Location: Bengaluru, India
Job ID: 3104209
Hiring Organization: Wipro
Role Purpose:
The Integration Architect is responsible for creating exceptional integration architectural solutions, offering thought leadership, and enabling delivery teams to provide superior client engagement and satisfaction.
Key Responsibilities:
Architectural Design and Solutioning:
- Define integration architecture for new deals or significant changes in existing deals.
- Develop an enterprise-wide integration architecture ensuring systems are seamlessly integrated while being scalable, reliable, and manageable.
- Provide digital integration solutions for RFPs from clients, ensuring comprehensive design assurance.
- Analyze applications, exchange points, data formats, connectivity requirements, and technology environments to set a robust integration solution design framework.
- Offer technical leadership in the design, development, and implementation of integration solutions using modern technology.
- Define current state integration solutions and identify improvements, options, and tradeoffs for target state solutions.
- Document integration architecture comprehensively, covering logical, deployment, and data views.
- Validate integration solutions or prototypes from technological, cost structure, and customer differentiation perspectives.
- Address problem areas through root cause analysis and provide relevant solutions.
- Collaborate with sales, program/project, and consulting teams to align solutions with architecture.
Delivery Enablement:
- Provide optimal delivery solutions and frameworks to delivery teams.
- Build relationships with technical leaders, product owners, peer architects, and other stakeholders to become a trusted advisor.
- Develop and establish relevant integration metrics (KPI/SLA) to drive results.
- Identify and mitigate risks related to integration.
- Ensure quality assurance of integration architecture and provide technical support to delivery teams.
- Lead the development and maintenance of the integration framework and related artifacts.
Client Engagement:
- Support pre-sales teams by presenting the solution design and principles to clients.
- Coordinate with client teams to meet all requirements and create effective integration solutions.
- Demonstrate thought leadership and strong technical capability in client interactions to build trust and confidence.
Competency Building and Branding:
- Complete necessary training and certifications on integration middleware.
- Develop Proof of Concepts (POCs), case studies, and demos for new growth areas.
- Write white papers, blogs, and other thought leadership content on digital integration.
- Participate in forums and contribute to Wipro’s market recognition through analyst rankings, client testimonials, and partner credits.
- Mentor developers, designers, and junior architects, contributing to their career development.
Team Management:
- Anticipate new talent requirements based on market trends or client needs.
- Support in hiring the right resources for the team.
- Ensure proper onboarding and training for team members.
- Provide inputs to project managers for setting appraisal objectives and conducting performance reviews.
Stakeholder Interaction:
- Internal: Delivery teams, Pre-sales teams, Practice teams, Talent Transformation Team, Talent acquisition team.
- External: Vendors/Partners, Industry forums, Analysts.
Competency Requirements:
- Technical Competencies:
- Digital Integration Knowledge: Mastery in Integration Middleware, Enterprise Service Bus, Service-Oriented Architecture, Microservices, API Management, Integration Platforms as a Service, B2BI Gateways.
- Market Intelligence: Deep understanding of industry trends, ecosystems, and competition in digital integration.
- Systems Thinking: Expert in system design, interrelatedness, interdependencies, and problem-solving in complex environments.
- Leveraging Technology: Mastery over integration middleware.
- Asset Reusability: Expertise in reusing assets to ensure scalability and optimization.
- Technical Knowledge: Expert in architecture design principles, frameworks, and documentation.
- Behavioral Competencies:
- Strategic Perspective
- Technology Acumen
- Innovation
- Managing Complexity
- Client Centricity
- Execution Excellence
- Passion for Results
Performance Parameters:
- Support Sales Team:
- Quality Index >7, timely support of proposals, lead generation, and number of proposals led.
- Delivery Responsibility:
- Solution acceptance and effective implementation of integration solutions.
- Delivery Support:
- Client satisfaction, delivery within cost, quality, and timelines, and development of reusable components.
- Capability Development:
- Training and certification completion, development of thought leadership content, and contributions to ACE certifications.
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