Job Description :

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.

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 RFPs received from clients and ensure overall design assurance.

- Develop a direction to manage the portfolio of to-be-solutions including systems, shared infrastructure services, applications in order to better match business outcome objectives.

- 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.

- Tracks industry and application trends and relates these to planning current and future IT needs.

- 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 client teams to ensure all requirements are met and create an impact of solution proposed.

- Demonstrate thought leadership with strong technical capability in front of the client to win the confidence and act as a trusted advisor.

Competency Building and Branding :

- Ensure completion of necessary trainings and certifications.

- Develop Proof of Concepts (POCs),case studies, demos etc.

for new growth areas based on market and customer research.

- Develop and present a point of view of Wipro on solution design and architect by writing white papers, blogs etc.

- Attain market referencability and recognition through highest analyst rankings, client testimonials and partner credits.

- Be the voice of Wipros Thought Leadership by speaking in forums (internal and external).

- Mentor developers, designers and Junior architects in the project for their further career development and enhancement.

- Contribute to the architecture practice by conducting selection interviews etc.

Team Management :

Resourcing :

- Anticipating new talent requirements as per the market/ industry trends or client requirements.

- Hire adequate and right resources for the team.

Talent Management :

- Ensure adequate onboarding and training for the team members to enhance capability & effectiveness.

- Build an internal talent pool and ensure their career progression within the organization.

- Manage team attrition.

- Drive diversity in leadership positions.

Performance Management :

- Set goals for the team, conduct timely performance reviews and provide constructive feedback to own direct reports.

- Ensure that the Performance Nxt is followed for the entire team.

Employee Satisfaction and Engagement :

- Lead and drive engagement initiatives for the team.

- Track team satisfaction scores and identify initiatives to build engagement within the team