Technology Architect

Qualification:

BE/ B Tech / Product certifications especially for Cloud products

Responsibility:

Design ▪ 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

SAP ISUtilities BRIMSAP Advance Order ManagementSAP Convergent InvoicingSAP Convergent ChargingE-Learning

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