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 them.
- 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.
People Management
- Provide support to various project managers in the identification of training needs of their subordinates.
- Conduct training/certifications with the help of the academy and mentoring regarding technical skills on projects.
- Support technical evaluation of external and internal candidates to meet project requirements.
- Perform career guidance and performance management for team members.
Asset Development and Governance
- Provide thought leadership in conceptualizing the need and design of assets.
- Track the implementation of assets.
- Improve asset effectiveness.
- Improve deployment effectiveness.
Sales Support and Project Estimation
- Develop collaterals for proposals.
- Conduct workshops at the client site to assist the sales team in sales support, if required.
- Compare various designs and propose appropriate technology solutions based on the understanding of the RFP and inputs from Architects.
- Calculate and present estimates based on high-level designs to management for supporting go/nogo decisions.
- Review estimations and resource plan.
- Review risk and mitigation plan.
- Anchor proposal development with cross-linkages across multiple competency units and arrive at a coherent solution, unique value propositions, and clear differentiators.
- Participate in client presentation and client visits.
New Service Design
- Identify potential opportunities for new service offerings based on customer voice/partner inputs/industry connects and trends.
- Support the development of a business case for investments for approval from senior management.
- Work with partners to co-develop a joint GTM (as applicable).
- Develop IP/tools and framework to address the opportunity technically.
- Conduct beta testing / POC as applicable.
- Develop collaterals, guides for GTM.
Requirement Gathering and Analysis
- Understand the requirements from a larger system/transformation program context.
- Validate the cross-application/cross-technology requirements to ensure integratability and reconciliation of conflicting requirements by working with customers and other stakeholders.
Solution Definition & Design
- Ensure alignment of the high-level architecture with the existing client need and business logic/review design prepared by architects.
- Ensure the involvement of the right teams in solution design.
- Ensure technical integratability, requirements compliance of the solution, especially in the case of a multi-group/multi-vendor program.
- Involve external partners/horizontals as appropriate.
- Provide guidance to solution architect around usage of patterns/anti-patterns in the solution.
- Ensure CTS architecture principles and QOA(Quality of Architecture) are maintained.
- Analyze tradeoffs and provide recommendations if any, on the solution architecture.
- Identify opportunities for efficiency improvements (e.g., automation), risk reduction in the transformation process.
- Understand the various workstreams and the technologies necessary to deliver on large programs.
- Resolve any issues based on industry expertise/partners leverage.
- Provide best-in-class technology and solution options to customers with detailed examples and case studies.
- Guide the customer on process and technology improvements to achieve agility and quick results.
Stakeholder Management
- Build credibility with the client as a technical goto person.
- Work to expand the professional network in the client organization.
Project Management Support
- Proactive identification and management of technical risks.
Must Have Skills
- Databricks SQL
- Databricks Workflows
- Azure Data Lake Store
- PySpark
Good To Have Skills
- Spark in Scala
- Databricks Workspace Admin
- Databricks CLI
- Databricks Unity Catalog
- Delta Live Pipelines
- Structured Streaming
- Kafka
- Azure Monitor
- Azure Key Vault
- Azure DevOps
- Azure Event Hub
- Python
