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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.
