Solution Architect - Application

EY; Thiruvananthapuram; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,600,000; Full time

Job summary

EY seeks a Solution Architect – Application to drive architecture and design of complex enterprise platforms within the End User Technology Experience team. The role requires deep end-to-end architecture understanding and guidance on Office 365/Azure services, collaborating with business stakeholders and agile teams.

You will mentor technical staff, own risk and architecture decisions, and help deliver scalable, reusable solutions across SharePoint, Power Platform, and related services.

Qualifications

• Experience as Solution Architect leading complex enterprise platforms.
• Strong English communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven ability to design cloud-based platform solutions and guide agile teams.

Responsibilities

• Architect and design platform solutions for a complex enterprise.
• Lead technical dependencies across products and services.
• Provide guidance on complex production designs and root-cause analysis.
• Lead Agile sprints and mentor staff on design sprints.
• Ensure adherence to architectural standards and governance.

Skills

Stakeholder management

English communication

Cloud platform design

Architecture governance

Agile Scrum

Microsoft 365/Power Platform

Team mentoring

Education

Bachelor or Master in IT or Business Management

Tools

SharePoint

PowerApps

Power BI

Dynamics 365

Azure IaaS/PaaS

ServiceNow

Job description

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

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Job Title: Solution Architect – Application

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.

Join EY and help to build a better working world.

Job Summary

EY is a global leader in Advisory, Assurance, Tax, and Transaction Services. In our globalizing economy the availability of skills and expertise is becoming more and more distributed. Within the End User Technology Experience team, we enable EY professionals to meet the increasing pace of business by delivering productivity and collaboration solutions that empower them to work together where they want and how they want. The Solution Architect is a highly skilled senior role with industry leading architecture and design expertise to support one or more programs. He/she has a deep end to end understanding of architecture standards and platform solution development expertise. The End User Technology Experience requires a seasoned Solution Architect to provide technical guidance on Application development, Microsoft Platform solutions, and lead customer service applications. Candidate must be a self-starter with Agile framework experience and provide RISK/Technical architecture leadership.

Essential Functions Of The Job

The Solution Architect:

• Architect and Design platform solutions needed for a complex enterprise
• Manages the technical dependencies across the different products and services
• Provides guidance on complex production designs, applications or system problems.
• Solution design will include the creation of reusable, repeatable IP and artifacts
• Identify opportunities to innovate, extend and enhance O365/Azure services
• Own Root Cause Analysis and Problem Management for first of a kind solution implementation
• Lead Agile sprints in product owner capacity and mentor technical staff on newer design sprints
• Enforce adherence to architectural standards/principles, global product-specific guidelines, usability experience and design standards, etc.
• Identify, communicate and mitigate Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Decisions throughout the development lifecycle.
• Responsible for the solution planning, migration, architecture, development, and delivery; works with business stakeholders and technical teams to develop and implement solutions in agile environments, provides support for new SharePoint deployments and migrations from older platforms; builds Intranets, branding, enterprise applications and collaboration systems.
• Responsible to propose with a custom solutions & collaboration with business application owners, project managers, designers, engineers, and infrastructure teams to build a quality experience for users.

Knowledge and Skills Requirements

• History of working credibly with senior stakeholders
• Adapts personal communication style to the style of others, develops rapport and stays calm under pressure or escalating issues using advanced oral and written English communication skills.
• Strong verbal and written skills including strong cross-cultural communication and the ability to draft effective communications
• Ability to work with people in a variety of cultures, countries and time zones
• Demonstrate excellent technical & architecture skills in the context of cloud-based platform/product design, service management and product lifecycle management
• Demonstrate ability to rapidly learn new and emerging technologies and developing a vision of their suitability
• Serves as the lead solution architect for customer service solutions
• Experience with Microsoft Teams and Dynamics 365
• Experience with ServiceNow, Azure IaaS and PaaS services
• Experience with Business Intelligence analytic tools
• Designed, validated, and implemented PowerApps and Power BI solutions
• Platform Expertise using Microsoft Graph, Power Apps, Flow and market place apps
• Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence, BOT Framework, RPA and virtual agents
• Knowledge of python, AI stacks, CNN’s, RNN’s, AI Fluency, NLP, Digital Twins, Metaverse, Data preprocessing.
• Knowledge of UI/UX, branding, and document management, Custom solutions development, search and metadata configuration, business analysis, business process automation, and workflows. Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow, SharePoint Technologies (Windows SharePoint Services, SharePoint Server, InfoPath Forms
• Services, Forms, PowerShell scripts, Migration tools (Sharegate, DocAve, Cloudiway), Excel Services, Search,
• Business Data Catalog and Web Services), PowerApps, Flow, Power BI, Security & Compliance, Data Governance, Classic and Modern UI, PowerShell, PowerApps, Flow
• Knowledge of Intranets, public websites, applications, Proposal Management Systems, Project Management
• Information Systems, product or service sites, business development, process automation with forms and workflows.
• Knowledge of Classic and Modern UI, Power BI and SharePoint integration & so as building knowledge of automated process and workflows (using various tools & technologies).
• Knowledge of Agile Development, Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), System Development Life Cycle
• Methodology (SDLCM), Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF), Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF)
• Build technical artifacts for Engineering and product owners
• Brings proven industry leading technical expertise of the product(s)
• Good understanding of the financial aspects of the product management
• 5-10 years’ experience in an Architecture role

Other Requirements

• The role may require minimum travel, participate in workshops, coach/lead engineering teams and available in US/UK business hours

Job Requirements

Education

• Bachelor or Master degree in Information Technology or Business Management

Experience

• Approximately 17 years of experience in a comparable executive leadership role.

Certification Requirements

• TOGAF, O365, Azure Paas, IaaS or Analytics Certification

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