Enterprise Solution Architect

**Opportunities in Large Deal Solution Architecture**

**Enterprise Solutions Architect
- Director level**

We are seeking a talented Solution Architect to join our growing Global Large Deals Architecture organization. In this role, you will be an integral part of the client service team, solutioning mid-size to large, multi-tower engagements across multiple business units.

The purpose of this role is to strategize, define and drive the enterprise/functional /technology solution roadmap for client requirements. He or she must have a balanced mix of technical and business skills and will often work with an enterprise architect or technical architects for strategic direction. The main focus is on the technical decisions being made regarding the solution and how they impact the business outcomes.

You will craft top-notch solutions for our clients’ transformation and outsourcing requirements. You will define and drive business-IT solutions that use innovative business processes, architectural and technical frameworks to provide client partners with viable, high value solutions to complex business problems. This elite opportunity requires prior professional experience as a solution architect, with a consistent track record of running and winning deals, and more importantly, a great passion for architecting complex IT solutions.
- Drive Solutioning for complex large deals (>35m USD) involving multiple service lines and technical disciplines as part of RFXs (RFI, RFP, RFQ, others), and informal deal processes.
- Work closely with clients, intermediaries and internal Cognizant technical domain authorities to build high impact solutions
- Define solution vision and direction building on commonalities and benefits across lines of business and technologies
- Good track record of winning large deals

Anchor solution and strategy discussions with CxOs and Business Leaders
- Lead a multi-functional team of solution architects across their respective domains.
- Envision a transformation roadmap that aligns with the strategic and tactical direction of the partner client
- Drive the translation of complex business initiatives into creative and innovate business-technology solutions and ensure consistency across traditional solution boundaries
- Coordination with all stakeholders (sales, solutions, operations, change management, pricing, transition, facilities et al) to ensure timely and high-quality proposal & response submission to clients
- Lead, and contribute, towards the design, development, and implementation of winning technical estimation and solutions for customers
- Creation and maintain effective knowledge management system to support all the solutioning phase of the deal lifecycle
- Design technology solution that aligns with the larger engagement model across towers and jointly build engagement level transformation themes

**Required Capabilities/Skills /Years of Experience**
- BTech/MTech in computer science or equivalent experience or MBA in Technology
- Experience in technical delivery, sales, and business development
- Good knowledge of technology areas like Cloud, IoT, Platforms, Analytics, AI/ML, and Gen AI
- Tier-I professional services background
- 18+ years’ experience in a IT Service Delivery/Consulting and Enterprise Solutions Architect role, with a minimum of 2 years’ experience in at least two of the following: Digital Transformation, M&A / Large outsourcing, Applications Development & Modernization, Cloud Transformation, Applications/Infrastructure Architecture, Data Architecture, Systems Integration
- Proven experience planning, designing, and implementing large scale business-IT solutions.
- Ability to present complex delivery and technical concepts to the clients during white-boarding and orals sessions
- Technology domain expertise and understanding of the various functions and regulations governing industry in complex engagements
- Hands-on experience with responding to complex RFP, RFI, Pricing, Estimation and SOW, proposal.
- Experience in managing DevSecOps / Agile delivery would be a plus
- Deep understanding of industry trends, concepts, opportunities, threats & constraints
- Ability to operate with ambiguity and program manage the solution build process
- Extraordinary communication and relationship building skills.
- Strong leadership skills, decision-making and problem solving abilities.