The role of Solution Architect L1 at Wipro Limited involves creating exceptional architectural solution design and thought leadership to enable delivery teams to provide exceptional client engagement and satisfaction. Key responsibilities include developing architectural solutions, providing technical leadership, and collaborating with various IT groups to transition tasks and manage issues. The role also involves enabling delivery teams by providing optimal delivery solutions and frameworks, and ensuring quality assurance of all architecture or design decisions.
Requirements
- Develop architectural solutions for new deals/major change requests
- Provide solutioning of RFPs received from clients
- Develop a direction to manage the portfolio of to-be-solutions
- Analyze technology environment, enterprise specifics, client requirements
- Provide technical leadership to the design, development, and implementation of custom solutions
- Define and understand current state solutions and identify improvements
- Clearly articulate, document, and sell architectural targets, recommendations, and reusable patterns
- Evaluate and recommend solutions to integrate with overall technology ecosystem
- Works closely with various IT groups to transition tasks, ensure performance, and manage issues through to resolution
- Perform detailed documentation of the architectural design and solution
- Validate the solution/prototype from technology, cost structure, and customer differentiation point of view
- Identify problem areas and perform root cause analysis of architectural design and solutions
- Collaborating with sales, program/project, consulting teams to reconcile solutions to architecture
- Tracks industry and application trends and relates these to planning current and future IT needs
- Provides technical and strategic input during the project planning phase
- Collaborates with all relevant parties to review the objectives and constraints of solutions and determine conformance with the Enterprise Architecture
- Identifies 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
- Develops and establishes relevant technical, business process, and overall support metrics (KPI/SLA) to drive results
- Manages multiple projects and accurately reports the status of all major assignments while adhering to all project management standards
- 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 provides technical mitigation support to the delivery teams
- Recommend tools for reuse, automation for improved productivity and reduced cycle times
- Leads the development and maintenance of enterprise framework and related artefacts
- Develops trust and builds effective working relationships through respectful, collaborative engagement across individual product teams
- Ensures 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
- Comprehensive training and certification programs
- Opportunities for career growth and advancement
- Collaborative and dynamic work environment
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Paid time off and holidays
- Flexible work arrangements
