Senior Manager - Enterprise Computing

A Position Overview

Position Title

Cloud Architect

Department

TDA-BSG (IT)

Level/ Band

AVP/VP

Role Summary :

B Organizational Relationships

Reports to

Sr.VP - Head of Enterprise Computing

Supervises

Cloud operation teams, DevOps team and other cross functional project teams

C Job Dimensions

Geographic Area Covered

Pan India

Stakeholders Internal

All Departments

External

Cloud partners, Implementation Partners, IRDA, Security

D Key Result Areas

Ensure business solution meets customer requirements and adheres to Alliance defined standards

Assist strategic project team on technical and functional area

Identify reusable components to create a service catalog that can be leveraged to accelerate solution delivery

Identify areas of improvement & ensure application architecture as per current standards and technology innovations are in place

DevOps tools implementation for CI/CD.

Capacity Management and Emerging technologies POC

Act as interface between Business & delivery team on business solution , effort estimation, capacity planning, design patterns to be adhered

Contributes to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.

Identifies and evaluates alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.

Produces specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers and interfaces, for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products.

Supports a change programme or project through the preparation of technical plans and application of design principles that comply with enterprise and solution architecture standards (including security).

Designs components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology.

Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs. Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders of the architecture and to handle both functional and non-functional requirements.

Models, simulates, or prototypes the behaviour of proposed systems components to enable approval by stakeholders.

Produces detailed design specification to form the basis for construction of systems.

Reviews, verifies, and improves own designs against specifications. Software design

Designs software components and modules using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed software design standards, patterns, and methodology.

Creates and communicates multiple design views to identify and balance the concerns of all stakeholders of the software design and to allow for both functional and non-functional requirements.

Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs. Recommends designs which consider target environment, performance security requirements and existing systems.

Reviews, verifies, and improves own designs against specifications. Leads reviews of others designs.

Models, simulates, or prototypes the behaviour of proposed software to enable approval by stakeholders, and effective construction of the software.

Verifies software design by constructing and applying appropriate methods

Provides technical expertise to enable the configuration of software, other system components and equipment for systems testing.

Collaborates with technical teams to develop and agree system integration plans and report on progress.

Ensures that integration test environments are correctly configured.

Designs, performs and reports results of tests of the integration build.

Identifies and documents system integration components for recording in the configuration management system.

Recommends and implements improvements to processes and tools.

Analyse Process and systems to mitigate risk and provide solutions for non-stated functional requirements

Ensure all IT design and architecture risks are managed

Guide extended team in sequencing the project deliverables to ensure all the building blocks fit in properly with no rework and surprises

Review provided technical, integration, database design artifacts and source code if required

Mentor to the application development team on appropriate use of architecture, Java / J2EE and SOA design patterns

Mentoring the team on technical and business-related areas

Help in coordination between different verticals of IT / DC Team

Ensure compliance to AIA and TALIC rules and standards

Constantly align with the IT team, Vendor team and business stakeholder

E Competencies ( Please copy paste from Competency Dictionary)

Competency For

Proficiency Scale

Proficiency Scale Description

Eg

Business Acumen and Strategic Orientation

Ability to align with the organizations vision with a fair understanding of the insurance industry, regulations, financial markets and the agency business model in order to deliver profitable and sustainable business growth.

3

Has an in-depth understanding of the market of operations and proposes changes if required as per market dynamics.
Understands how and to what extent business complexities impacts ones own area of work.
Is able to identify trends and analyze performance of self and various branches in ones geography.
Has expert knowledge of BA model, BA compensation and Agent commission and progression and uses it to deliver superior performance.
Is able to device plans to recruit, develop and sustain distributors on a long term basis with organization.
Strives towards achieving proportionate business contribution from all the branches of assigned territory.

G Skills Required

Technical

Relevant experience working with Azure or another public cloud solution (AWS/GCP) 7+ Years experience implementing and supporting Microsoft cloud services, specifically: Azure IaaS, Monitoring Services, Cloud Backup Services, or Site Recovery Services

2 Years experience with Microsoft Hyper-V and Virtual Networking

Expertise around Azure delta lake, big data, CDC is must to have.

Experience as an Azure Admin working with: Azure AD, Azure MECM (formerly SCCM), Azure Update Management, and Migrating workloads.

Knowledge of design or implementation of on-premises Private Clouds, including any of the following: Azure Stack Hub or Azure Stack HCI

Relevant experience with IaaS and PaaS services, SQL Azure, Azure Sentinel, Migration from On-premise environments to Azure platform, Windows Server services and configuration and deployment, Active Directory (DNS, DHCP, Radius, etc), Hybrid On-premise & Azure platform.

Fundamental experience with Azure cognitive services (ML, AI, etc), Azure DevOps and Azure Data & Databases

Ability to effectively manage complex relationships

A communication style which positively impacts

Flexibility & resilience

Ability and willingness to challenge constructively and effectively

Good communication skills

University Bachelor Degree or preferably with an Engineering degree in Electronics and Telecommunications or Information

Behavioral

Essential

Desired

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Creative thinking skills

Supervising/Leadership skills

Teamwork Skills

Influencing skills

Relationship Building skills

Decision making skills

H Incumbent Characteristics

Essential

Desired

Qualification

B.E

Microsoft certifications preferred - Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104), Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-303 and Z-304, or AZ305), any other Azure certifications would be an advantage

Azure SDN or Azure ARC experience a plus.

Experience

15 plus years of Java / J2EE, mobility, cloud base framework based development and architecture experience

DevOps tools implementation for CI/CD.

Capacity Management and Emerging technologies

Azure setup.

Good interpersonal and communication skills with ability to build productive relationships across the participants in the ecosystem

Experience with IBM WebSphere Portal Server, IBM WebSphere Process Server, IBM WAS, File Net, JMS etc.
Experience with prominent Architecture frameworks such as Zachman, TOGAF, FEAF
Experience in digital business transformation

10 +year of experience in Solution Architecture , Experience in J2EE Frameworks, open source , , Java Security, JMS, etc)