Sr. Associate - Chennai, India - Cognizant Technology Solutions

Description

Functional Architect

Qualification:

Responsibility:

• ? Contribute to Account Mining & Penetration efforts with active participation in customer planning process, including strategic planning phase vs execution phase.
• ? Drive RFP Response & Improving Quality of Response (more business value focused), structures solutions in terms of scoping, effort.
• ? Work with SME groups across domains/products to provide a complete end to end solution, including estimates and definition of critical factors, assumptions, and risks.
• ? Contribute to transformational and consulting deals vs staff augmentation.
• ? Drive oral presentations to the customers in area of domain/product expertise.
• ? Support revenue generation and be considered a FINDER.
• Market Scan and Brand Building.
• ? Bring working knowledge of customer business domain and/or product within a specific industry vertical/domain.
• ? Conduct secondary research on domain/industry specific solutions.
• ? Bring an understanding of competitive landscape.
• Identify key trends and forecasts in the given area of domain/industry.
• ? Prepare collateral, publications, technology papers etc for distribution.
• ? Work with account teams to develop and deliver new logos.
• Opportunity Identification.
• ? Work on opportunity identification, prioritization and input to the qualification process.
• ? Contribute to GTM activities with partners, vendors, industry analysts etc through active mindshare gain Webinars, White papers, speaking events etc.
• Knowledge Management.
• ? Contribute to TL, Design, PoVs, tools, templates, case studies etc artifacts into the knowledge management repository.
• ? Ensure all engagement artifacts are stored on knowledge repositories.
• Conduct quality review of KM artifacts prior to posting.
• Requirement Gathering and Gap Analysis.
• ? 'Lead Requirement Gathering Workshops.
• ? Lead FitGap exercise and come up with the FitGap document.
• ? Come up with high level solution for identified gaps.
• ? Present FitGap Assessment of a process area based on his/her area of expertise.
• Project Support.
• ? Active involvement and ownership of The Requirements and Solution.
• ? Design Phase of small to medium sized delivery engagements.
• ? Creating business blueprint for small to medium sized engagements.
• ? Identifying gaps and recommending development/process changes.
• ? Validate system configuration design, creation of test scenarios, migration plans.
• ? Provide engagement oversight in areas of specialization as and when called upon.
• ? Monitor AVM SLAs, address ticket resolution escalations, and drive bestinclass process adaptation.
• ? Client Expectation Management.
• ? Deliver and measure value pre, during, & post delivery engagements.
• ? Ensure client satisfaction.
• ? Help customers execute organizational change programs.
• ? Develop quality deliverables with focus on qualitative and quantitative business case, value props, roadmap, ROI analysis etc.
• Client Management/Relationship Management.
• ? Support brand building activities.
• ? Proactively develop relationships with functional owners from the business in a process area.
• ? Navigate client's organization to identify the right sponsors for a given solution.
• ? Support Expectation Management, Client Satisfaction Management, and Risk Management.
• ? Deliver and measure value pre, during, and post engagement and communicate to stakeholders.
• People Management.
• ? Active participation in recruitment activities identify and hire.
• ? Coaching & Mentoring functional leads.
• ? Conducting midyear and YEA feedback sessions.
• ? Goal and expectation setting for new and existing resources.
• ? Motivate through rewards and recognition, organize team events/initiatives.
• ? Conduct Performance Management Reviews.
• ? Demonstrate understanding and skillful handling of people issues.
• ? Identify skill gaps and create training courses around domain/product areas.
• ? Work with the Academy to plan the training calendar.
• Business Planning.
• ? Bring knowledge and understand trends, business/technology best practices, needs and guide/advise existing engagements/give inputs to planning process across people, process, technology and data solutions/recommendations in a particular functional area (domain/technology/product/ infrastructure).
• Solution Conceptualization.
• ? Identify pain areas, opportunities and potential solution offerings by industry/domain with business impact.
• ? contribute to new solution development, develop transformation tools and templates, productivity enhancement solutions/product ideation.
• ? Lead new solution offerings development by identifying/defining use cases, writing process blueprints and walkthroughs & collaborate with technology partners/support architects for offering development.
• ? Define and communicate business/technology solutions in language meaningful to stakeholders in the engagement, such as CBA, ROI, and IRR.

Must Have Skills

• Oracle Recruiting Cloud