TCS - API - Solutions Architect

Must-Have:

- Strong personal communication and presentation skills and ability to work in ambiguous situations with the customer.

- Ability to relate to people and effectively communicate under stressful circumstances.

- Experience to formulate and capture requirements and understand business objectives of API strategies.

- Practical experience in designing end-to-end solutions involving middleware, ESB and SOA architectures for multi-channels or designing end-to-end solutions

- Manage the end-to-end development process for all post sales solution opportunities including initial communication, on-site presentations, schedule and work estimates and represent TCS on all relevant customer project communications.

- Provide thought leadership with appropriate whitepapers.

- Provide enterprise mobility strategy and work with senior architects to formulate reference architectures for digital solutions across multiple channels and articulate the strengths and weaknesses of approaches

- Experience in working with one of WSO2, APigee , Layer 7 or Mashery API GWs

- Ability to articulate the ROI on APIs through demonstrated use cases in an enterprise either through internal or external APIs.

- Proven track record of success in architecture definitions for internet and or mobile channels

- 8+ years of prior experience in various SDLC roles: development, architecture, requirements gathering etc.

- Proven practical experience with APIs, SOA, REST and webservices and their role in providing end-to-end solutions .

- Proven aptitude developing applications leveraging XML/JSON based RESTful/SOAP APIs.

- Experience with end-to-end delivery

- Experience with one or more backend systems like Oracle , Siebel, SAP , Sharepoint a plus .

Good-to-Have:

- Mobile experience a strong plus

- Prior entrepreneurial experience with demonstrable success & lessons learned

- Responsibility of / Expectations from the Role

- Team management

- Marketing function - Budget creation, Event Management, Media & Analyst relationship, Competitive analysis

- Monitoring and Management of GTM Strategies

- Collaborate with sales teams in taking new offerings to the market

- Work with account teams and customers on specific customer opportunities including ideation workshops, requirements gathering sessions

- Keep abreast of technology developments and mobility applications across industry verticals and appraise practice leadership of the same

- Adhere to all TCS Sales, Human Resource, and corporate ethical policies, standards and guidelines.