Cognizant

Principal Architect-Technology (BB-34E5A)

Found in: Talent IN

Description:

Principal Architect

Qualification:

Bachelor's in engineering or equivalent

Responsibility:

Solution Conceptualization:

  • 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 in 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.

    • Solution Definition:

  • Provide support during requirement gathering and analysis (technical perspective during downstream assessment) to other teams.
  • 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.

    • Solution Design:

  • 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 database 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.

    • Asset Development and Governance:

  • Track implementation of assets.
  • Assist in conducting audits.
  • In case of deviations, apprise relevant project managers of the same to drive effective implementation.
  • In case of any implementation challenges.
  • Identify the underlying cause and support technology teams in customization of asset to meet current needs of the organization.
  • Assist in analyzing metrics and feedback from project teams adopting designed assets.
  • Monitor asset effectiveness during realtime implementation.
  • Identify areas for improvement / customization and redesign asset based on analysis.
  • Share identified areas with Enterprise Architect for review.

    • 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.

    • Knowledge Management:

  • Keep abreast of the technology trends, industry best practices etc.
  • Publish white papers.
  • 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.
  • Build awareness of the knowledge repository among reporting teams.
  • Track contribution to knowledge management portal.
  • Update best practices, white papers, artifacts etc to the database on a regular basis.

    • People Management:

  • 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 .

    • Must Have Skills

  • Node js
  • MySQL

    • Good To Have Skills

  • ClearQuest

    • Employee Status : Full Time Employee

    Shift : Day Job

    Travel : No

    Job Posting : Mar 16 2021

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    location_on Chennai, India

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