This is a business & technology facing role, mapping business process to capabilities, providing E2E solution for the prioritized features, ensuring flexible and global system/capability design and 1-2 year capability roadmap including performance, availability and test automation. The role involves working with product managers, business managers and engineering leaders to convert the business idea/vision into a development roadmap.
The incumbent will also be responsible day to day solution management cadence in Agile framework across products and processes. Requires strong organizational, technical and creative problem-solving skills. Requires strong stakeholder management and ability to influence across multiple levels of leadership. Must work well in a dynamic, complex environment and under deadline pressures. Propagates architectural flows and governance to a set of scrum teams to deploy the new business features across products for.
- Run solution management cadence including partners (Product Development, Technology, and business teams) to identify needs, opportunities, and gaps, and solve problems.
- Create architectural artifacts (process flows and diagrams) for business initiatives to ensure consistency across products, help in evaluating and configuring new products.
- Consolidate and correlate disconnected business needs, processes and identify synergies to avoid redundant design and build.
- Communicate solution architecture details and roadmap to scrum teams who in-turn will translate them into user stories and deployment plan.
- Demonstrate a solid understanding of the business process, drivers for change and recommend the right solution.
- Maintain the inventory and knowledge base on business processes, business capabilities and technical components along with other architectural artifacts e.g. data architecture, application architecture.
- Brainstorm and negotiate effectively with various stakeholders to continuously come up with best design.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Over all 10+ years of experience.
- 3-5 years of Java Solution architecture experience
- 3-5 years in agile product development and delivery
- A good balance of business acumen and technical knowledge with a proven track record of driving digital innovation and architecture with a customer-first mindset.
- An established background in launching software or services in partnership with engineering teams and high degree of proficiency in prototyping, iterative development, Agile Framework and principles.
- Enthusiasm and passion for building great products and services and an ability to articulate product functionality.
- Understanding of the evolving compliance and regulatory requirements and environment and how to incorporate technology, infrastructure and security requirements into the product design.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage, influence, and inspire partners to drive collaboration and alignment.
- High degree of organization, individual initiative and personal accountability.
- An ability to solve complex problems and a highly analytical approach.