Data Architect jobs in United States

Job Type: Contract 6+ Months - Inside IR35

Job Location: London, UK

Client: Wipro

The purpose of the role is to create exceptional and detailed architectural application design and provide thought leadership to enable delivery teams to offer exceptional client engagement and satisfaction.

• Develop architectural application for the new deals / major change requests in existing deals
  • Creates an enterprise-wide architecture that ensures systems are scalable, reliable, and manageable.
  • Manages application assets and directs the development efforts within an enterprise to improve solution delivery and agility.
  • Guides how to construct and assemble application components and services to support solution architecture and application development.
  • Maintains the frameworks and artefacts used in the implementation of an application, with reference to the systematic architecture of the overall application portfolio.
  • Responsible for application architecture paradigms such as service-oriented architecture (SOA) and, more specifically, microservices, ensuring the business achieves agility and scalability for a faster time to market.
  • Provide solutions for RFPs received from clients and ensure overall design assurance.
• Develop a direction to manage the portfolio of to-be-solutions including systems, shared infrastructure services, applications in order to better match business outcome objectives.
• Analyze technology environment, enterprise specifics, client requirements to set a collaboration design framework / architecture.
• Depending on the client s needs and particular standards and technology stacks, create complete RFPs.
• Provide technical leadership to the design, development, and implementation of custom solutions through thoughtful use of modern technology.
• Define and understand current state solutions and identify improvements, options trade-offs to define target state solutions.
• Clearly articulate and sell architectural targets, recommendations, and reusable patterns and accordingly propose investment roadmaps.
• Evaluate and recommend solutions to integrate with the overall technology ecosystem.
• Track industry and application trends and relate these to planning current and future IT needs.
• Provide technical and strategic inputs during the project planning phase in the form of technical architectural designs and recommendations.
• Account mining to find opportunities in existing clients.
• Collaborate with all relevant parties to review the objectives and constraints of solutions and determine conformance with the Enterprise Architecture.
• Identify implementation risks and potential impacts.
• Create new revenue streams within applications as APIs that can be leveraged by clients.
• Bring knowledge of automation in applications by embracing Agile and DevOps principles to reduce manual tasks.

• Create Intellectual Property in the form of services, patterns, models, and organizational approaches.
• Design patterns, best practices, and reusable applications that can be used for future reference.
• Ensure system capabilities are consumed by system components and set criteria for evaluating technical and business value in terms of Tolerate, Invest, Migrate, and Eliminate.
• Provide a platform to create standardized tools, ensuring uniform design and techniques are maintained to reduce maintenance costs.
• Coordinate input on risks, costs, and opportunities for concepts.
• Develop customized applications for customers aligned with their needs.
• Perform design and code reviews thoroughly on a regular basis, keeping in mind security measures.
• Understand design and production procedures and standards to create prototypes and finished products.
• Work closely with systems analysts, software developers, data managers, and other team members to ensure successful production of application software.
• Offer viable solutions for various systems and architectures to different types of businesses.
• Ensure seamless integration of new and existing systems to eliminate potential problems and maintain data structure while bringing value in terms of development.
• Transform all applications into digital form and implement and evolve around mesh app and service architecture that supports new technologies like IoT, blockchain, machine learning, automation, BOTS, etc.

• Understand non-functional requirements.
• Produce artefacts such as deployment architecture and interface catalogues.
• Identify internal and external dependencies, vendors, and internal IT management.
• Support build and testing teams.

• Understand and define target architecture in the integration space.
• Assess project pipeline / demand and align to target architecture.
• Provide technical support to the delivery team in terms of POC and technical guidance.
• Keep up-to-date with the latest technologies in the market.