Solution Architect - Optima
Zeta, India

What is the Job like?

• Liaising with Sodexo - Liaising with senior leaders in Sodexo global and individual countries to comprehend and understand how current solutions work for their product lines and help solve their use-cases
• Liaising with product teams - Liaising with various product and program managers of Zeta to assess the cost and scope of changes a solution under consideration may require and to arrive at feasible, optimal approaches for all business requirements
• Requirements specifications - Define and document functional and non-functional requirements, integration and feature specifications, phase releases, and solutions to translate the functional mapping to Zeta’s product landscape. Ensure that the requirements specifications are defined and delivered unambiguously for the engineering teams to develop and deliver the software 
• Functional mapping - Functionally translate and map the business domain to a technological solution domain. While doing this, the solution architect would also leverage her deep experience and background
• Identify constraints - Highlight any long-term risks that may originate as a consequence of design or architectural choice made in the overall system design leading to an incomplete solution mapping and propose enhancementsI
• Implementation - Oversee the delivery of solutions while highlighting corner-cases where the implementation may be lacking. Be the point-of-contact for functional queries that would require domain-specific context to help unblock the team. Work with UAT teams to ensure the comprehensiveness and correctness of the delivered solution
• Communicating with internal stakeholders - Describing the structure, characteristics, behavior, and other aspects of the problem and solution to various project stakeholders

Who should apply for this role?

• 10+ years of total experience as a Solution Architect, Program Manager, Consultant or a Business analyst, (8+ in case of MBA) with services, consulting or product companies
• Should be from an Engineering background (preferably IT, CS)
• Experience in Gift cards/ Prepaid cards/ Benefit solutions/ Payment gateways/ Merchant Acquiring will be a huge advantage
• Should have the ability to comprehend technical products and solutions
• Excellent presentation skills, documentation skills and stakeholder management
• Good experience in conducting workshops with large senior management groups and presenting solutions to a large audience
• Ability to learn fast, communicate effectively and work on complex projects with medium level of ambiguity 
• Must be very strong in setting up processes for efficient delivery
• Should be able to create detailed documents with relevant content (Data flow diagrams, flow charts etc)
• Should be able to communicate effectively with various stakeholders such as business, product, project management, design and in different geographies
• Experience in project management is a plus
• Prior experience in handling multiple large global clients for complex projects is a plus

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