Application Architect

- 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 businesses achieve agility and scalability for a faster time to market.

- Provide solution of 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, and applications in order to better match business outcome objectives.
• Analyse technology environment, enterprise specifics, and client requirements to set a collaboration design framework/architecture.
• Depending on the client s need with 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, and tradeoffs 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.

- Tracks industry and application trends and relates these to planning current and future IT needs

• Provides technical and strategic inputs during the project planning phase in the form of technical architectural designs and recommendations.
• Account mining to find opportunities in the existing clients.
• Collaborates with all relevant parties in order to review the objectives and constraints of solutions and determine conformance with the Enterprise Architecture.
• Identifies implementation risks and potential impacts.

- Create new revenue streams within applications as APIs that can be leveraged by clients

• Bring knowledge of automation in application by embracing Agile and DevOps principles to reduce manual part.

- Understanding application requirements and design a standardized application

• Creating Intellectual Property in forms of services, patterns, models, and organizational approaches.
• Designing patterns, best practices, and reusable applications that can be used for future references.
• 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 platform to create standardized tools, uniform design, and techniques are maintained to reduce costs of maintenance.

- Coordinating input on risks, costs, and opportunities for concepts

• Developing customized applications for the customers aligned with their needs.
• Perform design and code reviews thoroughly on a regular basis, keeping in mind the security measures.

- Understanding 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 the successful production of application software.

- Offer viable solutions for various systems and architectures to different types of businesses

• Seamless integration of new and existing systems to eliminate potential problems and maintain data structure and bring value in terms of development.

- Cloud Transformation: (Migration)

• Understanding non-functional requirements.
• Producing artefacts such as deployment architecture, interface catalogue.
• Identify internal and external dependency, vendor, and internal IT management.
• Support build and testing team.

- Cloud Transformation: (Modernization)

• Understanding and Defining target architecture in Integration space.
• Assessing project pipeline/demand and aligning to target architecture.
• Technical support of the delivery team in terms of POC and technical guidance.

- Enable Delivery Teams by providing optimal delivery solutions/frameworks

• Build and maintain relationships with executives, technical leaders, product owners, peer architects, and other stakeholders to become a trusted advisor.

- Collaborate with enterprise architect for translating business strategy to execution

• Develops and establishes relevant technical, business process, and overall support metrics (KPI/SLA) to drive results.

- Ensure optimal Client Engagement

• Support pre-sales team while presenting the entire solution design and its principles to the client.

- Competency Building and Branding

• Ensure completion of necessary training and certifications.
• Develop Proof of Concepts (POCs), case studies, demos, etc. , for new growth areas based on market and customer research.

- Team Management

• Resourcing: Anticipating new talent requirements as per the market/industry trends or client requirements.
• Talent Management: Ensure adequate onboarding and training for the team members to enhance capability and effectiveness.
• Performance Management: Set goals for the team, conduct timely performance reviews, and provide constructive feedback to own direct reports.
• Employee Satisfaction and Engagement: Lead and drive engagement initiatives for the team.

Databrick, Pyspark, Python