Overview
Role Purpose The purpose of the role is overall development of the target Architecture through defining the technology roadmap for own business/ domain. Recognized as the subject matter expert for a specific domain and provides expert advice & guidance to different business stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Develop architectural application for the new deals/ major change requests in existing deals
- Creates enterprise wide business/ domain architecture deliverables (enabling, diagnostic and actionable) focused on the target audience and its issues and opportunities
- Look for opportunities to use high-level business and operating models (business capability and value chain), combined with or relating to business, people, information, technology and solutions.
- Contributes to the Target Architecture, by developing and maintaining the technology roadmap for area of expertise and ensuring that roadmap remains aligned to the Business Strategy
- Recognizing innovative use of technology for increasing performance measures
- Works with other IS and business stakeholders to drive the development and adoption of the target architecture for own domain
- Establish domain specific standards, near/mid-term strategy, and roadmaps, in adherence to, and in support of Enterprise standards, strategy, and roadmaps.
- Guide a solution from concept to delivery - envision and create solutions that meet requirements
- Prove the feasibility of a design; and can ultimately be implemented and supported in the Production environment
- Oversee product/ platform engineering, protocol map development, virtualization as per the business solution requirements
- Apply architectural and engineering concepts to design a solution that meets operational requirements, such as scalability, maintainability, security, reliability, extensibility, flexibility, availability, and manageability.
- Participate and lead research and development efforts (proof of concept, prototypes), as subject matter experts, when introducing new technologies, in conjunction with team and Product Owners
- Partners with IT and line of business functional groups to communicate and clarify business needs, contributes to the development of long-range system plans, and ensures that IT products, services and processes are aligned with line of business needs.
- Define high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the current and future state, typically in sync with the IT budgeting or other capital planning processes
- Provides technology consulting to solution architects, junior staff members, and others who are using or modifying multiple domain technologies within a solution, insuring the technology operates coherently to meet overall needs
- Interaction with EA, OEMs, Technical leads for defining business solutions
- Depending on the client’s need with particular standards and technology stacks create complete RFPs
- Clearly articulate and sell architectural targets, recommendations and reusable patterns and accordingly propose investment roadmaps
- Provide solution of RFPs received from clients and ensure overall design assurance
- Develop a direction to manage the portfolio of all the business/ domain requirements including systems, shared infrastructure services in order to better match business outcome objectives
- Analyse technology environment, enterprise specifics, client requirements to set a collaboration solution for the big/small data
- Provide technical leadership to the implementation of custom solutions through thoughtful use of modern technology
- Define and understand current issues and problems and identify improvements
- Evaluate and recommend solutions to integrate with overall technology ecosystem keeping consistency throughout
- Understand the root cause problem in integrating business and product units
- Validate the solution/ prototype from technology, cost structure and customer differentiation point of view
- Collaborating with sales and delivery leadership teams to identify future needs and requirements
- Tracks industry and application trends and relates these to planning current and future IT needs