Mainframe Solution Architect

**JD for Mainframe Pre-sales Senior Solution Architect (Infrastructure)**

**Job Location**
- Preferred**:Bangalore**, India (Optional - Pune/Chennai/Hyderabad/Noida)

**Band**
- C2

**Primary Skills**
- This position requires 12+ years of Mainframe IT Infrastructure Services experience.
- Comprehensive solution design and architecting experience for IBM Mainframe and underlying technologies.
- ** Prior working experience or related as Mainframe solution Architect/ Pre-Sales Solution Architect with large IT Service firms or top consulting companies is desirable.**:

- Must have exposure to the Design, Build and Run phase of Datacenter engagements specifically Datacenter migrations related to Mainframe platform.
- Requires working with the sales/presales/account team to create opportunities and development of solutions.
- Should have the ability to envision and solution for **Mainframe modernization overall with specific focus on infrastructure components.**:

- Ability to paint a transformational end state roadmap for the client’s Mainframe estate.
- Lead discussions with client and jointly work out best fit strategy and roadmap on the Mainframe legacy architecture - ability to drive the client through discussions on their Mainframe modernization journey
- Experience in delivery of Mainframe infrastructure projects will be a value add.

**Secondary Skills**
- Experience in IBM i (AS400/iSeries) and AIX environments will be an added advantage.
- Understanding of Midrange cloud solutioning such as Skytap, PowerVS.

**Role Purpose**

The purpose of the role is to create exceptional architectural solution design and thought leadership and enable delivery teams to provide exceptional client engagement and satisfaction.

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**Do**:

- ** Develop architectural solutions for the new deals/ major change requests in existing deals**:

- Creates an enterprise-wide architecture that ensures systems are scalable, reliable, and manageable.
- Provide solutioning of RFP’s received from clients and ensure overall design assurance
- Analyse technology environment, enterprise specifics, client requirements to set a collaboration solution design framework/ architecture
- Provide technical leadership to the design, development and implementation of custom solutions through thoughtful use of modern technology
- Define and understand current state solutions and identify improvements, options & tradeoffs to define target state solutions
- Clearly articulate, document and sell architectural targets, recommendations and reusable patterns and accordingly propose investment roadmaps
- Evaluate and recommend solutions to integrate with overall technology ecosystem
- Works closely with various IT groups to transition tasks, ensure performance and manage issues through to resolution
- Perform detailed documentation (App view, multiple sections & views) of the architectural design and solution mentioning all the artefacts in detail
- Validate the solution/ prototype from technology, cost structure and customer differentiation point of view
- Identify problem areas and perform root cause analysis of architectural design and solutions and provide relevant solutions to the problem
- Collaborating with sales, program/project, consulting teams to reconcile solutions to architecture

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- Provides technical and strategic input during the project planning phase in the form of technical architectural designs and recommendation
- Collaborates with all relevant parties in order to review the objectives and constraints of solutions and determine conformance with the Enterprise Architecture
- Identifies implementation risks and potential impacts
- ** Enable Delivery Teams by providing optimal delivery solutions/ frameworks**
- Build and maintain relationships with executives, technical leaders, product owners, peer architects and other stakeholders to become a trusted advisor
- Develops and establishes relevant technical, business process and overall support metrics (KPI/SLA) to drive results
- Manages multiple projects and accurately reports the status of all major assignments while adhering to all project management standards
- Identify technical, process, structural risks and prepare a risk mitigation plan for all the projects
- Ensure quality assurance of all the architecture or design decisions and provides technical mitigation support to the delivery teams
- Recommend tools for reuse, automation for improved productivity and reduced cycle times
- Leads the development and maintenance of enterprise framework and related artefacts
- Develops trust and builds effective working relationships through respectful, collaborative engagement across individual product teams
- Ensures architecture principles and standards are consistently applied to all the projects
- Ensure optimal Client Engagement
- Support pre-sales team while presenting the entire solution design and its principles to the client
- Negotiate, manage and coordinate with the clie