Solution Architect

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.

Do

• 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

  1. 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

  2. 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

1. Define and understand current state solutions and identify improvements, options & tradeoffs to define target state solutions

2. Clearly articulate, document and sell architectural targets, recommendations and reusable patterns and accordingly propose investment roadmaps

3. 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

1. Validate the solution/ prototype from technology, cost structure and customer differentiation point of view

2. Identify problem areas and perform root cause analysis of architectural design and solutions and provide relevant solutions to the problem

3. 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

1. Provides technical and strategic input during the project planning phase in the form of technical architectural designs and recommendations

2. Collaborates with all relevant parties in order to review the objectives and constraints of solutions and determine conformance with the Enterprise Architecture.

3. Identifies implementation risks and potential impacts.