Tech Solution Architect
Unison Consulting Pte Ltd, India
Job Description
Business Function
Group Technology and Operations (Tamp;O) enables and empowers the bank with an efficient, nimble and resilient Services and infrastructure through a strategic focus on productivity, quality amp; control, technology, people capability and innovation. In Group Tamp;O, we manage the majority of the Bank's operational processes and inspire to delight our business partners through our multiple banking delivery channels.
Responsibilities
Subject Matter Expertise- Act as visionary and strategist for solution/application area
• Survey market landscape for solution/application insights, direction, vendors, and methods
• Provides expertise to identify and translate system requirements into software design artifacts
• Make presentations at internal conferences and author internal publications.
• Act as technology leaders within our wider digital and technology practices, providing thought leadership, guidance and coaching to junior members of team.
Early Ideation- Help business development life cycle by serving as a solution SME to help identify and qualify business development opportunities
• Provide end to end solution and design details
• Drive POCs to assess new solution/application paths
• Lead / participate in product selection process and fit gap analysis
Responsible for the change in delivery and deployment strategy for all
• Maintain and monitor all aspects of the application:
• Interoperability
• Performance and scalability
• Reliability and availability
• Application lifecycle stage
• Technological risks
• Number of instances / countries
• Functionality and Capability
• Maintain and monitor all aspects of the application:
- Interoperability
- Performance and scalability
- Reliability and availability
- Application lifecycle stage
- Technological risks
- Number of instances / countries
- Functionality and Capability
• Understand the system process flow of the primary business processes. Give a clear picture of the functionality map and the applications footprint of various applications across the map.
• Hands-on involvement in Agile, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), and outcome-based delivery model is essential.
• Responsible for the change in delivery and deployment strategy for all
Methodology and Quality Assurance - Lead development of formalized solution methodologies
• Create, Manage amp; Update repository for solution/application artifacts
• Interface and coordinate tasks with internal and external technical resources. Collaborate with Project Managers and technical staff to provision estimates, develop overall implementation solution/application plan, and serve as a lead as required, to implement the installation, customization, and integration efforts
• Contribute during project life cycle, from initial kickoff through requirements analysis, design and implementation phases for projects within the solution/application area
• Provide quality assurance for services within the solution/application area
• Write, or direct the writing of white papers that add further insight and thought in the solution/application area
• Drive a target and consistent application architecture across the enterprise and different platforms in the bank considering various business functions amp; geographic locations.
• Drive application amp; technical architectures to ensure scalability, data consistency, speed of access, appropriate monitoring amp; instrumentation
• Translate functional and non-functional requirements into design within the enterprise context; help business and technology define appropriate non-functional requirements and help in assessing the error budget defined.
• Ensure application architecture uses best in breed enterprise wide and open source tools.
• Create deployment strategies for existing and new services based on business objectives.
• Document and create reusable architecture and design specifications.
• Provide strategic and tactical solutions for technical issues.
• Manage different stakeholders to arrive at end-to-end technical design.
• Interact professionally with a diverse people such as management, executives and SMEs.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the development team, during the SDLC. Get development team's buy-in into accepting the design to be implemented.
• Ensure that the solution architecture aligns with the roadmaps established by the enterprise architecture, and that it adheres to the enterprise architecture principles. Act as the bridge between Enterprise / Application Architecture and Delivery.
• Document and manage how multiple applications are poised to work together.