Solution Architect

• Define solutions in an agile way with an appreciation for evolving architectures
• Have a good knowledge of key architectural characteristics that need to be defined, derived, documented, and evolved while playing the role of an architect in an Agile way of working
• Eager to contribute to the development activities when the situation demands
• Able to work in different solution definition requests across different business domains at a given point of time
• Able to plan work for self and the team according to the bandwidth

Technical Mastery:

• Has proven experience in defining solutions beyond intranet - Internet & Extranet based solutions
• Able to explain the impact of choosing one technology stack over the other, one architectural style vs the other and on prem vs cloud
• Act as a referent on architectural styles, patterns & solutions and able to communicate with developers at different levels of experience
• Proven experience in defining solutions involving AI/ML/Chatbots
• Confident in technology conversations with multiple stakeholders - Developers / Peers / Architects / Product Leaders/Cross-region community members
• Experience in preparing architecture documentations in line with the expectations using the standard tools
• Proven contribution to reusable assets, using corporate standards (Boiler plate, Utilities, etc)
• Proven experience in leading and facilitating discussions around technology topics
• Has experience defining and shaping up community - focus areas, road map, facilitating events etc

• Identify areas/problem statements that can take advantage of highly reactive & responsive architecture styles and propose the same to the stakeholders at different levels
• Define solutions considerate of the agile best practices, their influences by defining just enough architecture and letting the architecture evolve
• Experienced in App modernization, digitization of application portfolio and implement appropriate techniques in the solutions
• Review solutions, designs and proposals
• Identify opportunities to enhance the optimization of the compute/memory/networking resources in existing solutions
• Propose more than one option for a solution, validate/review the options against the trade-offs and communicate the same
• Identify the varied operational characteristics required for a solution and define the right infrastructure and resource requirements in alignment to the corporate and business/product roadmap
• Be able to tailor the technology stack for the solution and suggest new technologies that can be used to solve the specific problem statement through PoCs / case studies

• Proven experience in leading interest groups across different business domains
• Experienced in recognizing repeating pattern of problem statements, define, convince and implement effective solutions
• Understands the modern advances in the area of expertise and implements the right approaches particularly around defining cost effective solutions using cloud, reusable components and tools
• Good knowledge on integration patterns and implements the right integration solutions for the problem statement
• Assists the team in gaining familiarity in how applying best practices be it design patterns, software craftsmanship, object-oriented patterns can help deliver easy to maintain products
• Educate the teams on the corporate technology standards, solution options, libraries, components, and platforms
• Willing to train teams on the technology advances / case studies / solution definitions has context menu