Solution Architect - BFS

Roles and Responsibilities :

1. Act as visionary and strategist for solution/application area

2. Survey market landscape for solution/application insights, direction, vendors, and methods

3. Provide expertise to identify and translate system requirements into software design artefacts

4. Prepare presentations for internal conferences and authorship internal in publications

5. Early Ideation

6. Assist business development life cycle by serving as a solution SME to help identify and qualify business development opportunities

7. Provide end-to-end solution and design details

8. Drive POCs to assess new solution/application paths

9. Lead and participate in product selection process and fit gap analysis

10. Contribute to a repository for solution/application artifacts

11. Interface and coordinate tasks with internal and external technical resources. Collaborates 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

12. Write, or direct the writing of white papers that add further insight and thought in the solution/application area

13. Work Force Management, Supervision and Mentoring

14. Manage a team of direct reports (if applicable) who drive service lines in the solution/application area

15. Assists staffing coordinators who define project team requirements for projects in solution/application area

16. Understand the system process flow of the primary business processes. It gives a clear picture of the functionality map and the applications footprint of various applications across the map.

17. Solution that monitor all aspects of the application : 

a. Interoperability capability

b. Performance and scalability

c. Reliability and availability

d. Application lifecycle stage

e. Technological risks

f. Number of instances / country

g. Functionality and Capability

Required Skills :

1. Experience in Microservices design and development. Should be able to guide team on microservice architecture.

2. Knowledge of cloud technologies platforms PCF, AWS, GCP etc will be an added advantage.

3. Deep End-to-End Enterprise Architecture understanding, including Enterprise Java Stack (JEE), Rich UI and Front-End technologies, mobile applications, Mainframe technologies, Databases, Data Warehouses, and Core Banking solutions.

4. Strong communication skills including engaging senior management on strategic plans, leading project steering committees and status updates etc.

5. Experienced in Agile methodology.

6. Ability to work independently and handle multiple concurrent initiatives

7. Excellent organizational, vendor management, negotiation, and prioritization skills

8. Excellent team player with strong interpersonal skills

9. Proactive and able to work under pressure, strong problem-solving skills and positive 'can do' attitude