Solution Architect - EBS-Financials

Description

Solution Architect - EBS-Financials

Qualification:

BE/ B Tech/MCA

Responsibility:

Design• End-to-end responsibility for designing and architecting technology solutions.• Coding.• Develop architecture and coding standards, review processes as well as project-specific templates.• Deployment Support and Closure.• Assist and advise for general troubleshooting of platforms and applications.• Knowledge Management.• Identifies new Technologies Standards, Best Practices.• Advocate and define cloud architecture vision strategically, including internal and external platforms, tools, and systems.• Develop a repository of technical solutions, technical best practices, and design/coding guidelines/standards.• Conduct and facilitate knowledge-sharing and learning sessions across the team.• Track contribution to the knowledge management portal.• Update best practices, white papers, artifacts, etc., to the database regularly.• Publish white papers.• Define, execute, and continuously improve internal software architecture processes and technology recommendations.• Certified in one or many of the EAS function areas.• Training and Recruitment / People Management.• Assist and guide senior managers and teams in developing highly scalable, reliable, secure solutions.• Participate in senior-level talent selection.• Set clear and objective goals for the team & Conduct appraisals.• Identify, prioritize, and deploy action items for competency development.• Review progress on employee engagement activities in the architecture track.• Direct and guide other managers/team leaders on resolving employee complaints.• Identify, groom, reward, and develop high performers and future leaders.• Mentor all architects in the EAS function.• Project Planning and Set up.• Conduct project estimations by analyzing business requirements.• Identify or build templates to conduct project estimations.• Review all estimates as created by the architect(s).• Articulate estimation methodology and module-level estimations (with a focus on effort estimation) for projects/assignments with higher complexity, risks, and dependencies.• Provide inputs and support to project/program management for project estimates.• Identify "roadblocks" during solution implementation and provide mitigation.• Requirement Gathering and Analysis.• Provide support during requirement gathering and analysis (technical perspective during downstream assessment) to the teams.• Understand business processes, cases, and functions.• Understand business problems and impact.• Analyze existing enterprise architecture.• Solution Conceptualization.• Lead development of enterprise-wide technology on-premise or cloud-based architectures.• Good knowledge of known architectures and solution frameworks, as well as usage of modeling techniques.• Develop solutions architecture and evaluate architectural alternatives for private, public and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services.• Study industry trends to remain aware of technology trends.• Understand internal/external requirements.• Analyze the need for POC based on the strategic roadmap laid out by the enterprise architect.• Guide architects to evaluate various products/ technologies suited for the solution.• Review the solution prepared by other architects.• Ensure the solution fits holistically in the overall Enterprise Architecture design and does not violate architectural principles.• Conduct economic analysis of architecture.• Support other teams in building cases for PoC to senior management in terms of current organizational needs and potential benefits.• Define technical software architectures to drive business and technology strategies.• Solution Definition and Design.• Formulate conceptual architectures and communicate architectural vision, goals, and design objectives to multiple audiences.• Provide guidance to the solution architect around the usage of patterns/anti-patterns in the solution.• Rephrase the solution if required to minimize the risk of the solution.• Ensure CTS architecture principles and QOA(Quality of Architecture) are maintained.• Analyze tradeoffs and provide recommendations, if any, on the solution architecture.• Understand business processes, cases, and functions.• Understand business problems and impact.• Analyze existing enterprise architecture and evaluate other technology/ frameworks.• Understand requirements, analyze feasibility, and provide recommendations.• Provide support in the creation of functional design, logical design, test design, and design overview documents.• Project Support.• Conduct planned and unplanned audits for complex projects.• Perform architecture design review.• Identify opportunities for optimizing cost/time/asset utilization in complex projects and advise relevant teams where possible.• Manage stakeholder perception.• Provide advice to teams facing complex technical issues during project delivery.• Review design artifacts and code created by developers / senior developers to ensure it meets architectural requirements, quality, and on-time delivery.• Track various quality metrics around architecture, design and code.• Perform cognizant audits for other projects as appropriate to ensure Codenizant principles are implemented.• Review all outputs across all SDLC phases from design to testing to ensure NFRs are met.• Provide support and technical governance, expertise related to cloud architectures, deployment, and operations.• 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 discussions for client proposals.• Provide support for developing RFPs.• Participate in industry seminars/conferences, if required, to share knowledge and build the Cognizant brand.• Conduct occasional training sessions and participate in consultancy, presales, and bid defense meetings.• Alliance Management.• Identify alliance partners based on the understanding of service offerings and client requirements.• Identify areas for joint GTM with the partner.• Develop internal capabilities/complementary toolsets to support the GTM strategy.• Maintain the relationship with partners.• Act as the Cognizant technical POC for the specific technology/solution area.

Must-Have Skills• EBS-General Ledger• EBS-Financials Accounting Hub

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Qualifications

Technical Skills

SNo

Primary Skill

Proficiency Level *

Rqrd./Dsrd.

1

EBS-General Ledger

PL4

Required

2

EBS-Financials Accounting Hub

PL4

Required

* Proficiency Legends

Proficiency Level

Generic Reference

PL1

The associate has basic awareness and comprehension of the skill and is in the process of acquiring this skill through various channels.

PL2

The associate possesses working knowledge of the skill, and can actively and independently apply this skill in engagements and projects.

PL3

The associate has comprehensive, in-depth and specialized knowledge of the skill. She / he has extensively demonstrated successful application of the skill in engagements or projects.

PL4

The associate can function as a subject matter expert for this skill. The associate is capable of analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing solutions using the skill.