Role Purpose
The purpose of the role is overall development of the target Architecture through defining the technology roadmap for own business/ domain. Recognized as the subject matter expert for a specific domain and provides expert advice & guidance to different business stakeholders
Do
Develop architectural application for the new deals/ major change requests in existing deals
Creates enterprise wide business/ domain architecture deliverables (enabling, diagnostic and actionable) focused on the target audience and its issues and opportunities
Look for opportunities to use high-level business and operating models (business capability and value chain), combined with or relating to business, people, information, technology and solutions.
Contributes to the Target Architecture, by developing and maintaining the technology roadmap for area of expertise and ensuring that roadmap remains aligned to the Business Strategy
Recognizing innovative use of technology for increasing performance measures
Works with other IS and business stakeholders to drive the development and adoption of the target architecture for own domain
Establish domain specific standards, near/mid-term strategy, and roadmaps, in adherence to, and in support of Enterprise standards, strategy, and roadmaps.
Guide a solution from concept to delivery – envision and create solutions that meet requirements
Prove the feasibility of a design; and can ultimately be implemented and supported in the Production environment
Oversee product/ platform engineering, protocol map development, virtualization as per the business solution requirements
Apply architectural and engineering concepts to design a solution that meets operational requirements, such as scalability, maintainability, security, reliability, extensibility, flexibility, availability, and manageability.
Participate and lead research and development efforts (proof of concept, prototypes), as subject matter experts, when introducing new technologies, in conjunction with team and Product Owners
Partners with IT and line of business functional groups to communicate and clarify business needs, contributes to the development of long-range system plans, and ensures that IT products, services and processes are aligned with line of business needs.
Define high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the current and future state, typically in sync with the IT budgeting or other capital planning processes
Provides technology consulting to solution architects, junior staff members, and others who are using or modifying multiple domain technologies within a solution, insuring the technology operates coherently to meet overall needs
Interaction with EA, OEMs, Technical leads for defining business solutions
Depending on the client’s need with particular standards and technology stacks create complete RFPs
Clearly articulate and sell architectural targets, recommendations and reusable patterns and accordingly propose investment roadmaps
Provide solution of RFP’s received from clients and ensure overall design assurance
Develop a direction to manage the portfolio of all the business/ domain requirements including systems, shared infrastructure services in order to better match business outcome objectives
Analyse technology environment, enterprise specifics, client requirements to set a collaboration solution for the big/small data
Provide technical leadership to the implementation of custom solutions through thoughtful use of modern technology
Define and understand current issues and problems and identify improvements
Evaluate and recommend solutions to integrate with overall technology ecosystem keeping consistency throughout
Understand the root cause problem in integrating business and product units
Validate the solution/ prototype from technology, cost structure and customer differentiation point of view
Collaborating with sales and delivery leadership teams to identify future needs and requirements
Tracks industry and application trends and relates these to planning current and future IT needs
Understanding enterprise requirements and provide solutions for technical ecosystem
Creating Intellectual Property in forms of services, patterns, models and organizational approaches.
Bring knowledge of automation in application by embracing Agile and dev-ops principles to reduce manual part
Responsible for successfully applying the technology in their domain to solve business problems in a supportable, cost effective, way
Analyze the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement. In addition, analyze the technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the enterprise as well as on the enterprise technology architecture
Develop a direction to manage the portfolio of to-be-solutions including systems, shared infrastructure services, applications in order to better match business outcome objectives
Provide platform to create standardize tools, uniform design and techniques are maintained to reduce costs of maintenance
Seamless integration and advising of new and existing systems to eliminate potential problems and maintain data structure and bring value in terms of development
Serve as technical owner and point of contact for domain specific solutions and provide technical leadership to the design, development and implementation of custom solutions through thoughtful use of modern technology
Enable Delivery Teams by providing optimal delivery solutions/ frameworks
Build and maintain relationships with executives, technical leaders, product owners, peer architects and other stakeholders to become a trusted advisor
Collaborate with enterprise architect for translating business strategy to execution
Develops and establishes relevant technical, business process and overall support metrics (KPI/SLA) to drive results
Bring value in terms of quality in development activities by leveraging cloud based and scalable infrastructure
Identify technical, process, structural risks and prepare a risk mitigation plan for all the projects
Ensure quality assurance of all the architecture or design decisions and provides technical mitigation support to the delivery teams
Recommend tools for reuse, automation for improved productivity and reduced cycle times
Leads the development and maintenance of enterprise framework and related artefacts
Develops trust and builds effective working relationships through respectful, collaborative engagement across individual product teams
Provide architectural oversight of projects; ensure requirements are in alignment with business strategies and business architecture roadmap/framework.
Ensure solutions developed across organization are aligned to enterprise architecture standards and principles, leverage common solutions and services, and meet financial targets (cost and benefits).
