• Provide technical leadership to the implementation of custom solutions through thoughtful use of modern technology

Define and understand current issues and problems and identify improvements

Evaluate and recommend solutions to integrate with overall technology ecosystem keeping consistency throughout

Understand the root cause problem in integrating business and product units

• Validate the solution/ prototype from technology, cost structure and customer differentiation point of view
• Collaborating with sales and delivery leadership teams to identify future needs and requirements

Tracks industry and application trends and relates these to planning current and future IT needs

Understanding enterprise requirements and provide solutions for technical ecosystem

Creating Intellectual Property in forms of services, patterns, models and organizational approaches.

Bring knowledge of automation in application by embracing Agile and dev-ops principles to reduce manual part

Responsible for successfully applying the technology in their domain to solve business problems in a supportable, cost effective, way

Analyze the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement. In addition, analyze the technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the enterprise as well as on the enterprise technology architecture

Develop a direction to manage the portfolio of to-be-solutions including systems, shared infrastructure services, applications in order to better match business outcome objectives

Provide platform to create standardize tools, uniform design and techniques are maintained to reduce costs of maintenance

Seamless integration and advising of new and existing systems to eliminate potential problems and maintain data structure and bring value in terms of development

Serve as technical owner and point of contact for domain specific solutions and provide technical leadership to the design, development and implementation of custom solutions through thoughtful use of modern technology

Enable Delivery Teams by providing optimal delivery solutions/ frameworks

Build and maintain relationships with executives, technical leaders, product owners, peer architects and other stakeholders to become a trusted advisor

Collaborate with enterprise architect for translating business strategy to execution

Develops and establishes relevant technical, business process and overall support metrics (KPI/SLA) to drive results

Bring value in terms of quality in development activities by leveraging cloud based and scalable infrastructure

Identify technical, process, structural risks and prepare a risk mitigation plan for all the projects

Ensure quality assurance of all the architecture or design decisions and provides technical mitigation support to the delivery teams

Recommend tools for reuse, automation for improved productivity and reduced cycle times

Leads the development and maintenance of enterprise framework and related artefacts

Develops trust and builds effective working relationships through respectful, collaborative engagement across individual product teams

Provide architectural oversight of projects; ensure requirements are in alignment with business strategies and business architecture roadmap/framework.

Ensure solutions developed across organization are aligned to enterprise architecture standards and principles, leverage common solutions and services, and meet financial targets (cost and benefits).

Negotiate, manage and coordinate with the client teams to ensure all requirements are met and create an impact of solution proposed

Demonstrate thought leadership with strong technical capability in front of the client to win the confidence and act as a trusted advisor

Competency Building and Branding

Ensure completion of necessary trainings and certifications

Develop Proof of Concepts (POCs), case studies, demos etc. for new growth areas based on market and customer research

Develop and present a point of view of Wipro on application design and architect by writing white papers, blogs etc.

Attain market referencability and recognition through highest analyst rankings, client testimonials and partner credits

Be the voice of Wipro's Thought Leadership by speaking in forums (internal and external)

Mentor developers, designers and Junior architects in the project for their further career development and enhancement

Contribute to the architecture practice by conducting selection interviews etc

Team Management

Resourcing

Anticipating new talent requirements as per the market/ industry trends or client requirements

Hire adequate and right resources for the team

Talent Management

Ensure adequate onboarding and training for the team members to enhance capability & effectiveness

Build an internal talent pool and ensure their career progression within the organization

• Manage team attrition

Drive diversity in leadership positions

Performance Management

Set goals for the team, conduct timely performance reviews and provide constructive feedback to own direct reports

Ensure that the Performance Nxt is followed for the entire team

Employee Satisfaction and Engagement

Lead and drive engagement initiatives for the team

Track team satisfaction scores and identify initiatives to build engagement within the team

Stakeholder Interaction

Stakeholder Type Stakeholder Identification Purpose of Interaction Internal Delivery teams Review of architectural process deployment in engagements, escalation management, issue resolution, delivery assurance and excellence Pre-sales team For solutioning and architectural design purpose Quality Assurance Periodic review of architecture Practice teams To understand the different solution portfolios Holmes engineering and roll out For automation purpose Talent Transformation Team, Competency Group Plan and support delivery of Technical Trainings, knowledge sharing HRBP For hiring and managing resources External Vendors/ Partners For strategic alignment and partnerships, training Industry forums Best practices, market intelligence, knowledge sharing, customer architectural council

JD
Area Job Description Skill MPLS SW Development Expertise in working with Datacom devices in Embedded Linux. Telecom Switching Routing NE Layer2 SW

C, C++ Programming Proficient in C programming. Experience in development of following protocols: MPLS, VPLS, LDP, L3VPN, RSVP, BGP, MPLS-OAM. Good knowledge in standalone, chassis based architecture, management protocols SNMP Debugging issues in complex network topologies Deep knowledge in TCP/IP,socket programming, multithreaded applications, IPC Preferably working experience in Broadcom/Marvell ASICs Development experience Forwarding/Data plane concepts/ACL configuration Debugging using GDB / Wireshark/ Log-analysis Willing to dynamically adapt to the new project environment and maintain good client / team interactions. Experience: 5 to 15+ years

Display

Lists the competencies required to perform this role effectively:

• Functional Competencies/ Skill
  • Domain/Industry Knowledge - Awareness and knowledge of broad economic, demographic, technological and global trends within own ecosystem - Master
  • Market Intelligence - Deep specialized understanding of the ecosystem practice, overall market & competition and nuances of delivery in that domain - Master
  • Systems Thinking - Understanding of the Wipro system (interrelatedness, interdependencies and boundaries) and perform problem solving in a complex environment - Expert
  • Leveraging Technology - In-depth knowledge of and mastery over ecosystem technology that commands expert authority respect - Master
  • Asset reusability - ability to re-use the assets to ensure scalability and optimization - Expert
  • Technical knowledge - architecture design principles, framework and documentation - Master

Competency Levels Foundation Knowledgeable about the competency requirements. Demonstrates (in parts) frequently with minimal support and guidance. Competent Consistently demonstrates the full range of the competency without guidance. Extends the competency to difficult and unknown situations as well. Expert Applies the competency in all situations and is serves as a guide to others as well. Master Coaches others and builds organizational capability in the competency area. Serves as a key resource for that competency and is recognised within the entire organization.

• Behavioral Competencies
  • Strategic perspective
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Technology Acumen
  • Innovation
  • Managing Complexity
  • Client centricity
  • Execution excellence
  • Self-Learning
  • Domain Experience
  • Change agility
  • Passion for results
  • Nurturing people
  • Executive presence

Deliver

No. Performance Parameter Measure 1. Support sales team to create wins % of proposals with Quality Index >7, timely support of the proposals, identifying opportunities/ leads to sell services within/ outside account (lead generation), no. of proposals led 2. Delivery support CSAT, delivery as per cost, quality and timelines, Identify and develop resuable components, utilization %, Recommend tools for reuse, automation for improved productivity and reduced cycle times, # of reusable components 3. Capability development % trainings and certifications completed, increase in ACE certifications, thought leadership content developed (white papers, Wipro PoVs) 4. Practice Building Identifying opportunities for architects in the account and outside through known contacts, Contribute towards domain and technology accelerator kits, Mentoring junior architects 5. Team Management Team attrition %, Employee satisfaction score

Telecom Switching Routing NE Layer2 SW