Sr. Associate - Projects

Architect

Qualification:

Science / Engineering graduate

Responsibility:

Technology Consulting:

• Provide data to senior team members during consulting engagements.

• Create documents (eg preconsulting deck, recommendation deck etc) to be used during engagements.

• Analyze technology landscape, process, tools based on project objectives.

'Knowledge Management & Capability Development:

• Conduct technical trainings/ Webinars to impart knowledge to relevant application development/ project teams.

• Create collaterals (eg case study, business value documents, summary etc).

• Post in Blogs / interviews to share expertise.

• Gain industry standard certifications on technology and architecture consulting.

• Contribute to knowledge repository and tools.

• Partner with Cognizant academy to create curriculum, assessments etc and conduct training.

• Organize project level KT sessions for new team members.

'Requirement gathering and Analysis':

• Understand the functional and nonfunctional requirement.

• Collect nonfunctional requirements (such as response time, throughput numbers, user load, etc) through discussions with SMEs, business users.

Solution Definition & Design:

• Prepare low level design and common frameworks.

• Identify and conduct design of complex subcomponents /module in collaboration with project team, architects and client SME.

• Present the detailed design documents to relevant stakeholders and seek feedback.

• Undertake project specific Proof of Concepts activities to validate technical feasibility with guidance from the Application Architect.

• Support performance testing and resolve deadlocks on NFRs by implementing the best optimized solution and resolve performance issues.

Project Management Support:

• Share technical inputs from project planning perspective with Test Lead/Architect.

• Help project managers to understand the technical risks and comeup with mitigation strategies.

Business and Technical Research:

• Understand application architecture and its criticality.

• Analyze and assess tools (internal/external) on specific parameters.

• Support Architect/Sr Architect in drafting recommendations based on findings of Proof Of Concept.

• Analyze the market trends and identify new developments in existing technologies (eg methodologies, frameworks, accelerators etc).

• Document these new developments (eg report, white paper, national/ international publications) in order to build team capabilities.

Testing Support:

• Suggest test automation strategies using appropriate frameworks like JUnit/NUnit/Selenium as appropriate.

Process Improvements / Delivery Excellence:

• 'Identify avenues to improve project delivery parameters (e.

• g.

• productivity, efficiency, process, security etc.

• ) by leveraging tools, automation etc.

• Understand various technical tools used in the project (third party as well as homegrown) to improve efficiency , productivity.

Project Estimation:

• Provide support for project estimations in terms of review and validation for projects of lower complexity based on analyzing business requirements (eg component level estimation).

• Articulate estimation methodology, module level estimations for more standard projects with focus on effort estimation alone.

'Audit:

• Conduct cross project technical audits and reviews, as required to check adherence to architecture, design and coding best practices.

• Perform codenizant audits for other projects as appropriate to ensure Codenizant principles are implemented.

Proposal Development:

• Contribute to proposal development [of small to medium size projects from technology/architecture perspective.