Technology Specialist

Architect

Qualification:

Science / Engineering graduate

Responsibility:

Technology Consulting:

• • Provide data to senior team members during consulting engagements.

• • Create documents (eg pre consulting 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 non functional requirement.

• • Collect non functional 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 sub components /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 come up 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 home grown) 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.