Solution Architect - Hyderabad

Solution Architect – Digital Solutions 

Location: Hyderabad 

Context The Digital team in our Company has the charter to build competitive edge to the business by proactively building high quality innovative IT and Business Process Improvement solutions/Services for all geographies of business – the future growth engine of the company. To enable this vision, the Digital team focuses on: 

1. Building thought leadership and expertise in emerging technologies and creatively applies it to different needs of the business. 

2. Implementation of projects within time and budget addressing critical business needs leveraging appropriate technology. 

3. Driving and Ensuring benefit realization of various implemented projects (TCO/ROI). 

4. This leader must be capable of working in a matrixed organization and coordinating the delivery of multiple outcomes concurrently. 

5. As a people leader first, and delivery manager second, this leader must build, inspire and lead the technical teams and outsource partners. 

6. Additionally, leader must be capable of independently driving against stated goals and objectives in a different time zone. 

7. Build a best-in-class cross functional solutions for the business 

8. Manage matrixed teams to deliver against team goals and objectives; define an operating model that works for multiple Network teams 

9. Monitors and maintains applications health and security to enable the business achieve operational success We are looking for bright individuals who have passion for creating innovative technical solutions leveraging appropriate and emerging technologies. 

Minimum 12 years’ experience in Software development and maintenance technical Leadership position, overall 15+ years of work experience. 

Ideally candidates should have: Solution Architect 

Job Responsibilities: 

1. Responsible for assisting in the establishment of an IT Architecture practice, and the adoption of an architecture and standards methodology. 

2. Manages activities that take place during solution ideation, solution design, and solution implementation. 

3. Reviews business context for solutions to company challenges as well as defining the vision and requirements for the solution, recommending potential options, (which may include RFIs, RFPs or prototype development), selecting the most optimal option, and the development of a roadmap for the selected solution. 

4. Communicates the architecture to the stakeholders and collaborates and coordinates with existing domain architects in the formalization and adoption of IT standards and procedures. 

5. Champions a structured approach to business application solutions. 

6. Directly assists in the development of a solutions architecture program including departmental roadmaps and project portfolios for IT systems architecture. 

7. Assures solutions not only are a fit for the specific purpose but also closely align with the standards guidelines of technology solutions. 

8. Influences changes to standards when necessary. 

9. Supports the architectural aspects of all application projects in peer IT portfolios. 

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

11. Develops and executes solutions which further reduce the percentage of time spent on reactive work. 

12. Provides analysis of security protection technologies as necessary. 

Solution Architect Qualifications / Skills: 

1. Excellent oral and written communication 

2. Analytical and problem-solving skills 

3. High attention to detail regarding accounting skills 

4. Ability to work under indirect supervision 

5. Broad understanding of information technology topics 

6. Effective interpersonal skills and collaborative management style to include teamwork and team building ability 

7. Comfortable with ambiguity and time spent outside of comfort zone acquiring new skills 

8. Flexible in a fast-paced dynamic environment with shifting roles and responsibilities 

9. Technically creative and open-minded

Education & Experience Requirements: 

1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience 

2. Minimum of 10 – 12 years of experience related to IT Management or other information technology solutions architecture role 

3. Demonstrated ability to communicate the complexities of technical programs 4. Proficiency with information technologies in a secure network environment 

5. Expertise with personal computers in a secure network environment and Microsoft applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint and SharePoint) or similar software 

Technical Competency: 

1) Person should carry software development and solution architecting experience in .Net, Java, PHP and other web technologies (, etc) 

2) Hands on knowledge of Oracle, SQL, Postgress and other databases 

3) Hands on knowledge of Microsoft and Linux operating technologies 

4) Experience with cloud technologies specially knowledge of Cloud VPC. Landing Zone, SaaS app monitoring, Direct / Express route integration (including IaaS, PaaS for private and public clouds). 

5) Partner governance capability specially SLA review, SLA enabled SOW creation, Governance.etc. 

6) Experience in handling the Basic Vulnerability Assessments and General Security issues like probable data leakage etc. related to end points. (Assessment and closure understanding) 

7) Experience and knowledge of Security best practices for Banking and Financial Services Industry. 

8) Person should carry technical knowledge of Servers, OS, VMware, Databases (SQL/Oracle), Backup, Storage etc. 

9) Good knowledge of infra design and platform selections. 

10) Experience and knowledge of Cloud technologies (AWS, GCP & Azure) 

11) Knowledge of VDI, Citrix, VMware Horizon, 

12) Troubleshooting and problem-solving capability (Hands-on) 

Soft Skills: 

1. Engages with business partners on projects to assess business impact and help deliver secure solutions via various technologies and platforms 

2. Presents possible updates, recommendations, strategic opportunities to team. 

3. Excellent decision-making, problem-solving, team, and time management skills 

4. Should be a team player, excellent communication and influencing skills including the ability to simplify key messages, present compelling stories and promote technical and personal credibility with internal and external executives, and both technical and non-technical audiences 

5. Proven success working across organizational and geographic boundaries 

6. Carrying good negotiation skill and good in identifying cost optimization opportunities. 

Operating Network Internal: 

Infrastructure, InfoSec, Developers, QA teams, Support services teams, External: All Regional/Functional heads, Co-sourcing Partners, Software and hardware vendors in India and Neighboring Markets, Vendor project management teams, Auditors 

Key Personal Attributes - Result oriented and with a work ethic of delivering on-time and in scope - Strong interpersonal, consultative and management skills - Good communication and interpersonal skills to manage multiple stakeholders within and without organization - Business focused, customer & service minded and confident in advising, developing and articulating solutions Compensation: 

Best in the Industry

Interested candidates rush your updated resume to sowmya@ravinatechnologies.com