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Practice Overview:

Skill/Operating Group

Technology Strategy

Level

Manager

Location

Gurgaon/Mumbai/Bangalore

Travel Percentage

Expected Travel could be anywhere between 0-100%

Why Technology Strategy

The Technology strategy business within Capability Network invents the future for clients by providing them with the right guidance, design thinking and innovative solutions for shaping their future through relevant technology enabled strategies.

As technology rapidly evolves, it's more important than ever to have an innovation advisor who can create a new vision or put one into place to solve the client's toughest business problems.

Specialize in technology strategy to transform the worlds leading organizations by building innovative business solutions at intersection of business and technology as their trusted advisor by:

Helping Clients:Rethinking IT and Digital ecosystems and innovating to help clients keep pace with fast-changing, customer-driven environments.

Enhancing your Skillset: Building expertise and innovating with leading-edge technologies such as Blockchain, new age platform economies, Artificial Intelligence and Cloud.

Transforming Businesses:Developing customized, next-generation products and services that help clients shift to new business models designed for todays connected landscape of disruptive technologies

Principal Duties And Responsibilities:

To bring knowledge, process expertise and world class capabilities to our clients and deliver business value. To work with leading global clients to design, build and implement strategies that can help enhance business performance. Develop specialized expertise"strategic, industry, functional, technical"in a diverse project environment that offers multiple opportunities for career growth.

The opportunities to make a difference within exciting client initiatives are limitless in this ever-changing business landscape.

Here are just a few of your day-to-day responsibilities.

Identifying, assessing and solving complex business problems for area of responsibility, where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors

Overseeing the production and implementation of solutions covering multiple cloud technologies, associated Infrastructure / application architecture, development and operating models

Help clients design, architect and scale their journey to new technology-driven growth at the intersection of business and technology

Help clients modernize their IT landscape and processes to adapt to latest technology trends

Helping to integrate large-scale systems involving on-premises technology and public cloud platforms

Called upon to apply your solid understanding of cloud and disruptive technologies.

Driving enterprise business, application and integration architecture

Helping solve key business problems and challenges by enabling an architecture transformation, painting a picture of, and charting a journey from the current state to a "to-be" enterprise environment

Implementing programs/interventions that prepare the organization for implementation of new business processes

Assisting our clients to build the required capabilities for growth and innovation to sustain high performance

Managing multi-disciplinary teams to shape, sell, communicate and implement programs

Developing our offerings and assets

Mentoring and developing our people

Qualifications:

Bachelor Degree

MBA Degree (Preferable)

8-11years of large scale consulting experience and/or working with hi tech companies in enterprise architecture, SoA, Microservices architecture, API architecture

Experience:

We are looking for Enterprise architecture consultants having

Minimum of 6 years' consulting experience (at Sr consultant / manager level) or Technical background supplemented with Enterprise Architecture experience

Good working knowledge of one or more of the following:Business Architecture, Application Architecture, Security Architecture, Microservices architecture, SoA, API architecture and technology Architecture

Good knowledge of technology and enterprise architecture concepts through practical experience

Understanding of the technology stack from infrastructure through business logic and applications

Knowledge of major technologies (legacy to emerging)

Knowledge of and passion for technology trends e.g. Mobility, Cloud, Digital, Collaboration

Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture tools such as Popkin, Meta and Troux

A strong understanding of industry operations and dynamics through experience in the following industries is preferred: Banking

Experience in designing or building end to end cloud-based business solutions desirable

Practical experience in end to end project delivery lifecycle desirable

Exposure to industry frameworks e.g. TOGAF, DODAF desirable but not essential

The Consultant should have practical industry expertise. The areas of Financial Services, Retail, consumer goods, Telecommunications, Life Sciences, Transportation, Hospitality, Automotive/Industrial, Mining and Resources are of interest but experience in equivalent domains is also welcomed. Consultants should understand the key technology trends in their domain and the related business implications

Experience in leading consulting engagements with large clients preferable

Qualifications

Key Competencies and Skills:

Work may require extensive travel to client sites for project work

Strong desire to work in technology-driven business transformation

The ability to develop technology solutions and value adding propositions and take these to market

Ability to drive C-suite/senior leadership level discussions

Strong knowledge of technology trends across IT and digital and how they can be applied to companies to address real world problems and opportunities.

Deep experience within one or more of the Banking, Capital Markets, Telecom, Media, Oil & Gas, Life Sciences, Retail or Consumer Goods services industries.

Comfort conveying both high-level and detailed information, adjusting the way ideas are presented to better address varying social styles and audiences.

Leading proof of concept and/or pilot implementations and defining the plan to scale implementations across multiple technology domains

Exceptional interpersonal and presentation skills - ability to convey technology and business value propositions to senior stakeholders

Team oriented and collaborative working style, both with clients and those within the organization.

Capacity to develop high impact thought leadership that articulates a forward-thinking view of the market.

Ability to develop and maintain strong internal and client relationships

Proven track record in working creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment

Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment with effective consulting skills

Proven track record to quickly understand the key value drivers of a business, how they impact the scope and approach of the engagement

Demonstrated ability to develop younger talent and build a high performing team.

Flexibility to accommodate client travel requirements