This section describes various architect profiles in terms of role description, the accountabilities and competencies.
Summary of job description is as follows:
The enterprise architect will be responsible for assessment of high-risk, high-value proposals for process compliance, competitive approach, and risk identification and mitigation. The role ensures that the risks identified during the initial phases are addressed while in execution. The role also provides technical management support to troubled delivery projects. This role requires regular direct interfacing with the C-level management, including the CEO, CFO, and CTO; and providing internal technical consultative services and evaluation reports of complex, high-risk system integration deals.
The responsibilities of this role are as follows:
- Key activities revolve around driving proposal and delivery consistency for complex deals through the entire life cycle, providing proposal and project assessment reports to C-level management, and providing feedback to the proposal or project teams with regards to risk mitigation and planning.
- Validation of identified risks and the associated mitigation plan of complex, high-risk, and high-value deals delivered to C-level management, including the CEO.
- Quality assessment for process compliance with a quarterly assessment summary provided to the management. The quarterly report includes process assessment findings, recommended process changes and measurements meeting SEI CMMI level 5 practices.
- Solution validation and competitive analysis of proposed solutions.
- Proposal team mentoring in technology, approach, and method of delivery.
- Facilitation of transition to ensure that risks in the initial stages are mitigated during the startup and governance phases.
- Reporting to the C-level and theater-level deal review board, providing approval guidance.
- Provide guidance to selected or high-risk or troubled projects.
- EA reports into executive/senior management, the role also supports creation of intellectual properties or in merger and acquisition.
The accountabilities for this role are as follows:
- Enable proposal and delivery tasks at a group level
- Collaborate with sales and engineering groups to provide guidance to proposal and artifact creation, engagement delivery plans, requirements traceability, technical solution, risk identification, and risk mitigation
- Preparation of assessment reports and presentation for the approval process including C-suite deal reviews and approval
- Be the face of the organization at media and analyst events to represent the proposal team
- Advocates for incorporation and use of reusable assets from the Unisys portfolio
- Advocates for adherence to defined Unisys standard corporate proposal and delivery standards
The competencies for this role as as follows:
- Experience of 15+ years in IT and 5+ years in software architecture, including estimation and architecture of large-scale complex engagements (> $10M).
- Technical acumen and experience in architecting large and complex solutions as a senior lead architect.
- Risk assessment and demonstrated skills regarding risk identification and risk mitigation planning. Knowledge and application of CMMI risk management.
- Demonstrated skills in process analysis, understanding of delivery processes and the technical depth to assess the quality of the technology deliverables and the proposed solution. Ability and experience in examination technical artifacts to provide staff and management with objective insights into processes and work products.
- Broad software development process expertise with demonstrated experience in requirement analysis, solution architecture, configuration management, and quality assurance.
- Broad technical knowledge in the areas of cloud computing, networking, security, application modernization, and data center with demonstrated in-depth knowledge in at least two of the areas.
- Demonstrated experience in a significant senior technical leadership position such as a chief engineer, chief technology architect, or chief technical officer.
- Large technical project experience involving high-dollar-value technical projects above $20 million USD, with delivery and performance periods exceeding two years.
- System integration lead experience using model-driven delivery methods and tools.
- Strong experience in requirements management methods and tooling.
- Experience with project management methods aligned to Prince 2 or PMI standards as required for technical leadership and project governance.
- Experience working in cross-functional and global environments, including disciplines for virtual proposal and delivery environment.
- Experience with all of the following: developing and delivering presentations to multiple levels of internal stakeholders, including C-level management, partners, and customers.
- Master's degree or bachelor of science degree or higher in computer technology or electrical engineering.
- Experience with industry standard frameworks, models, and UMLs.
- Experience in leveraging rational unified processes: RUP or Microsoft frameworks and tooling.
- Systems engineering lead experience and familiarity with the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE).
- Experience with large complex systems integration projects with multi-year delivery schedules. A project would typically be over $20 million revenues.
- Intellectual property valuation experience.
- Travel: 20%-50%.
Summary of the job description:
The enterprise architect leads and contributes to delivery excellence, technology adoption, IP creation and reuse, and innovation. The group provides technology leadership to various accounts and business units and helps build technical assets and solution frameworks for the banking and financial services vertical.
