Solutions Architect

JOB SUMMARY

Key Responsibilities

1. Act creatively to develop applications and select appropriate technical options. Optimize application development, maintenance and performance by employing design patterns and by reusing proven solutions, while accounting for others' developmental activities
2. Develop technical documents such as Functional Design Specifications, Deployment documentation
3. Perform design document reviews, peer code reviews and suggest code improvements
4. A single point of contact for the build and deployment issues and resolve them on time
5. Learn technology, business domain, system domain individually and as recommended by the project/account
6. Contribute to ERP/CRM Practice related activities for example (but not limited to) assembling content for case studies, contributing to reusability, coordinating internal seminars and conduct knowledge sharing sessions, organizing sessions during and participating in hackathons, etc.
7. Select appropriate technical options for development such as reusing, improving or reconfiguration of existing components.
8. Identify the problem patterns and improve the technical design of the application/system
9. Optimizes efficiency, cost and quality.
10. Interpret the application/feature/component design to develop the same in accordance with specifications.
11. Code, debug, test and document and communicates product/component/feature development stages.
12. Validate results with user representatives, integrates and commissions the overall solution.
13. Influence and improve customer satisfaction through things like (but not limited to) offering suggestions for code refactoring and for improvements in business processes, completing sprint deliverables ahead of time, helping client architects and product owners by way of design suggestions and/or explaining functionality to business stakeholders, etc…
14. Influence and improve employee engagement within the project teams
15. Learn and implement technology newly released features after impact analysis wherever applicable.
16. Attend industry/technology specific conferences (if applicable) and share the knowledge with the team.
17. Conduct peer reviews and demand high quality standards from the reviewed deliverables.
18. Conduct technical assessments for hiring candidates to developer/lead roles.
19. Mentor and manage a team.
20. Set goals for self and team in NorthStar. Provide timely feedback to team members

Typical performance measures

1. Number of applicable technical/domain certifications completed
2. Adherence to process and standards (coding standards)
3. Average time taken for turnaround on production bugs Adherence to schedule / timelines
4. Number of technical sessions conducted within Practice for the benefit of peers and team members.
5. Number of Leads who were guided and upskilled to lead a technical team.

Performance Areas

Requirement

Understand the requirements/user stories

Estimate

Create and provide inputs for effort and size estimation and plan resources for projects.

Follow scrum ceremonies

Configuration and Coding

Define coding standards, templates and checklists. Perform code review of team members.

Test

Review and create unit test cases, scenarios and execution.

Review test plan created by testing team.

Provide clarifications to the testing team.

Manage Defects

Perform defect RCA and mitigation.

Identify defect trends and take proactive measures to improve quality.

Manage Project

Manage delivery of modules. Manage user stories.

Documentation

Create/review templates, checklists, guidelines, standards for design/process/development.

Create/review deliverable documents. Design documentation, requirements, test cases and results.

Status Reporting

Report status of tasks assigned.

Comply with project related reporting standards and process.

Manage knowledge

• Contribute project related documents, share point, libraries, client universities.
• Review the reusable documents created by the team.
• Create knowledge sharing assets.

Release

Execute and monitor release process

Interface with Customer

• Clarify requirements and provide guidance to development team
• Present design options to customers
• Implementation reviews with stakeholders.
• Work closely with customer architects to finalize design

Domain relevance

• Advise software developers on design and development of feature / component with deeper understanding of the business problem being addressed for the client.
• Learn more about the customer domain and identify opportunities to provide value additions to customers
• Complete relevant domain certifications

Manage/Mentoring Team

• Set goals and provide regular feedback to team members.
• Understand aspirations of their team members and provide guidance, opportunities, etc.
• Ensure team members are upskilled and engaged in the project.
• Proactively identify any risks and work with mitigation measures.
• Mentor and motivate junior leads to upgrade their technical screening skills.

Assists others in resolving complex technical problems

• Manage all aspects of problem management activities, investigating the root cause of problems and recommends SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, timely) solutions.

Development and review of Standards & Documentation

• Maintenance of software process improvement activities, communicating to a range of individuals and teams.

Solution Definition & Design

• Define Architecture for the small sized kind of project.
• Design the technical framework and implement the same.

Required Qualifications

Skill Examples

1. Proactively identifying solutions for technical issues.
2. Ability to maintain technical evaluation procedures.
3. Ability to estimate project effort based on the requirement.
4. Perform and evaluate test results against product specifications.
5. Break down complex problems into logical components.
6. Interface with other teams, designers, and other parallel practice; including regular follow up for any conflicts during project execution.
7. Create and articulate impactful technical presentations.
8. Follow high level of business etiquette in emails and other business communication.
9. Drive conference calls with customers and answer customer questions.
10. Ability to work under pressure, determine dependencies, risks, facilitate planning and handle multiple tasks.
11. Build confidence with customers by meeting the deliverables in time with quality.
12. Proactively ask for and offer help

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge Examples

1. Functional and technical designing on various ERP/CRM cloud platform features and automations.
2. Thorough knowledge of coding best practices and understanding the limitations of coding.
3. Experience using data loading tools.
4. Experience with production deployment and solving deployment errors.
5. Experience in integrating ERP/CRM with external systems using SOAP API, REST API etc.
6. Experience working in Agile methodology.
7. Must have knowledge - HTML/HTML5, CSS, XML, AJAX, Web-services.
8. Experience with, Google APIs, JQuery/any other java-script framework, ERP/CRM technology specific mobile development, analytics, etc.
9. Deep knowledge on architecting solutions and applications on cloud-based infrastructures.
10. Deep level proficiency in the specialist area.