Principal Technology Architect

Qualification:
BE/ B Tech/MCA

Responsibility:
Design
• • Endtoend responsibility of designing and architecting technology solutions.
• Coding.
• • Develop architecture and coding standards, review processes as well as project specific templates.
• Deployment Support and Closure.
• • Assist and advise for general troubleshooting of platform and applications.
• Knowledge Management.
• • Identifies new Technologies Standards, Best Practices.
• • Advocate and define cloud architecture vision from a strategic perspective, including internal and external platforms, tools, and systems.
• • Develop a repository of technical solutions, technical best practices and design/coding guidelines/standards.
• • Conduct and facilitate knowledge sharing and learning sessions across the team.
• • Track contribution to knowledge management portal.
• Update best practices, white papers, artifacts etc to the database on a regular basis.
• • Publish white papers.
• • Define... execute and continuously improve internal software architecture processes and technology recommendations.
• • Certified in one or many of the EAS function areas.
• Training and Recruitment / People Management.
• • Assist and guide senior managers and teams in developing highly scalable, reliable and secure solutions.
• • Participate in senior level talent selection.
• • Set clear and objective goals for team & Conduct appraisals.
• • Identify, priorities and deploy action items for competency development.
• • Review progress on employee engagement activities in the architecture track.
• • Direct and guide other managers/team leaders on resolving employee complaints.
• • Identify, groom, reward and develop high performers and future leaders.
• • Mentor all architects in the EAS function.
• Project Planning and Set up.
• • Conduct project estimations by analyzing business requirements.
• • Identify or build templates to conduct project estimations.
• • Review all estimates as created by the architect(s).
• • Articulate estimation methodology and module level estimations (with focus on effort estimation) for projects / assignments with higher complexity, risks and dependencies.
• • Provide inputs and support to project / program management for project estimates.
• • Identify “road blocks” during solution implementation and provide mitigation.
• Requirement Gathering and Analysis.
• • Provide support during requirement gathering and analysis (technical perspective during downstream assessment) to the teams.
• • Understand business processes, cases and functions.
• • Understand business problem and impact.
• Analyze existing enterprise architecture.
• Solution Conceptualization.
• • Lead development of enterprisewide technology on premise or cloudbased architectures.
• • Good knowledge about known architectures and solution frameworks as well as usage of modelling technique.
• • Develop solutions architecture and evaluate architectural alternatives for private, public and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services.
• • Study industry trends to remain aware of technology trends.
• • Understand internal/external requirements.
• • Analyze the need for POC based on the strategic roadmap laid out by the enterprise architect.
• • Provide guidance to architects to evaluate various products/ technologies suited for the solution.
• • Review the solution prepared by other architects.
• Ensure that the solution fits holistically in the overall Enterprise Architecture design and does not violate architecture principles.
• • Conduct economic analysis of architecture.
• Provide support to other teams for building case for PoC to senior management in terms of current organizational need and potential benefits.
• • Define technical software architectures to drive business and technology strategies.
• Solution Definition and Design.
• • Formulate conceptual architectures and communicate architectural vision, goals and design objectives to multiple audiences.
• • Provide guidance to solution architect around usage of patterns/anti patterns in the solution.
• • Rephrase the solution if required to minimize the risk of solution.
• • Ensure CTS architecture principles and QOA(Quality of Architecture) are maintained.
• • Analyze tradeoffs and provide recommendations, if any, on the solution architecture.
• Understand business processes, cases and functions.
• Understand business problem and impact.
• Analyze existing enterprise architecture and evaluate other technology/ frameworks.
• • Understand requirement, analyze feasibility and provide recommendation.
• • Provide support in creation of functional design, logical design, test design and design overview document.
• Project Support.
• • Conduct planned and unplanned audits for complex projects.
• • Perform architecture design review.
• Identify opportunities for optimization of cost / time / asset utilization in complex projects and advise relevant teams accordingly where possible.
• • Manage stakeholder perception.
• Provide advice to teams facing complex technical issues in the course of project delivery.
• • Review design artifacts and code as created by developers / senior developers to ensure it meets architectural requirements, quality and on time delivery.
• • Track various quality metrics around architecture, design and code.
• • Perform codenizant audits for other projects as appropriate to ensure Codenizant principles are implemented.
• • Review all outputs across all SDLC phases from design to testing to ensure NFRs are met.
• • Provide support and technical governance, expertise related to cloud architectures, deployment, and operations.
• Business Development Support.
• • Scan the market and identify new technology areas which can be adopted in Cognizant.
• • Identify new clients or new needs in the existing clients and share suggestions with Enterprise / Solution Architects.
• • Develop collaterals for proposals.
• • Participate in discussion for client proposals.
• • Provide support for developing RFPs.
• Participate in industry seminars/ conference, if required, to share knowledge and build Cognizant brand.
• • Conduct occasional training session and participate in various consultancy, presales and bid defense meetings.
• Alliance Management.
• • Identify alliance partners based on the understanding of service offerings and client requirements.
• • Identify areas for joint GTM with the partner.
• • Develop internal capabilities/complementary toolsets to support the GTM strategy.
• • Maintain the relationship with partners.
• • Act as the Cognizant technical POC for the specific technology/solution area.

Must Have Skills
• SAP CO
• SAP FICO
• Manufacturing Oper-Manlog

Good To Have Skills
• Account & Delivery Management
• SAP S4 hana
Kuala Lumpur Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

Salary Criteria