As part of the delivery teams, the group members lead the specification, design, and implementation of cutting-edge solutions and act as consultants to the client's teams in their respective area of expertise. The group also leads specification of a solution's architecture, design and implementation as part of the business development teams.
Play a leadership role (IT architecture and technology) for major LOBs and programs of strategic importance. In this role, the individual will be working closely with BU leadership, talent acquisition leadership, and SBU's chief architect to play a leading role in technology consulting through leadership, architecture delivery, innovation, and business development services for the customer. Additionally, the candidate will be responsible for providing leadership to one or more parts of the SBU talent acquisition team, thereby ensuring career growth, competency development, and reusable asset development.
The competencies for this role are as follows:
- An enterprise architect with 15+ years of architecture experience and 5+ years in architecture leadership roles for large and complex engagements
- Must be hands-on in terms of definition, developing, or implementing an enterprise architecture
- Experience in leadership roles as EA with the team of architects/solution designers
- Must have global exposure in terms of customers, solutions, industry, and work
- Hands-on experience in technology and architecture leadership
- Excellent leadership, communication, analytical, and decision making skills
- Ability to interconnect with customer leaderships, for example, LOB heads, CxOs, and chief architects
- Expertise in working in organizational dynamics of a large IT services firm such as SI or consulting
- Excellent articulation, documentation, specification expertise
- Broad exposure across SOA, web solutions, large-scale complex distributed systems
- Experience in pattern-oriented designs in both OO and service-oriented applications
- Experience and knowledge of one of the said domains
The responsibilities of this role are as follows:
- EA frameworks, integration, and data architecture
- SOA and technologies involved in contemporary SOA
- Expertise in BPM, business rules, workflows, and middleware technologies
- Enterprise Java and familiarity with the .NET framework
- Platform-based, framework-driven software solution development
- Architecture governance, complexity reduction, and technology selection
- NFRs, SLAs, architecture evaluation tools, and methods
- Expertise in multi-channel technologies and technology stacks on the HTML5 paradigm
- Expertise in mobile methodology and frameworks and social media tools
- Good grasp of big data and analytics, and familiarity with DW, BI, and ETL tools and platforms
The accountabilities for this role are as follows:
- Own and drive enterprise architecture, technology strategy, solution architecture, and thought leadership initiatives within the scope of the role
- Develop self- and team capabilities on emerging technology and architecture topics and deliver solutions in line with customer's IT architecture strategies, business priorities, and industry best practices
- Collaborate with client's architects, SBU leadership, client relationship management, and Cognizant's technology groups to develop and apply the applicable best practices and patterns in the context of the program/LOB
- Lead and support Cognizant's account management team in various business development activities, primarily within the SBU and help similar customer engagements with solutions, experiences, and learnings from the SBU
Summary of job description is as follows:
The enterprise architect plays a leadership role (IT architecture and technology) for major LOBs and programs of strategic importance. In this role, the individual will be working closely with BU leadership, talent acquisition leadership, and SBU's chief architect to play a leading role in technology consulting through leadership, architecture delivery, innovation, and business development services for the customer. Additionally, the candidate will be responsible for providing leadership to one or more parts of the SBU - talent acquisition team, thereby ensuring career growth, competency development, and reusable asset development.
The accountabilities for this role are as follows:
- Own the technical architecture for global accounts
- Typical accounts will be $3-5M in annual revenue
- Define standards, best practices, and templates on a Microsoft platform
- Drive the standards, best practices, and templates
- Engage with CTO teams for technology evaluation/recommendation on the Microsoft platform
- Implement productivity enhancers for the account(s) that you will own
- Engage in pre-sales activities
- Define new service lines based on the Microsoft roadmap
- Build a technical ISV partner ecosystem
- Groom the next-level team like architects and designers
- Bring in rookie grooming programs
The experience required for this role is as follows:
- 9 to 15 years of IT experience.
- Excellent consulting skills, experience in influencing change, negotiating and selling.
- Experience in defining enterprise architectures on Microsoft technologies. Extensive exposure across domains such as portals, integration, SOA, web services, BI, and so on.
