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15/06 Shirish Rao
Director at Zalent Consulting Pvt Ltd

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Cloud & Systems Architect - IT (6-15 yrs)

Mumbai Job Code: 1111342

The Technical Architect is the highest technical expertise within the Digital Infrastructure and Operation Department.

The Technical Architect is a technical leader, adviser and has a deep understanding of his domains. He's accountable on availability, performance, security and lifecycle of all solutions comprised in his domain.

His responsibilities are also oriented in proposing, developing and designing architectures to meet Business requirements & compliances within global IS landscape. This includes but not only, the accountability in delivering Infrastructure standards and technical designs. He also contributes to architecture strategy and infrastructure projects roadmap in collaboration with Enterprise Architecture entity.

Key accountabilities:

ARCHITECTURE:

- Manage activities that take place during solution ideation, solution design, and solution implementation.

- Provide guideline for technology usage. Validate and confirm the interoperability with existing infrastructure

- Create and maintain a dynamic strategy on his domain and manage the adoption process.

- Communicate the architecture to the stakeholders and collaborate/coordinate with existing domain architects in the formalization and adoption of IT standards and procedures.

- Work closely with IT security to ensure compliancy with overall security guidelines and requirements.

- Act as an escalation point for arbitrating on technical decisions, in a collective and transparent way.

- Maintenance of up-to-date standards, in line with technology evolutions, and Business requirements in relation with Enterprise Architecture team.

- Handle the identification and recommendation of appropriate solutions, upgrades, replacements, or decommissioning options incorporating business and technology productivity, usability, and total cost of ownership.

- Develops Mid-term plan infrastructure product / service strategy in relation with Enterprise Architecture team and execute transformation in accordance with this MTP.

- Active contribution during the Architecture Review Boards, to ensure all solutions take place in an aligned and coordinated way that matches overall security guidelines and compliance requirements.

- Conduct technology watch in his field of expertise in a proactive way and drive proof of concept of relevant technologies in relation with Enterprise Architecture team. Update the tech radar accordingly.

- Understand business requirements and define the target solution in accordance with the company challenges. Recommend potential options, (which may include RFIs, RFPs or POC), select the most optimal one, and maintain the roadmap.

- Interact with local and regional business representatives, Digital Business team, Security teams and Enterprise Architecture.

- Manage suppliers and vendors relationship on his scope.

- Constantly inform our service managed partner on technology roadmap to ensure proper take over and management of future solutions.

BUILD ACTIVITES:

- Deliver application designs fulfilling functional & technical requirements, consistent with the Company IT global architecture, ensuring robustness, performance, ergonomics, upgradability and simplicity of use. This includes Business applications related projects, and also the technical and system layers needed.

- Analyze risks related to incoming projects and guide the appropriate technical recommendations.

- Ensure, as part of project design phase, the complete TCO of the target architecture.

- Guarantee the alignment of the deployed architecture with the approved design.

RUN ACTIVITIES:

- Regularly assess solutions to meet functional compliance and financial TCO.

- Contribute to RUN cost optimization by providing infrastructure and solution improvement.

- Give support on complex incidents and problems to technical administrator teams.

- Contribute to the CMDB updates.

- Analyzes and advises technical orientation to ensure non-standard change / evolution compliancy with current Global Digital infrastructure and strategy.

- Gather all related obsolescence information on current infrastructure from technical administrator teams in order to contribute with EA team to the obsolescence roadmap and MTP.

- Advise on skills and knowledge requirements in regard to the future technologies define in the MTP.

Specificities:

Cloud Related Accountabilities

- Delivery of cloud application designs, cloud approval plans for Digital projects.

- Offer guidance in technical infrastructure movement including bulk application transfers into the cloud.

- Identify the top cloud architecture solutions to successfully meet the strategic needs of the company.

- Work closely with Enterprise Architecture on cloud strategy and assist in the adaption process.

- Regularly evaluate cloud applications to meet functional compliance and financial TCO.

- Challenge the cloud part of designs from others architect and solution vendors.Keep Cloud solutions standards up to date, in line with technology evolutions, and Business requirements.

FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES:

- In-depth understanding of IT infrastructure Service Operations and Service Transition including identifying the gaps between the reference architecture and actual solution on the ground, and then developing action plans to close these gaps.

- Ability to work with teams across geographical locations with various functional & technical expertise.

- High security sensitivity, result oriented with ability to manage stakeholders and contractors

- Ability to work globally with diverse nationalities in a matrix environment.

- Capacity to have in-depth understanding of IT infrastructure Service Strategy and Service Design, including identification the gaps between the current and future states and developing approaches to close these gaps.

- Ability to influence changes to standards when necessary.

- RFP experience including, SLA development, contract development, review and approval.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES:

Strategic level :

- EA development (Togaf)

- Infrastructure planning

Operational:

- Solution design

- Requirements Management

Technical

Specific Competencies :

- Expertise on Microsoft infrastructure technologies such as Windows Server, SQL DB, Active Directory

- Expertise on virtualized infrastructure solution such as Hyper-V and/or VMWare

- Knowledges of Linux operating systems

- Experiences in building complex architectures involving system, network and cloud components

- Having knowledges on Network technologies linked to Microsoft Domains systems and environments

- Ability to understand and manage business solution technical platform

- Experience on current computing trends and cloud computing technologies, including Microsoft Azure Iaas, PaaS, AWS, O365.

Education:

- Bachelor of Engineering or related IT college / university degree

Experience:

- Minimum 6 to 8 years' experience executing and supporting IT solutions with up to 3 to 6 years in technical design activities.

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Maternity and Paternity Benefits

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