Architect Ii

Role Proficiency:
Design and implement Infrastructure/Cloud Architecture for a mid to large size projects

Outcomes:

- Design and Develop the architecture; the technical owner for projects
- Provide technical expertise across the practice
- Managing a significant stream of work independently; where required lead small technical team.
- Own / Resolve architectural issues spanning across multiple technologies
- Responsible for architectural frameworks; recommending tools relevant to the project

Measures of Outcomes:

- # of reusable components / processes developed # of times components / processes reused
- Contribution to technology capability development (e.g. Training Webinars Blogs)
- Customer feedback on overall technical quality (zero technology related escalations)
- Relevant Technology certifications
- Business Development (# of proposals contributed to # Won)
- # white papers/document assets published / working prototypes

Outputs Expected:
Solution Definition & Design:

- Define Architecture for mid to large size projects
- Design the technical framework and implement the same
- Present the detailed design documents to relevant stakeholders and seek feedback
- Undertake project specific Proof of Concepts activities to validate technical feasibility with guidance from the Senior Architect
- Implement best optimized solution and resolve any performance issues

Requirement gathering and Analysis:

- Understand the functional and non-functional requirements
- Collect non-functional requirements through discussions with SME and business users
- Identify technical aspects as part of story definition
especially at an architecture / component level

Project Management Support:

- Share technical input to Project Managers/ SCRUM Master
- Help SCRUM Masters / Project Managers understand the technical risks and come-up with mitigation strategies
- Help Associates and Leads overcome technical challenges

Technology Consulting:

- Analysis of technology landscape
process
tools based on project objectives
- Work on Due Diligence
Assessment projects

Business and Technical Research:

- Analyse and assess tools (internal/external) within specific parameters
- Prepare recommendations based on findings of Proof of Concept
- Analyse and identify new tools etc (e.g. methodologies
frameworks
accelerators
etc.)
- Develop outcome-based solutions
market entry strategies/ based on analysis of technology and industry trends assessment.
- Participate in customer visits

Project Estimation:

- Provide support for project estimations for business proposals and support sprint level / component level estimates
- Articulate estimation methodology
module level estimations for more standard projects with focus on effort estimation alone

Proposal Development:

- Contribute to proposal development from technology/architecture perspective
- Participate in client engagements (pursuits
projects
discussions); own the solution from a technical point of view. Assist in running client workshops

Knowledge Management & Capability Development:

- Conduct technical trainings/ Webinars to impart knowledge to CIS / project teams
- Create collaterals (e.g. case study
business value documents
summary
etc.)
- Gain industry standard certifications on technology and architecture consulting
- Contribute to knowledge repository and tools
- Creating reference architecture model
reusable components from the project
- Contribute to thought leadership through UST journals

Process Improvements / Delivery Excellence:

- Identify avenues to improve project delivery parameters (e.g. productivity
efficiency
process
security
etc.) by leveraging tools
automation
etc.
- Understand various technical tools used in the project (third party as well as home-grown) to improve efficiency and productivity

Alliance Management:

- Identify alliance partners based on the understanding of service offerings and client requirements
specific to program
- In collaboration with senior architects create a compelling business case around the offerings
- Conduct beta testing of the offerings with relevance to program

Skill Examples:

- Use Industry Knowledge to understand business requirements create POC to meet business requirements under guidance
- Use technical knowledge to analyse technology based on client's specific requirement analyse and understand existing implementations work on technology implementations (POC) guide the developers and enable them in the implementation
- Use knowledge of Architecture Concepts and Principles to provide input to the senior architects towards building component solutions. Deploy the solution as per the architecture under guidance
- Use Tools and Principles to create low level design for the given business requirements
- Use Estimation and Resource Planning knowledge to help estimate and plan resources for specific mid-sized projects with detailed requirements in place
- Use Knowledge Management Tools & Techniques to participate in the kno