- Large implementation exposure (>$3-$4M in development stage) on the Microsoft technology stack.
- Experience in technology evaluation and recommendation. Awareness of industry trends and competitive strategy.
- Experience in framework development. Ability to create point solutions in key vertical areas.
- Experience leading architects and specialists from the business, application, data and infrastructure domains.
- Experience on large management (deals >$3-$5M), both on homogeneous and heterogeneous.
The competencies for this role are follows:
- Ability to analyze the current state and map the overall IT landscape using techniques such as application and technology portfolio management
- Ability to analyse enterprise mission, goals and drivers, and synthesize the IT capabilities to address business goals
- Comfortable with the grooming process
- Competent in standard engagement models such as RUP, Agile, MSF
- Architectures: Ability to present solutions to customers along with schedule and costing
- Experience in enterprise architecture methods and frameworks: TOGAF, Zachman, FEAF, Gartner EA framework, and so on
- Extensive expertise in Microsoft technology frameworks and stacks
Summary of the job description is as follows:
The solution architect will help in the selection of technologies solutions and will be the liaison between business teams and architecture teams. Solutions architects will analyze the current architecture and define the to-be solution architecture and roadmaps. Skilled in architecting, designing, and implementing configuration changes to applications to meet both business needs.
The competencies for this role are as follows:
- Develop a solution strategy for the group unit based on an articulation of various business scenarios and motivations
- Apply a structured approach and methodology for capturing the key views of the BU and LOBs in the context of enterprise
- Develop a long-term technology roadmap for the organization
- Develop integrated view of business units, using a repeatable approach, cohesive framework, and industry standard and techniques
- Propose changes in process, policy, and standards as they relate to the architecture and design principles
- Articulate, analyze, and suggest improvements to strategic, tactical and support processes of BU to support strategic and operational goals
- Research and recommend on software products for the group
- Design and evolution of the business process design within the overall architectural framework of enterprise
The responsibilities of this role are as follows:
- Capturing tactical and strategic goals that provide traceability and are mapped to metrics to provide governance
- Articulating business, technical requirements and driving the creation of architectural assets to achieve business goals
- Creating and managing RFP and vendor evaluation for transparent software product and service provider evaluation
- Developing enterprise solutions that integrate across applications and platforms together with enterprise architecture to define and manage group architecture and compliance
- Assisting in identifying, analyzing and mitigating to project and operational risks
The accountabilities for this role are as follows:
- Collaboration with enterprise, application and infrastructure teams to produce optimal, assets
- Collaborating with business analysts in requirement gathering and process reviews
Summary of the job description is as follows:
The solution architect will help in the selection of technologies solutions and will be the liaison between business teams and architecture teams. Solutions architects will analyze the current architecture and define the to-be solution architecture and roadmaps. Skilled in architecting, designing, and implementing configuration changes to applications to meet both business needs.
The competencies for this role are as follows:
- 5+ years of experience as solution architect.
- Expertise in architecture, designing and development as an architect.
- Expertise in unified modeling language and object oriented analysis and design.
- Participation in all phases of software development life cycle, including analysis, design, coding and testing.
- Experience in implementing design patterns such as MVP, front controller, singleton, subject-observer, composite and dispatcher-view.
- Extensive hands-on experience with JBOSS application server.
- Experience in large system development background.
- Should have worked in R and D department. Exploring and experiments with new tools/technologies.
- Experience in solution designing and development.
- Experience leading large group meetings and workshops with senior executives.
The experience required for this role is as follows:
- Expertise in Spring and Hibernate is a must
- Expertise in Java, JDBC, JSPs, and various design patterns
- Strong leadership skills-leading, mentoring, and guiding technical teams
- Able to explain/direct the teams to follow guidelines and principles
- Support complex engagements by taking a central role in the journey and incorporating best practices and standards
- Ensure integrity and completeness of all software development from conceptualization to deployment and maintenance
- Participate in regular periodic technical reviews with team and assist in solutions
- Flexible for travel 50% of the year
The accountabilities for this role are as follows:
- Collaboration with enterprise, application and infrastructure teams to produce optimal, assets
- Collaborating with business analysts in requirement gathering and process reviews