Solution Architect
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Part of the solution development team, you will be responsible for translating the functional requirements into the architecture for the solution. Your process involves selecting the most appropriate technologies and options based on the requirements. You will ensure the solution architecture aligns with enterprise architecture roadmaps and adheres to enterprise architecture principles.
Responsibilities
Candidates can look forward to regular client contact and a broad set of responsibilities below-
- Designing and architecting the product/solution;
- Ensuring customer requirements are translated into functional specifications and detailed level designs;
- Ensuring the product/solution architecture is scalable and extensible;
- Driving the adoption of best practices around coding, design, quality and performance;
- Constantly upgrading the product with evolving technology and customer requirements;
- Leading in design, specification and selection of IT solutions, giving due consideration to functionality, data, security, integration, infrastructure and performance;
- Partner with our customers to identify the best customized solution that meets their requirements in terms of RPA strategy at an enterprise level;
- Leading the organization in exploiting technology and using knowledge of IT solutions to drive organization change and to support business process design;
- Supporting the development team in developing solutions;
- Estimating costs and preparing business cases for IT solutions, giving due consideration to infrastructure, licensing, development and support;
- Working with the project team to develop high level project schedule and resource plans for implementation;
- Providing pre-sales support to the sales team during RFI/RFP and PoC stages, including the drafting of RFI/RFP responses.
Skills/Experience
- Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science or Engineering;
- Minimum 3 years experience in a professional senior technical role (e.g. technical lead, team lead or architect), ideally for a system integrator;
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to lay audiences;
- Self-starter with the ability to prioritize and plan complex work in a rapidly changing environment;
- Results oriented with ability to produce products/solutions that deliver organizational benefit;
- Strong critical thinker with problem solving aptitude;
- Team player with experience leading and collaborating cross-team to ensure successful delivery of solutions;
- Strong conceptual and analytical skills with demonstrated outside-the-box problem solving skills;
- Strategic business acumen and understanding of organization strategy with ability to design IT solutions to deliver that strategy;
- Ability to develop solution architecture designs;
- Exposure to a wide variety of technology problems and their solutions;
- Experience in assessing a broad range of IT solutions particularly in infrastructure design, ERP, CRM, Network and Security;
- Experience in programming (VB, C#, .NET, C++, etc) is a must;
- Working knowledge of infrastructure including servers, storage, firewalls, load balancers, routers, switches, etc;
- Working knowledge of one or more of the following – Amazon Web Services (EC2/EBS), Microsoft Azure Infrastructure, Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud/Cisco UCS Director and vmWare vCloud Director/vmWare vSphere;
- Qualifications in Enterprise Architecture (e.g. TOGAF) is an advantage;
- Familiarity with RPA tools like UiPath, Automation Anywhere, BluePrism or other tools is a must.
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