Solutions Architect Azure

About the job

Principal Architect

Qualification

• Bachelors in science, engineering, or equivalent

Responsibility

Innovation and Thought Leadership

• Participate in external forums (seminars, paper presentation, etc.) to showcase Cognizant capabilities and insights.
• Interact and engage with customers/partners around new innovative ideas, concepts, assets, as well as industry trends and implications.
• Participate in Beta testing of products/joint lab setup with the customer to explore the application of new technologies/products.
• Identify areas where components/accelerators or design patterns could be reused across different accounts.
• Create documents, reports, white papers (international/national) on the research findings.

Technology Consulting

• Define Problem statement for the customer.
• Analyze application/technology landscape, process, tools and arrive at the solution options best fit for the client.
• Analyze Cost Vs Benefits of solution options.
• Define the technology/architecture roadmap for the client.
• Articulate the cost vs benefits of options to key stakeholders in the customer.

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.

Knowledge Management & Capability Development

• Provide inputs to teams for training etc.
• Identify the training needs and conduct internal sessions to meet the same.
• Partner with Cognizant academy to Create curriculum, assessments, training programs, courseware based on new service offerings/solutions etc.
• Update collateral on to the knowledge management repository.
• Gain and cultivate domain expertise to provide the best and optimized solution to the customer.

Project Control and Review

• Perform architecture design review.
• Identify opportunities for optimization of cost/time/asset utilization in complex projects and advise relevant teams accordingly where possible.
• Provide advice to teams facing complex technical issues in the course of project delivery.
• Conduct planned and unplanned technical audits for complex projects as applicable.
• Define and measure project/program specific architectural and technology quality metrics.
• Review outputs to ensure NFRs are met.