Remote- AWS Cloud Architect - Cognizant Technology Solutions

AWS Cloud Architect

Qualification:

Responsibility:

Innovation and Thought Leadership:

• • Participate in external forums (seminars paper presentation etc) to showcase Cognizant capabilities and insights under guidance of senior team members.

• • Understand client's existing business and explore new avenues to save cost and bring process efficiency.

• • Identify business opportunities to create reusable components/accelerators and reuse existing components and best practices.

• • Support the patent filing process for the IP assets created (applicable to some CoEs).

Technology Consulting:

• • In collaboration with the Sr Architect analyze application/ technology landscape process tools and arrive at the solution options best fit for the client.

• • Analyze Cost Vs Benefits of solution options.

• Support Sr Architect to create a technology/ architecture roadmap for the client.

Alliance Management:

• • Identify alliance partners based on the understanding of service offerings and client requirements.

• • In collaboration with Sr Architect create a compelling business case around the offerings.

• • Conduct beta testing of the offerings.

Knowledge Management & Capability Development:

• ' • Publish and Maintain a repository of solutions best practices and standards and other knowledge articles.

• • Conduct and facilitate knowledge sharing and learning sessions across the team.

• • Gain industry standard certifications on technology and architecture consulting.

• • Support Technical skill building (including hiring and training) for the team based on inputs from project manager.

• • Mentor new members in the team in technical areas.

• Gain and cultivate domain expertise to provide best and optimized solution to customer.

People Management:

• • Set goals & Manage performance of reporting team members.

• • Provide career guidance to team members.

Asset Development and Governance:

• ' • Understand the plan for asset development.

• • Design assets as per plan (if required).

• • Conduct pilot run/review to validate the assets as feasible.

• • Track utilization of reusable assets / architecture components across the organization.

Sales Support and Project Estimation:

• ' • Support for developing RFPs and collaterals for proposals from a technical solution/ estimation/ risks perspective.

• • Conduct demo's and arrange for the demos based on client profiles if required.

• • Anchor proposal development with cross linkages across multiple competency units to arrive at a coherent solution proposal with focus on presenting unique value propositions and clear differentiators.

Requirement gathering and Analysis:

• ' • Work with customer and other teams to collect analyze and understand the requirements including NFRs.

• • Analyze gaps/ trade offs based on current system context/ industry practices and clarify the requirements by working with the customer.

Solution Definition & Design:

• • Develop / Enhance the solution architecture (Application / technical / Infrastructure as applicable) meeting functional / non functional requirements and aligned to industry best practices.

• • Solution Design (including Data modeling Application design Infrastructure design Team structure) & Capacity sizing to meet the requirements & SLAs of target state and in transition as applicable.

• • Identify Proof Of Concept testing (POC) needs and conduct POCs as applicable.

• • Identify need for developing accelerators and Develop as applicable specific to the engagement.

• • Identify key technical metrics to measure the SLA / requirements compliance.

• • Define adopt and create required documentation on standards and guidelines.

Stakeholder Management:

• ' • Monitor the concerns of internal stakeholders follow through on commitments and achieve timely resolution of issues.

• • Conduct initiatives to meet client expectations.

• • Work to expand professional network in the client organization.

Business and Technical Research:

• • Analyze market trends / client requirements/ secondary research.

• • Identify new ideas and provide inputs to senior stakeholders for developing blueprint / PoC.

Brand Building:

• ' • 'Organize/ Participate in events like webinars boot camps seminar conference client conference to showcase the capability.

• • Identify opportunities to cross solutionize across project(s) within or outside the BU.