Application Architect

The purpose of the role is to create exceptional and detailed architectural application design and provide thought leadership, enabling delivery teams to provide exceptional client engagement and satisfaction.

Responsibilities:

• Develop architectural applications for new deals and major change requests in existing deals.
• Create an enterprise-wide architecture that ensures systems are scalable, reliable, and manageable.
• Manage application assets and direct development efforts within an enterprise to improve solution delivery and agility.
• Guide how to construct and assemble application components and services to support solution architecture and application development.
• Maintain the frameworks and artefacts used in the implementation of an application, with reference to the systematic architecture of the overall application portfolio.
• Be responsible for application architecture paradigms such as service-oriented architecture (SOA) and microservices, ensuring businesses achieve agility and scalability for a faster time to market.
• Provide solutions for RFPs received from clients and ensure overall design assurance.
• Develop a direction to manage the portfolio of to-be-solutions including systems, shared infrastructure services, and applications to better match business outcome objectives.
• Analyse technology environment, enterprise specifics, and client requirements to set a collaboration design framework/architecture.
• Create complete RFPs based on the client’s needs with particular standards and technology stacks.
• Provide technical leadership to the design, development, and implementation of custom solutions through thoughtful use of modern technology.
• Define and understand current state solutions and identify improvements, options, and trade-offs to define target state solutions.
• Clearly articulate and sell architectural targets, recommendations, and reusable patterns, proposing investment roadmaps accordingly.
• Evaluate and recommend solutions to integrate with the overall technology ecosystem.
• Track industry and application trends and relate these to planning current and future IT needs.
• Provide technical and strategic inputs during the project planning phase in the form of technical architectural designs and recommendations.
• Conduct account mining to find opportunities in existing clients.
• Collaborate with all relevant parties to review the objectives and constraints of solutions and determine conformance with the Enterprise Architecture.
• Identify implementation risks and potential impacts.
• Create new revenue streams within applications as APIs that can be leveraged by clients.
• Bring knowledge of automation in applications by embracing Agile and DevOps principles to reduce manual processes.
• Understand application requirements and design standardised applications.
• Create Intellectual Property in the form of services, patterns, models, and organisational approaches.
• Design patterns, best practices, and reusable applications for future reference.
• Ensure system capabilities are consumed by system components and set criteria for evaluating technical and business value in terms of Tolerate, Invest, Migrate, and Eliminate.
• Provide a platform to create standardised tools, ensuring uniform design and techniques are maintained to reduce maintenance costs.
• Coordinate input on risks, costs, and opportunities for concepts.
• Develop customised applications for customers aligned with their needs.
• Perform thorough design and code reviews regularly, keeping security measures in mind.
• Understand design and production procedures and standards to create prototypes and finished products.
• Work closely with systems analysts, software developers, data managers, and other team members to ensure successful production of application software.
• Offer viable solutions for various systems and architectures to different types of businesses.
• Ensure seamless integration of new and existing systems to eliminate potential problems and maintain data structure, bringing value in terms of development.
• Transform all applications into digital form and implement and evolve around mesh app and service architecture that supports new technologies like IoT, blockchain, machine learning, automation, and BOTS.
• Understand non-functional requirements.
• Produce artefacts such as deployment architecture and interface catalogue.
• Identify internal and external dependencies, vendor, and internal IT management.
• Support build and testing teams.
• Understand and define target architecture in the integration space.
• Assess project pipeline/demand and align to target architecture.
• Provide technical support to the delivery team in terms of POC and technical guidance.
• Keep up-to-date with the latest technologies in the market.