Product Architect - L1

The purpose of the role is to create exceptional product architectural design for the existing and new products and enable delivery teams to provide exceptional client engagement and satisfaction.

• Develop architectural designs for the new and existing products
  • Define product requirements and design needs by displaying complete understanding of product vision and business requirements
    • Understand market- driven business needs and objectives; technology trends and requirements to define architecture requirements and strategy
    • Create a product-wide architectural design that ensures systems are scalable, reliable, and compatible with different deployment options
    • Develop theme-based Proof of Concepts (POCs) in order to demonstrate the feasibility of the product idea and realise it as a viable one
    • Analyze, propose and implement the core technology strategy for product development
    • Conduct impact analyses of changes and new requirements on the product development effort
  • Provide solutioning of RFPs received from clients and ensure overall product design assurance as per business needs
    • Collaborate with sales, development, consulting teams to reconcile solutions to architecture
    • Analyse technology environment, enterprise specifics, client requirements to set a product solution design framework/ architecture
    • Provide technical leadership to the design, development and implementation of custom solutions through thoughtful use of modern technology
    • Define and understand current state product features and identify improvements, options & tradeoffs to define target state solutions
    • Clearly articulate, document and sell architectural targets, recommendations and reusable patterns and accordingly propose investment roadmaps
    • Validate the solution/ prototype from technology, cost structure and customer differentiation point of view
    • Identify problem areas and perform root cause analysis of architectural design and solutions and provide relevant solutions to the problem
    • Tracks industry and application trends and relates these to planning current and future IT needs
  • Provides technical and strategic input during the product deployment at the client site
    • Support Delivery team during the product deployment process and resolve complex issues
    • Collaborate with delivery team to develop a product validation and performance testing plan as per the business requirements and specifications.
    • Identifies implementation risks and potential impacts.
  • Maintain product roadmap and provide timely inputs for product upgrades as per the market needs

• • Build and maintain relationships with executives, technical leaders, product owners, peer architects and other stakeholders to become a trusted advisor
  • Develops and establishes relevant technical, business process and overall support metrics (KPI/SLA) to drive results
  • Identify technical, process, structural risks and prepare a risk mitigation plan for the product
  • Ensure quality assurance of all the architecture or design decisions and provides technical mitigation support to the delivery teams
  • Leads the development and maintenance of enterprise framework and related artefacts
  • Develops trust and builds effective working relationships through respectful, collaborative engagement across individual product teams
  • Ensure optimal Client Engagement
    • Support pre-sales team while presenting the entire product design and its principles to the client
    • Negotiate, manage and coordinate with the client teams to ensure all requirements are met and create an impact of solution proposed
    • Demonstrate thought leadership with strong technical capability in front of the client to win the confidence and act as a trusted advisor
• Competency Building and Branding
  • Ensure completion of necessary trainings and certifications
  • Develop Proof of Concepts (POCs),case studies, demos etc. for new growth areas based on market and customer research
  • Develop and present a point of view of Wipro on product design and architect by writing white papers, blogs etc.
  • Attain market referencability and recognition through highest analyst rankings, client testimonials and partner credits
  • Be the voice of Wipros Thought Leadership by speaking in forums (internal and external)
  • Mentor developers, designers and Junior architects for their further career development and enhancement
  • Contribute to the architecture practice by conducting selection interviews etc
• Team Management
  • Resourcing
    • Anticipating new talent requirements as per the market/ industry trends or client requirements
    • Hire adequate and right resources for the team
  • Talent Management
    • Ensure adequate onboarding and training for the team members to enhance capability & effectiveness
    • Build an internal talent pool and ensure their career progression within the organization
    • Manage team attrition
    • Drive diversity in leadership positions
  • Performance Management
    • Set goals for the team, conduct timely performance reviews and provide constructive feedback to own direct reports
    • Ensure that the Performance Nxt is followed for the entire team
  • Employee Satisfaction and Engagement
    • Lead and drive engagement initiatives for the team
    • Track team satisfaction scores and identify initiatives to build engagement within the team