Negotiate, manage and coordinate with the client teams to ensure all requirements are met and create an impact of solution proposed
Demonstrate thought leadership with strong technical capability in front of the client to win the confidence and act as a trusted advisor
Competency Building and Branding
Ensure completion of necessary trainings and certifications
Develop Proof of Concepts (POCs), case studies, demos etc. for new growth areas based on market and customer research
Develop and present a point of view of Wipro on application design and architect by writing white papers, blogs etc.
Attain market referencability and recognition through highest analyst rankings, client testimonials and partner credits
Be the voice of Wipro’s Thought Leadership by speaking in forums (internal and external)
Mentor developers, designers and Junior architects in the project for their further career development and enhancement
Contribute to the architecture practice by conducting selection interviews etc
Team Management
Resourcing
Anticipating new talent requirements as per the market/ industry trends or client requirements
Hire adequate and right resources for the team
Talent Management
Ensure adequate onboarding and training for the team members to enhance capability & effectiveness
Build an internal talent pool and ensure their career progression within the organization
Manage team attrition
Drive diversity in leadership positions
Performance Management
Set goals for the team, conduct timely performance reviews and provide constructive feedback to own direct reports
Ensure that the Performance Nxt is followed for the entire team
Employee Satisfaction and Engagement
Lead and drive engagement initiatives for the team
Track team satisfaction scores and identify initiatives to build engagement within the team
Stakeholder Interaction
Stakeholder Type Stakeholder Identification Purpose of Interaction
Internal Delivery teams Review of architectural process deployment in engagements, escalation management, issue resolution, delivery assurance and excellence
Pre-sales team For solutioning and architectural design purpose
Quality Assurance Periodic review of architecture
Practice teams To understand the different solution portfolios
Holmes engineering and roll out For automation purpose
Talent Transformation Team, Competency Group Plan and support delivery of Technical Trainings, knowledge sharing
HRBP For hiring and managing resources
External Vendors/ Partners For strategic alignment and partnerships, training
Industry forums Best practices, market intelligence, knowledge sharing, customer architectural council
JD
Area Job Description Skill
MPLS SW Development Expertise in working with Datacom devices in Embedded Linux. Telecom Switching Routing NE Layer2 SW

C, C++ Programming
Proficient in C programming.
Experience in development of following protocols: MPLS, VPLS, LDP, L3VPN, RSVP, BGP, MPLS-OAM.
Good knowledge in standalone, chassis based architecture, management protocols SNMP
Debugging issues in complex network topologies
Deep knowledge in TCP/IP,socket programming, multithreaded applications, IPC
Preferably working experience in Broadcom/Marvell ASICs Development experience
Forwarding/Data plane concepts/ACL configuration
Debugging using GDB / Wireshark/ Log-analysis
Willing to dynamically adapt to the new project environment and maintain good client / team interactions.
Experience: 5 to 15+ years
Display
Lists the competencies required to perform this role effectively:
Functional Competencies/ Skill
Domain/Industry Knowledge – Awareness and knowledge of broad economic, demographic, technological and global trends within own ecosystem – Master
Market Intelligence – Deep specialized understanding of the ecosystem practice, overall market & competition and nuances of delivery in that domain – Master
Systems Thinking – Understanding of the Wipro system (interrelatedness, interdependencies and boundaries) and perform problem solving in a complex environment – Expert
Leveraging Technology – In-depth knowledge of and mastery over ecosystem technology that commands expert authority respect – Master
Asset reusability – ability to re-use the assets to ensure scalability and optimization – Expert
Technical knowledge – architecture design principles, framework and documentation – Master
Competency Levels
Foundation Knowledgeable about the competency requirements. Demonstrates (in parts) frequently with minimal support and guidance.
Competent Consistently demonstrates the full range of the competency without guidance. Extends the competency to difficult and unknown situations as well.
Expert Applies the competency in all situations and is serves as a guide to others as well.
Master Coaches others and builds organizational capability in the competency area. Serves as a key resource for that competency and is recognised within the entire organization.
Behavioral Competencies
Strategic perspective
Stakeholder Management
Technology Acumen
Innovation
Managing Complexity
Client centricity
Execution excellence
Self-Learning
Domain Experience
Change agility
Passion for results
Nurturing people
Executive presence
Deliver
No. Performance Parameter Measure
1. Support sales team to create wins % of proposals with Quality Index >7, timely support of the proposals, identifying opportunities/ leads to sell services within/ outside account (lead generation), no. of proposals led
2. Delivery support CSAT, delivery as per cost, quality and timelines, Identify and develop resuable components, utilization %, Recommend tools for reuse, automation for improved productivity and reduced cycle times, # of reusable components
3. Capability development % trainings and certifications completed, increase in ACE certifications, thought leadership content developed (white papers, Wipro PoVs)
4. Practice Building Identifying opportunities for architects in the account and outside through known contacts, Contribute towards domain and technology accelerator kits, Mentoring junior architects
5. Team Management Team attrition %, Employee satisfaction score
Telecom Switching Routing NE Layer2 SW