Solutions Architect

About the Company

As a Solution Architect, you are part of Enterprise Architecture team focusing on driving innovation, improving delivery effectiveness and enhancing the overall business agility.

About the Role

You will be responsible for building hybrid solutions with seamless integrations across multiple IT components on-premises and on-cloud. You bring deep technical expertise in designing and delivering end to end high performance, scalable & flexible solutions using cutting edge/emerging technologies including Cloud Computing (IaaS, PaaS and Containerization), Mobility/Responsive Web apps, APIs, microservices, data Integration and DevOps. You work with the direction from Senior Solution Architect and Enterprise Architect to co-create solutions with the rest of the IT delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with various business partners and other departments to create future proof solutions covering digital, automation, APIs, integration and data.
• Provide technical expertise in solving/troubleshooting performance & other non-functional requirements.
• Design integrations and patterns in accordance with architectural standards and drive changes to standards, policies and procedures based on input from service managers and service partners.
• Support critical projects in all phases of delivery on a need basis.
• Review Application, Integration and Solution Architecture to analyze the current IT ecosystem and develop opportunities for improvements.
• Experiment, explore and demonstrate application of new technologies by means of conducting quick prototypes to solve business problems.
• Maintain good technical relationship with partner’s (Banca/broker/aggregators/vendors) technical teams.

Other Responsibilities

• Defining and reviewing continuous delivery, continuous integration, continuous testing (DevOps pipelines) that serve the purpose of provisioning and quality code delivery.
• Stakeholder management at strategic levels in both technical and business functions.
• Focus on continuous service improvement and thought leadership, drive strategic initiatives to help business and partners to achieve their goals.

Measures of Success

• Alignment of IT landscape to overall vision and blueprints.
• Faster, better and cheaper delivery of applications via technology.
• Exceptional user(internal/external) experience, automation and operational efficiency by adoption of new cutting edge technology solutions to solve business problems.
• Trusted partnership with other departments of IT and business.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies, industry trends and best practices.

Qualifications

• B.E / MCA from a reputed institute.
• 9+ years of designing solution and technical architectures with hands-on software development background.
• 7+ years of experience in applications migration to cloud i.e. AWS, Azure etc., building JSON/REST API integrations, Application and Data Integration Stacks - IIB, API Connect, Datapower, Informatica, AWS services.
• Should have architected and delivered at least 2-3 hybrid projects in a technology organization.
• Experience in presenting solutions architecture to peers and senior management.
• Should be working or should have worked with reputed organizations or startups.

Required Skills

• Extensive experience in areas of technologies like Node JS/Java Frameworks, databases, queues, streams, AWS cloud serverless and containers.
• At least 2 years of designing hybrid cloud applications and migrate existing workloads to the cloud.
• Able to recommend the appropriate AWS service based on data, compute, database or security requirements.
• Demonstrated competency with application and data integration platforms (Mulesoft, Apigee, EDW, etc.) and patterns – SOA, APIs, Webservices, Microservices, ETL, Event Processing, BPM, ESB.
• Understanding of BFSI domain, Open Architecture and application integration discipline, concepts and best practices.
• Define cost control mechanisms by suggesting architectural changes & optimizing resource utilization.
• Any prior experience on Implementation of AI, Data Analytics will be a plus.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in presenting solutions architecture to peers and senior management.
• Should be working or should have worked with reputed organizations or startups.