Principal Architect
Qualification:
Science / Engineering graduateResponsibility:
Innovation and Thought Leadership:
- Participate in external forums (seminars, paper presentation etc) to showcase Cognizant capabilities and insights.
- Interact and engage with customers/ partners around new innovative ideas, concepts, assets.
- as well as industry trends and implications.
- Participate in Beta testing of products / joint lab setup with customer to explore application of new technologies / products.
- Identify areas where components/accelerators or design patterns could be reused across different accounts.
- Create documents, reports, white papers (international/national) on the research findings.
Technology Consulting:
- Define Problem statement for the customer.
- Analyze application/ technology landscape, process, tools and arrive at the solution options best fit for the client.
- Analyze Cost Vs Benefits of solution options.
- Define the technology/ architecture roadmap for the client.
- Articulate the cost vs benefits of options to key stakeholders in customer.
Alliance Management:
- Identify alliance partners based on the understanding of service offerings and client requirements.
- Identify areas for joint GTM with the partner.
- Develop internal capabilities/complementary toolsets to support the GTM strategy.
- Maintain the relationship with partners.
- Act as the Cognizant technical POC for the specific technology/solution area.
Knowledge Management & Capability Development:
- Provide inputs to teams for training etc.
- Identify the training needs and conduct internal sessions to meet the same.
- Partner with Cognizant academy to Create curriculum, assessments, training programs, courseware based on new service offerings / solutions etc.
- Update collateral on to the knowledge management repository.
- Gain and cultivate domain expertise to provide best and optimized solution to customer.
Project Control and Review:
- Perform architecture design review.
- Identify opportunities for optimization of cost / time / asset utilization in complex projects and advise relevant teams accordingly where possible.
- Provide advice to teams facing complex technical issues in the course of project delivery.
- Conduct planned and unplanned technical audits for complex projects as applicable.
- 'Define and measure project /program specific architectural and technology quality metrics.
- Review outputs to ensure NFRs are met.
People Management:
- Provide support to various project managers in identification of training needs of their subordinates.
- Conduct training / certifications with the help of academy and mentoring with respect to technical skills on projects.
- Support technical evaluation of external and internal candidates to meet project requirements.
- Perform career guidance and performance management for team members.
Asset Development and Governance:
- Provide thought leadership in conceptualizing the need and design of assets.
- Track implementation of assets.
- Improve asset effectiveness.
- Improve deployment effectiveness.
Sales Support and Project Estimation:
- Develop collaterals for proposals.
- Conduct workshops at the client site to assist the sales team in sales support , if required.
- Compare various designs and propose appropriate technology solutions based on the understanding of the RFP and inputs from Architects.
- Calculate and present estimates based on high level designs to management for supporting in go/ nogo decisions.
- Review estimations and resource plan.
- Review risk and mitigation plan.
- Anchor proposal development with crosslinkages across multiple competency units & arrive at a coherent solution, unique value propositions and clear differentiators.
- Participate in client presentation and client visits.
New Service Design:
- Identify potential opportunities for new service offerings based on customer voice/ partner inputs / industry connects and trends.
- Support the development of business case for investments for approval from senior management.
- Work with partners to codevelop a joint GTM (as applicable).
- Develop IP/tools and framework to address the opportunity technically.
- Conduct beta testing / POC as applicable.
- Develop collaterals, guides for GTM.
Requirement gathering and Analysis:
- Understand the requirements from a larger system / transformation program context.
- Validate the cross application / cross technology requirements to ensure integrate ability and reconciliation of conflicting requirements, by working with customers and other stakeholders.
Solution Definition & Design:
- Ensure alignment of the highlevel architecture with the existing client need and business logic / review design prepared by architects.
- Ensure the involvement of right teams in solution design.
- Ensure tec hnical integrate ability, requirements compliance of the solution, especially in case of a multi group / multi vendor program.
- Involve external partners / horizontals as appropriate.
- Provide guidance to solution architect around usage of patterns/anti patterns in the solution.
- Ensure CTS architecture principles and QOA(Quality of Architecture) are maintained.
- Analyze tradeoffs and provide recommendations, if any, on the solution architecture.
- Identify opportunities for efficiency improvements (eg, automation), risk reduction in the transformation process.
- Understand the various work streams and the technologies necessary to deliver on large programs.
- Resolve any issues based on industry expertise / partners leverage.
- Provide best in class technology and solution options to customers with detailed examples and case studies.
- Guide customer on process and technology improvements to achieve agility and quick results.
Stakeholder Management:
- Build credibility with the client as a technical goto person.
- Work to expand professional network in the client organization.
Project Management Support:
- Proactive identification & management of technical risks.
Must Have Skills
- Domain knowledge
- Portfolio & Project mgmt (PPM)
- HL7
- EDI(Provider)
Good To Have Skills
- Domain