Cloud Architect

JOB SUMMARY

Design and implement Infrastructure/Cloud Architecture for a small/mid size projects Design and implement the architecture for the projects Guide and review technical delivery by project teams Provide technical expertise to other projects

Key Responsibilities

• Solution Definition and Design:
  • Define Architecture for the small/mid-sized kind of project
  • Design the technical framework and implement the same
  • 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 senior architect
  • Implement best optimized solution and resolve performance issues
• Requirement gathering and Analysis:
  • Understand the functional and non-functional requirements
  • Collect non-functional requirements (such as response time, throughput numbers, user load, etc.) through discussions with SMEs, business users
  • Identify technical aspects as part of story definition, especially at an architecture / component level
• Project Management Support:
  • Share technical inputs with Project Managers/ SCRUM Master
  • Help SCRUM Masters / project managers to understand the technical risks and come up with mitigation strategies
  • Help Engineers and Analysts overcome technical challenges
• Technology Consulting:
  • Analysis of technology landscape, process, tools based on project objectives
• Business and Technical Research:
  • Understand Infrastructure architecture and its' criticality to: analyze and assess tools (internal/external) on specific parameters
  • Understand Infrastructure architecture and its criticality to Support Architect/Sr. Architect in drafting recommendations based on findings of Proof of Concept
  • Understand Infrastructure architecture and its criticality to: analyze and identify new developments in existing technologies (e.g. methodologies, frameworks, accelerators, etc.)
• Project Estimation:
  • Provide support for project estimations for business proposals and support sprint level / component level estimates
  • Articulate estimation methodology, module level estimations for more standard projects with focus on effort estimation alone
• Proposal Development:
  • Contribute to proposal development [of small to medium size projects from technology/architecture perspective]
• Knowledge Management & Capability Development:
  • Conduct technical trainings/ Webinars to impart knowledge to CIS / project teams
  • Create collaterals (e.g. case study, business value documents, summary, etc.)
  • Gain industry standard certifications on technology and architecture consulting
  • Contribute to knowledge repository and tools
  • Creating reference architecture model, reusable components from the project
• 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

Required Qualifications

• Skill Examples:
  • Use Domain/ Industry Knowledge to understand business requirements, create POC to meet business requirements under guidance
  • Use Technology Knowledge to analyse technology based on client's specific requirement, analyse and understand existing implementations, work on simple technology implementations (POC) under guidance, guide the developers and enable them in the implementation of same
  • Use knowledge of Architecture Concepts and Principles to provide inputs to the senior architects towards building component solutions, deploy the solution as per the architecture under guidance
  • Use Tools and Principles to create low level design under guidance from the senior Architect for the given business requirements
  • Use Project Governance Framework to facilitate communication with the right stakeholders and Project Metrics to help them understand the relevance in project and to share input on project metrics for own area of work
  • Use Estimation and Resource Planning knowledge to help estimate and plan resources for specific modules / small projects with detailed requirements in place
  • Use Knowledge Management Tools and Techniques to participate in the knowledge management process (such as Project specific KT), consume/contribute to the knowledge management repository
  • Use knowledge of Technical Standards, Documentation and Templates to understand & interpret the documents provided
  • Use Solution Structuring knowledge to understand the proposed solution, provide input to create draft proposals/ RFP (include effort estimation, schedule, resource loading, etc.)
• Knowledge Examples:
  • Domain/ Industry Knowledge:
    • Has basic knowledge of standard business processes within the relevant industry vertical and customer business domain
  • Technology Knowledge:
    • Has deep working knowledge on the one technology tower and gain more knowledge in Cloud and security
  • Estimation and Resource Planning:
    • Has working knowledge on estimation and resource planning techniques
    • Has basic knowledge of industry knowledge management tools (such as portals, wiki), UST and customer knowledge management tools, techniques (such as workshops, classroom training, self-study, application walkthrough and reverse Kt)
  • Technical Standards, Documentation and Templates:
    • Has basic knowledge of various document templates and standards (such as business blueprint, designs documents, etc)
  • Requirement Gathering and Analysis:
    • Demonstrates working knowledge requirements gathering for (non-functional), requirements analysis for functional and non functional, compounds used tools (such...)

Preferred Qualifications

• Typical performance measures:
  • # of reusable components / processes developed, # of times components / processes reused
  • Customer feedback on overall technical quality (zero technology related escalations)
  • # white papers/document assets published / working prototypes

Certifications

• Relevant Technology certifications
• Gain industry standard certifications on technology and architecture consulting