Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd

Technology Architect

Qualification:BE/ B Tech / Product certifications especially for Cloud products

Responsibility:Design
– Understand various functional and non functional requirements.
– Break down the requirements into smaller modules.
– Apply knowledge of product provided frameworks for effective design.
– Provide inputs for categorizing critical and noncritical requirements.
– Develop proof of concept.
– Implement key integration patterns using relevant integration technology.
– Understand implications of performance and security in solutions.
– Provide inputs in designing end to end solution from a technical perspective.
– Review and approve system architecture design.
– Expert knowledge of development lifecycles such as Agile methodologies.
– Present the architecture to customers and seek signoff.
– Work on specific test cases for technology intensive modules such as multicloud integrations, cloud security.
Coding.
– Analyze allocated task and understand BRD, low level and high level design.
– Allocate modules to developers for coding.
– Provide guidance to developers and set standards.
– Understand and educate the team on the database concepts.
– Write efficient queries and understand logical and physical data models – Review pseudo codes written by developers and provide a go ahead for code development.
– Prepare for incremental code creation and unit testing.
– Oversee development process and update Project Manager on development progress.
– Identify future product version releases and implications on code.
– Use internal reusable components or vendor specified accelerators for coding.
– Review final codes written by developers on adherence to standards/functionality and approve for testing.
follow up with Developers to ensure integration of components (input / output).
– Troubleshoot critical technical issues.
– Address and resolve escalations related to critical technical issues.
– Prepare weekly/monthly reports on the project and share with client/Project Manager.
Ensure all system builds are prepared on time.
Testing.
– Review test cases written by team Provide support for development of integration test cases as required.
– Participate in defect triage meetings with the team and identify actions to reduce defects.
– Include positive and negative test cases to check functionality.
– Check if peer review is completed at each step of test execution.
– Review, analyze and validate results.
– Follow up with team assigned for rework on code defects and close the same.
align technical component testing with sprint methodologies of testing.
– Attend QA audits as and when required.
– Monitor system builds Signoff on test cases created by team.
– Discuss results / actions from NFR testing and signoff on the same for system testing / NFR.
– Collaborate with Cloud Success Managers on signoff of cloud custom components (as needed).
– Suggest and leverage automated testing tools for performance validation.
Deployment Support and Closure.
– Create strategy for roll back.
– Conduct dry run on pilots.
– Monitor the processes are being followed.
– Document changes in the system.
– Resolve issues that arise during project deployment/ closure.
– Check that all action items mentioned in the deployment checklist have been completed.
– Post final acceptance, conduct all closure schedules.
– Provide support in creation of a final project report.
– Conduct handover to AVM team.
– Monitor all system/security administration activities and ensure all audit requirements are met.
Service Support and Maintenance Release Management.
– Review incident/problem/change management plan created by team.
– Track issue/problem resolution.
– Conduct RCA.
– Define communication and issue resolution matrix.
– Drive and implement best practices for resolution of issues.
– Liaise with business users/SMEs to resolve issues if required.
– Review patch fixes created to prevent recurrence of complex problems – Track adherence to SLAs.
– Guide team members in the course of incident/ problem management.
– Conduct change impact assessment.
Collate change records.
– Share change records with relevant stakeholders.
Knowledge Management.
– Create and update knowledge articles in the knowledge management repository.
– Provide guidance to team members to maintain all documentation related to project.
– Conduct KT sessions.
– Create knowledge articles on the problem, workaround solutions.
Monitor and report the usage of knowledge articles.
Maintain knowledge management database.
Training and Recruitment / People Management.
– Provide assistance in selection of representative employee groups for training.
– Conduct training.
Mentor team members in project teams with respect to product and domain skills on projects.
– Conduct technical, face to face interviews with candidates and support recruitment process.
– Set goals for team members and monitor performance.
– Coordinate with the project/program manager in understanding how the employee can better contribute to the project, seek feedback and address concerns.
– Conduct performance appraisal for team members.
– Organize team initiatives on a periodic basis.
Project Planning and Set up.
– Understand resource plan.
– Plan for knowledge enrichment, change management and quality management.
– Conduct estimation of time utilization of different resources and activities – Identify appropriate processes based on project landscape.
– Identify gaps and advise on improvements if required.
– Share inputs in creation of project plan with Project Manager.
– Review hardware/software requirement plan.
– Validate system build.
Understand the test strategy, evaluate the design and identify gaps in the test plans, if any.
– Define KT plan.
– Customize project management system.
– Define standards and set Cognizant 20.
– Provide all support required during presales activities.
Requirement Gathering and Analysis.
– Understand the requirements from clients/ functional consultants.
– Participate in client calls and seek clarifications.
– Relay information gathered to the team.
– Create a requirements traceability matrix.
– Provide inputs during creation of operational concepts and scenarios.
– Perform requirements feasibility with regards to testing and implementation.
– Identify interface touch points, interfaces, and services requirements.
– Analyze NFRs.
Solution Conceptualization.
– Participate / collaborate with Technology specialists in building solution POCs for identified minor components.
– Document solution design sections assigned Ensure accelerators / reusables are leveraged in the solutions built.
Solution Definition and Design.
– Provide support to specialists during requirement gathering (technical and infrastructure perspective during downstream assessment) to other teams.
– Interact with client to understand their requirements.
– Interact with domain/ product architects and provide requirements to design solution.
– Collaborate with delivery team to develop HLD/ functional design.
– Create infrastructure architecture for project based on the requirements.
– Collaborate with product infrastructure teams to raise timely requests for instances / infra availability.
Project Support.
– Conduct technical reviews and audits for checklists and work packages – Report weekly status and walkthrough to the Project Manager / Client.
– Followup with customer POC to resolve team issues and any other dependencies.
– Work with cloud infra providers to address issues relating to performance, scalability.
– Raise concerns regarding changes in timelines with Client and facilitate resolution.
– Measure and report the actual effort against the estimated effort and ensure task progress reporting in C20.
– Technical lead will also lead conversations with cloud product vendors on roadmap / architecture discussions as needed by clients.
Asset Development and Governance.
– Share ideas with Technical specialist on opportunity areas for asset / reusable / tools development.
– Provide inputs into challenges faced during development.