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 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