Manager - Projects

Sr Technology Architect

Qualification:

Engineering Degree

Responsibility:

Enterprise Asset Assessment:

• Understand trends in client requirements and identify opportunities to enhance CTS capabilities across different functional areas (technology / infrastructure).

• Evaluate various options and provide inputs in developing blueprint of different enterprise assets from a technology stack perspective.

Solution Conceptualization:

• Study industry trends to remain aware of technology and infrastructure trends.

• Understand internal/external requirements and analyze the need for POC/POT.

• Evaluate various technologies suited for the solution.

• Provide support to other teams for building case for PoC/PoT to senior management in terms of current organizational need and potential benefits.

Solution Definition and Design:

• Provide support during requirement gathering and analysis (technical and infrastructure perspective during downstream assessment) to other teams.

• Interact with client is required to understand their requirements.

• Interact with domain/ product architects and other teams to analyze architectural options for any given solution.

• Analyze tradeoffs and provide recommendations, if any, on the solution architecture.

• Collaborate with delivery team to develop HLD/ functional design Create infrastructure architecture for project based on the requirements.

• Provide solutions from an infrastructure perspective.

• Prepare Proof of Technology.

• Conduct hardware sizing based on non functional requirements.

• Support the team in deployment of the solution.

• Seek inputs on design created from various stakeholders and incorporate relevant changes to design solution.

Project Support:

• Conduct planned and unplanned audits.

• Guide teams in creation of detailed architecture design (database/application).

• Perform architecture design review.

• Identify opportunities for optimization of cost / time / asset utilization in specific projects and advise relevant teams accordingly where possible.

• Interact with clients to provide clarifications and address their queries.

• Manager stakeholder perception.

• Provide advice to teams facing complex technical issues in the course of project delivery.

• Provide technical solutions based on expertise or past experience.

• Provide various possibilities for delivery team to test solution proposed.

Asset Development and Governance:

• Share ideas with Enterprise Architect and team on new assets that can be developed.

• Identify technical challenges that arise during the development of enterprise assets and plan for the same.

• Track utilization of reusable assets / architecture components across the organization.

• Share the utilization report with Enterprise Architect.

• Assist in analyzing metrics and feedback from project teams adopting designed assets.

• Monitor asset effectiveness during realtime implementation.

Business Development Support:

• Scan the market and identify new technology areas which can be adopted in Cognizant.

• Identify new clients or new needs in the existing clients and share suggestions with Enterprise / Solution Architects.

• Develop collaterals for proposals.

• Participate in discussion for client proposals.

• Provide support for developing RFPs.

• Participate in industry seminars/ conference, if required, to share knowledge and build Cognizant brand Calculate and present hardware sizing estimates to management for supporting in go/nogo decisions.

Knowledge Management:

• Publish white papers.

• Maintain a repository of technical solutions, technical best practices and design/coding guidelines/standards.

• Conduct and facilitate knowledge sharing and learning sessions across the team.

• Build awareness of the knowledge repository among other teams.

• Update best practices, white papers, artifacts etc to the database on a regular basis.

Training & Mentoring:

• Provide support in creation of training courses and supporting artifacts on the training server such as demo, presentation.

• Conduct training with the help of academy and mentoring with respect to infrastructure and technology.

• Mentor new entrants in EAS function on an ongoing basis.

• Provide support to various project managers in identification of training needs of their subordinates.