Job Description

Sr Technology Architect

Qualification :


Engineering Degree Responsibility :

Enterprise Asset Assessment :

• Understand trends in client requirements and identify opportunities to enhance CTS capabilities across different functional areas (technology / infrastructure).
• Evaluate various options and provide inputs in developing blueprint of different enterprise assets from a technology stack perspective.

Solution Conceptualization :

• Study industry trends to remain aware of technology and infrastructure trends.
• Understand internal/external requirements and analyze the need for POC/POT.
• Evaluate various technologies suited for the solution.
• Provide support to other teams for building case for PoC/PoT to senior management in terms of current organizational need and potential benefits.

Solution Definition and Design :

• Provide support during requirement gathering and analysis (technical and infrastructure perspective during downstream assessment) to other teams.
• Interact with client is required to understand their requirements.
• Interact with domain/ product architects and other teams to analyze architectural options for any given solution.
• Analyze tradeoffs and provide recommendations, if any, on the solution architecture.
• Collaborate with delivery team to develop HLD/ functional design Create infrastructure architecture for project based on the requirements.
• Provide solutions from an infrastructure perspective.
• Prepare Proof of Technology.
• Conduct hardware sizing based on non functional requirements.
• Support the team in deployment of the solution.
• Seek inputs on design created from various stakeholders and incorporate relevant changes to design solution.

Project Support :

• Conduct planned and unplanned audits.
• Guide teams in creation of detailed architecture design (database/application).
• Perform architecture design review.
• Identify opportunities for optimization of cost / time / asset utilization in specific projects and advise relevant teams accordingly where possible.
• Interact with clients to provide clarifications and address their queries.
• Manager stakeholder perception.
• Provide advice to teams facing complex technical issues in the course of project delivery.
• Provide technical solutions based on expertise or past experience.
• Provide various possibilities for delivery team to test solution proposed.

Asset Development and Governance :

• Share ideas with Enterprise Architect and team on new assets that can be developed.
• Identify technical challenges that arise during the development of enterprise assets and plan for the same.
• Track utilization of reusable assets / architecture components across the organization.
• Share the utilization report with Enterprise Architect.
• Assist in analyzing metrics and feedback from project teams adopting designed assets.
• Monitor asset effectiveness during realtime implementation.

Business Development Support :

• Scan the market and identify new technology areas which can be adopted in Cognizant.
• Identify new clients or new needs in the existing clients and share suggestions with Enterprise / Solution Architects.
• Develop collaterals for proposals.
• Participate in discussion for client proposals.
• Provide support for developing RFPs.
• Participate in industry seminars/ conference, if required, to share knowledge and build Cognizant brand Calculate and present hardware sizing estimates to management for supporting in go/nogo decisions.

Knowledge Management :

• Publish white papers.
• Maintain a repository of technical solutions, technical best practices and design/coding guidelines/standards.
• Conduct and facilitate knowledge sharing and learning sessions across the team.
• Build awareness of the knowledge repository among other teams.
• Update best practices, white papers, artifacts etc to the database on a regular basis.

Training & Mentoring :

• Provide support in creation of training courses and supporting artifacts on the training server such as demo, presentation.
• Conduct training with the help of academy and mentoring with respect to infrastructure and technology.
• Mentor new entrants in EAS function on an ongoing basis.
• Provide support to various project managers in identification of training needs of their subordinates.
Must Have Skills


• SAP Automation
• SAP BPA(Redwood)
• Vendor Management - Retail