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.

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Do

1.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

- 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

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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

2.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

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3.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 Wipro’s 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

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4.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