Senior Associate - Hyderabad, India - Cognizant Technology Solutions

Description

Technology Architect

Qualification:

Responsibility:

• ? Understand various functional and non functional requirements.
• ? Break down the requirements into smaller modules.
• ? Apply knowledge of product provided frameworks for effective design.
• ? Provide inputs for categorizing critical and noncritical requirements.
• ? Develop proof of concept.
• ? Implement key integration patterns using relevant integration technology.
• ? Understand implications of performance and security in solutions.
• ? Provide inputs in designing end to end solution from a technical perspective.
• ? Review and approve system architecture design.
• ? Expert knowledge of development lifecycles such as Agile methodologies.
• ? Present the architecture to customers and seek signoff.
• ? Work on specific test cases for technology intensive modules such as multicloud integrations, cloud security.
• Coding.
• ? Analyze allocated task and understand BRD, low level and high level design.
• ? Allocate modules to developers for coding.
• ? Provide guidance to developers and set standards.
• ? Understand and educate the team on the database concepts.
• ? Write efficient queries and understand logical and physical data models ? Review pseudo codes written by developers and provide a go ahead for code development.
• ? Prepare for incremental code creation and unit testing.
• ? Oversee development process and update Project Manager on development progress.
• ? Identify future product version releases and implications on code.
• ? Use internal reusable components or vendor specified accelerators for coding.
• ? Review final codes written by developers on adherence to standards/functionality and approve for testing.
• follow up with Developers to ensure integration of components (input / output).
• ? Troubleshoot critical technical issues.
• ? Address and resolve escalations related to critical technical issues.
• ? Prepare weekly/monthly reports on the project and share with client/Project Manager.
• Ensure all system builds are prepared on time.
• Testing.
• ? Review test cases written by team Provide support for development of integration test cases as required.
• ? Participate in defect triage meetings with the team and identify actions to reduce defects.
• ? Include positive and negative test cases to check functionality.
• ? Check if peer review is completed at each step of test execution.
• ? Review, analyze and validate results.
• ? Follow up with team assigned for rework on code defects and close the same.
• align technical component testing with sprint methodologies of testing.
• ? Attend QA audits as and when required.
• ? Monitor system builds Signoff on test cases created by team.
• ? Discuss results / actions from NFR testing and signoff on the same for system testing / NFR.
• ? Collaborate with Cloud Success Managers on signoff of cloud custom components (as needed).
• ? Suggest and leverage automated testing tools for performance validation.
• Deployment Support and Closure.
• ? Create strategy for roll back.
• ? Conduct dry run on pilots.
• ? Monitor the processes are being followed.
• ? Document changes in the system.
• ? Resolve issues that arise during project deployment/ closure.
• ? Check that all action items mentioned in the deployment checklist have been completed.
• ? Post final acceptance, conduct all closure schedules.
• ? Provide support in creation of a final project report.
• ? Conduct handover to AVM team.
• ? Monitor all system/security administration activities and ensure all audit requirements are met.
• Service Support and Maintenance Release Management.
• ? Review incident/problem/change management plan created by team.
• ? Track issue/problem resolution.
• ? Conduct RCA.
• ? Define communication and issue resolution matrix.
• ? Drive and implement best practices for resolution of issues.
• ? Liaise with business users/SMEs to resolve issues if required.
• ? Review patch fixes created to prevent recurrence of complex problems ? Track adherence to SLAs.
• ? Guide team members in the course of incident/ problem management.
• ? Conduct change impact assessment.
• Collate change records.
• ? Share change records with relevant stakeholders.
• Knowledge Management.
• ? Create and update knowledge articles in the knowledge management repository.
• ? Provide guidance to team members to maintain all documentation related to project.
• ? Conduct KT sessions.
• ? Create knowledge articles on the problem, workaround solutions.
• Monitor and report the usage of knowledge articles.
• Maintain knowledge management database.
• Training and Recruitment / People Management.
• ? Provide assistance in selection of representative employee groups for training.
• ? Conduct training.
• Mentor team members in project teams with respect to product and domain skills on projects.
• ? Conduct technical, face to face interviews with candidates and support recruitment process.
• ? Set goals for team members and monitor performance.
• ? Coordinate with the project/program manager in understanding how the employee can better contribute to the project, seek feedback and address concerns.
• ? Conduct performance appraisal for team members.
• ? Organize team initiatives on a periodic basis.
• Project Planning and Set up.
• ? Understand resource plan.
• ? Plan for knowledge enrichment, change management and quality management.
• ? Conduct estimation of time utilization of different resources and activities ? Identify appropriate processes based on project landscape.
• ? Identify gaps and advise on improvements if required.
• ? Share inputs in creation of project plan with Project Manager.
• ? Review hardware/software requirement plan.
• ? Validate system build.
• Understand the test strategy, evaluate the design and identify gaps in the test plans, if any.
• ? Define KT plan.
• ? Customize project management system.
• ? Define standards and set Cognizant 20.
• ? Provide all support required during presales activities.
• Requirement Gathering and Analysis.
• ? Understand the requirements from clients/ functional consultants.
• ? Participate in client calls and seek clarifications.
• ? Relay information gathered to the team.
• ? Create a requirements traceability matrix.
• ? Provide inputs during creation of operational concepts and scenarios.
• ? Perform requirements feasibility with regards to testing and implementation.
• ? Identify interface touch points, interfaces, and services requirements.
• ? Analyze NFRs.
• Solution Conceptualization.
• ? Participate / collaborate with Technology specialists in building solution POCs for identified minor components.
• ? Document solution design sections assigned Ensure accelerators / reusables are leveraged in the solutions built.
• Solution Definition and Design.
• ? Provide support to specialists during requirement gathering (technical and infrastructure perspective during downstream assessment) to other teams.
• ? Interact with client to understand their requirements.
• ? Interact with domain/ product architects and provide requirements to design solution.
• ? Collaborate with delivery team to develop HLD/ functional design.
• ? Create infrastructure architecture for project based on the requirements.
• ? Collaborate with product infrastructure teams to raise timely requests for instances / infra availability.
• Project Support.
• ? Conduct technical reviews and audits for checklists and work packages ? Report weekly status and walkthrough to the Project Manager / Client.
• ? Followup with customer POC to resolve team issues and any other dependencies.
• ? Work with cloud infra providers to address issues relating to performance, scalability.
• ? Raise concerns regarding changes in timelines with Client and facilitate resolution.
• ? Measure and report the actual effort against the estimated effort and ensure task progress reporting in C20.
• ? Technical lead will also lead conversations with cloud product vendors on roadmap / architecture discussions as needed by clients.
• Asset Development and Governance.
• ? Share ideas with Technical specialist on opportunity areas for asset / reusable / tools development.
• ? Provide inputs into challenges faced during development.

Must Have Skills

• Salesforce Lightning Path
• S/4 HANA Data Modeling
• SAP HANA Performance Tuning
• Jira
• Billing&Accounting Management

Good To Have Skills

• SAP HANA XSA
• SAP HANA SDQ
• SAP HANA SDI
• SAP DWC
• HANA Spatial & Text Processing
• HANA Sizing
• HANA Security
• HANA Data Tiering
• HANA Cloud Data Lake
• Data Orchestration
• SAP HANA Data Provisioning
• SAP HANA SLT
• Odata
• HANA Stored Procs
• HANA SQL Scripts
• HANA Data Modeling
• Rest API
• Order Management(Tech)