Software Architect, Systems Engineer, IT Consultant

Job Summary

Leverage expertise in a technology area (e.g. Java, Microsoft technologies or Mainframe/legacy) to design system architecture.

• Deliver technically sound projects across one/multiple customers within the guidelines of the customer and UST standards and norms, based on user stories
• Guide and review technical delivery by internal teams at the program level
• Resolve architecture issues, deliver and own architecture of application solutions spanning across multiple technologies for high revenue, complex and large strategic maintenance projects
• Architect frameworks and tools relevant for the program

• Publish and maintain a repository of solutions, best practices and standards and other knowledge articles
• Conduct and facilitate knowledge sharing and learning sessions across the team
• Gain industry standard certifications on technology in area of expertise
• Support technical skill building (including hiring and training) for the team based on inputs from Project Manager /RTE’s
• Mentor new members in the team in technical areas
• Gain and cultivate domain expertise to provide best and optimized solution to customer (Delivery)
• Create architecture on‑boarding/KT documents for the program

• Work with customer/business owners and other teams to collect, analyse and understand the requirements including NFRs; define NFRs
• Analyse gaps / trade‑offs based on current system context and industry practice while clarifying the requirements and by working with the customer
• Define the systems and sub‑systems that define the programs

• Set goals and manage performance of technical specialists / team engineers
• Provide career guidance and mentor technical specialists

• Identify alliance partners based on the understanding of service offerings and client requirements, specific to program
• In collaboration with Architect 2,3, create a compelling business case around the offerings
• Conduct beta testing of the offerings and relevance to program

• In collaboration with the Solution Architects, analyse application and technology landscape, process, and tools to arrive at the architecture options best fit for the client, program
• Analyse Cost vs. benefits of solution options
• Support Solution Architects to create a technology/ architecture roadmap for the client
• Define architectural strategy for the program

• Participate in internal and external forums (seminars, paper presentation etc.) to showcase UST capabilities and insights under guidance of senior team members
• Understand clients existing business at the program level and explore new avenues to save cost and bring process efficiency
• Identify business opportunities to create reusable components/accelerators and reuse existing components and best practices
• Support the patent filing process for the IP assets created (applicable to some CoEs)

• Support for developing RFPs and collaterals for proposals from a technical architecture, estimation and risks perspective
• Conduct demos, and arrange for the demos based on client profiles, if required
• Anchor proposal development with cross‑linkages across multiple competency units to arrive at a coherent solution proposal with focus on presenting unique value propositions and clear differentiators

• Develop and Enhance the architecture (application / technical / Infrastructure as applicable) meeting functional and non‑functional requirements; aligned to industry best practices
• Program Design (including data modelling, application design, infrastructure design, team structure) and capacity sizing, working with Program Release Train Engineer to meet the requirements and SLAs of target state and in‑transition as applicable
• Identify Proof of Concept testing (POC) needs and conduct POCs as applicable
• Identify need for developing accelerators or frameworks and develop as applicable specific to the engagement
• Identify key technical metrics to measure the SLA / requirements compliance
• Define, adopt and…