The job requires a SOLUTION ARCHITECT L1 to develop architectural solutions, lead delivery teams, and enable client engagement. The role involves creating exceptional architectural solution design, thought leadership, and enabling delivery teams to provide exceptional client engagement and satisfaction.
Requirements
- Develop architectural solutions for new deals/major change requests
- Provide solutioning of RFPs received from clients and ensure overall design assurance
- Develop a direction to manage the portfolio of to-be-solutions
- Analyze technology environment, enterprise specifics, client requirements to set a collaboration solution design framework/architecture
- Provide technical leadership to the design, development, and implementation of custom solutions
- Clearly articulate, document, and sell architectural targets, recommendations, and reusable patterns and accordingly propose investment roadmaps
- Evaluate and recommend solutions to integrate with overall technology ecosystem
- Collaborate with various IT groups to transition tasks, ensure performance, and manage issues through to resolution
- Develop 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Anticipating new talent requirements as per the market/industry trends or client requirements
- Hire adequate and right resources for the team
- 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
- 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
- Lead and drive engagement initiatives for the team
- Track team satisfaction scores and identify initiatives to build engagement within the team
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Medical benefits
- Retirement plan
- Paid time off
- Relocation assistance
