Sr. Associate - Projects

Architect

Qualification:

Bachelors in science , engineering or equivalent

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 (eg 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.

• • 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.

• 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].