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Solutions Architect Azure

Cognizant Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Posted: 10 Jun 2024

Financial

  • Salary unspecified
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Office Only
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional

Position

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
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