Wipro Limited is seeking a Solution Architect L1 to create exceptional architectural solution design and thought leadership, enable delivery teams to provide exceptional client engagement and satisfaction, and manage multiple projects while ensuring quality assurance of all architecture or design decisions.
Requirements
- Develop architectural solutions for new deals and major change requests
- Create an enterprise-wide architecture that ensures systems are scalable, reliable, and manageable
- Provide technical leadership to the design, development, and implementation of custom solutions
- Define and understand current state solutions and identify improvements, options, and tradeoffs
- Collaborate with sales, program/project, consulting teams to reconcile solutions to architecture
- Identify implementation risks and potential impacts
- Enable Delivery Teams by providing optimal delivery solutions/frameworks
- Build and maintain relationships with executives, technical leaders, product owners, peer architects, and other stakeholders
- Develop and establish relevant technical, business process, and overall support metrics (KPI/SLA) to drive results
- Manage multiple projects and accurately report the status of all major assignments
- Identify technical, process, structural risks and prepare a risk mitigation plan for all the projects
- Ensure quality assurance of all the architecture or design decisions and provide technical mitigation support to the delivery teams
- Recommend tools for reuse, automation for improved productivity and reduced cycle times
- Lead the development and maintenance of enterprise framework and related artefacts
- Develop trust and build effective working relationships through respectful, collaborative engagement across individual product teams
- Ensure architecture principles and standards are consistently applied to all the projects
- Ensure optimal Client Engagement
- Support pre-sales team while presenting the entire solution design and its principles to the client
- Negotiate, manage, and coordinate with the client teams to ensure all requirements are met and create an impact of solution proposed
- Demonstrate thought leadership with strong technical capability in front of the client to win the confidence and act as a trusted advisor
- Ensure completion of necessary trainings and certifications
- Develop Proof of Concepts (POCs), case studies, demos, etc. for new growth areas based on market and customer research
- Develop and present a point of view of Wipro on solution design and architect by writing white papers, blogs, etc.
- Attain market referencability and recognition through highest analyst rankings, client testimonials, and partner credits
- Be the voice of Wipro's Thought Leadership by speaking in forums (internal and external)
- Mentor developers, designers, and Junior architects in the project for their further career development and enhancement
- Contribute to the architecture practice by conducting selection interviews, etc.
- Resourcing
- Anticipating new talent requirements as per the market/industry trends or client requirements
- Hire adequate and right resources for the team
- Talent Management
- Ensure adequate onboarding and training for the team members to enhance capability & effectiveness
- Build an internal talent pool and ensure their career progression within the organization
- Manage team attrition
- Drive diversity in leadership positions
- Performance Management
- Set goals for the team, conduct timely performance reviews, and provide constructive feedback to own direct reports
- Ensure that the Performance Nxt is followed for the entire team
- Employee Satisfaction and Engagement
- Lead and drive engagement initiatives for the team
- Track team satisfaction scores and identify initiatives to build engagement within the team
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Relocation assistance
- Generous paid time off
- 401k matching
