Solution Architect Ii

Role Proficiency:
Outcomes:

- Senior Solutions Architect leads technical strategies and architectures as well as technical development for enterprise-wide large projects or systems using industry-standard integrated architecture models.
- Implement solution architecture by building components and custom designs and maintaining technical integrity
- Identify analyse recommend and implement improvements in system architectures
- Design and implement proof of concepts solution/architecture planning and custom demos
- Perform technical feasibility and impact analysis and select software architecture or solution
- Lead direct and participate in new technology adoption in ERP/CRM.
- Build strong internal or external customer relationships managing expectations at all levels
- Understanding of current operational frameworks and how their solutions will be managed through and after the implementation
- Accountable with deal pursuit to ensure that proposed solutions offer a winning value proposition playing a key role in the preparation of proposals
- Lead the due diligence phase of a pursuit and validate and revise the solution as necessary
- Supervise software architects to develop system recommendation documents by researching evaluating analyzing and selecting technology and infrastructure products functionality and features.
- Advise customer senior leaders on various software and technology solutions and business problems
- Analyse customer objectives and present a compelling solution
- Lead customer discovery and assessment meetings to identify business value and ROI for complex business problems
- Recommend best practices to customers and help with IT Strategy and implementation planning - capacity servers deployment etc.
- Define architecture for large engagements involving cluster of technologies and act as design authority for the engagement.
- Ensure technical quality of deliverables under his/her portfolio of projects with strict adherence to architecture principles and design standards.
- Conceptualize technical platform which address similar patterns of need for a domain or a horizontal segment.
- Provide conceptual solution model as part of pre-sales activities.
- Work on estimates vendor management partnership/license management.
- Pursuit of industry better practices across multiple accounts
- Mentor group of architects and support them in getting the right kind of exposure
- Set goals in NorthStar; timely measure the progress and update accordingly.

Measures of Outcomes:

- Number of applicable technical/domain certifications completed
- Number of mandatory trainings completed (Industry/technology specific UST mandatory trainings)
- Number of RFPs and estimations prepared in ERP/CRM Practice
- Number of technical sessions conducted within Practice for the benefit of peers and team members.
- Contribution to technology capability development (e.g. Training Webinars Blogs)
- Customer feedback on overall technical quality (zero technology related escalations)
- Business Development (number of proposals contributed to as applicable)
- Number of design patterns / components reused / created
- Number of consulting assignments led/participated
- Number of white papers / document assets
- Breadth of technology knowledge (no. of technologies)
- Conceptualizing ideas for ERP/CRM Practice.
- Number of technology training/webinars conducted within UST

Outputs Expected:
Solution Definition & Design:

- Define solution architecture models by leveraging latest architectural paradigms better suited to customer needs Define Architecture Principle & Patterns for engagement.
- Adopt appropriate technical stack.
- Ensure complete adherence to Adopted Architecture Principles & Design Standards and applicable regulatory mandates.
- Guide technical team in adoption of principle and pattern and also technical stack.
- Perform architecture and design review using industry standard methodologies.
- Partner with appropriate stakeholders in multi-vendor environment to ensure successful delivery of overall solution.
- Define non-functional requirements to ensure solution’s ability to meet the same at various stages of development.
- Resolve any issues based on industry expertise / partners leverage

Asset Development and Governance:

- Provide thought leadership in conceptualizing the need and design of assets.
- Track implementation of assets.
- Improve asset effectiveness.
- Improve deployment effectiveness.

Knowledge Management & Capability Development:

- Identify training needs of associates within his/her vertical/horizontal.
- Gain and cultivate domain expertise to provide best and optimized solution to customer
- Mentor group of Architects.

Innovation and Thought Leadership:

- Incubate new concepts in partnership with customer or third party like Product Partners
Universities
others.
- Evangelize the adoption of newer architecture paradigms and products within vertical or across organization.
- Promotion of re