Sr. Manager - Projects at Cognizant in Naperville, Illinois

Job Description:

Cognizant Technology Solutions is seeking for Principal Architect; this resource should have strong experience Who could join in our team of IT professionals in a permanent role If you meet our background requirements and skills and looking for an opportunity to be rewarded for your skills and expertise, here is the ideal opportunity for you.

Location: Naperville, IL / Remote

Job description

• Incubate new product assets/tools/concepts to improve revenue


• Identify newer opportunities for contribution/newer ways of leveraging technology


• Interact and engage with product management team around new innovative ideas  concepts  assets; as well as industry trends and implications


• Identify areas where components/accelerators or design patterns could be reused across different products.   


• Create documents  reports  white papers on the research findings.

Technology Consulting:

• Define  Problem statement


• Analyze application/ technology landscape  process  tools and arrive at the solution options  best fit for the purpose


• Analyze Cost Vs Benefits of solution options and articulate the same 


• Define the technology/ architecture roadmap for the product in consultation with Prinicipal Architect  

New Solution Development:

• Supporting the definition  validation and documentation of technical solution designs with multi technology and cross product systems with a general understanding of how the solution serves the desired business outcomes and operations.


• Identify the appropriate quality model/standard/measure to be adopted in the product to deliver on the function/non functional requirements


• Breaking down business problems of moderate scope to support implementation of sustainable solutions that have valuable and memorable impact on the product


• Actively driving various development activities such as requirement gathering  service design and implementation.


• Drive out cross linkages across multiple modules/product to arrive at a coherent solution and feature set that can be delivered quarterly

Knowledge Management & Capability Development:

• Provide inputs to teams for training etc. 


• Identify the training needs and conduct internal sessions to meet the same 


• Partner with academy to Create curriculum  assessments  training programs  courseware based on the existing gaps and the technical roadmap.


• Update collateral on to the knowledge management repository


• Gain and cultivate domain expertise to provide best and optimized solution to customer

 

Project Control and Review:

• Perform architecture design review  


• Identify opportunities for optimization of cost / time / asset utilization in complex projects and advise relevant teams accordingly where possible    


• Provide advice to teams facing complex technical issues as needed  


• Conduct planned and unplanned technical audits for complex features as applicable  


• Define and measure project /program specific architectural and technology quality metrics     


• Review outputs to ensure NFRs are met


• Develop and maintain standards and guidelines for responsible area of architecture.

People Management:

• Provide support to various managers in identification of training needs of their sub ordinates  


• Conduct training / certifications with the help of academy and mentoring with respect to technical skills on projects  


• Support technical evaluation of external and internal candidates to meet project requirements  


• Perform career guidance and performance management for team members

Asset Development and Governance:

• Provide thought leadership in conceptualizing the need and design of assets 


• Track implementation of assets  


• Improve asset effectiveness  


• Improve deployment effectiveness

Sales Support and Project Estimation:

• Develop collaterals for proposals from a technical perspective


• Conduct workshops to assist the sales team  in sales support  if required    


• Compare various designs and propose appropriate technology solutions  based on the understanding of the charter/potential lead and inputs from Architects  


• Calculate and present estimates based on high level designs to management for supporting in go/ no go decisions     


• Review estimations and resource plan  


• Review risk and mitigation plan   

New Service Design:

• Identify potential opportunities for new features based on customer voice/ partner inputs / industry connects and trends


• Support the development of business case for investments for approval from senior management         


• Work with partners to co develop a joint GTM (as applicable)


• Develop IP/tools and framework to address the opportunity technically      


• Develop collaterals  guides for GTM as suggested/directed by Principal Architect          

Requirement gathering and Analysis:

• Understand the requirements from a larger system / transformation program context       


• Validate the cross application / cross technology requirements to ensure integration ability and reconciliation of conflicting  requirements  by working with product teams and other stakeholders

Solution Definition & Design:

• Ensure alignment of the high level architecture with the existing product architecture in terms of usage of tools  design  scalability  security etc...  


• Ensure  technical integration ability  requirements compliance of the solution    


• Provide guidance to solution architect around usage of patterns/anti patterns in the solution 


• Analyze trade offs and provide recommendations  if any  on the solution architecture.  


• Identify opportunities for efficiency improvements (e.g.  automation)  risk reduction


• Guide product management team on process and technology improvements to achieve agility and quick results.

Stakeholder Management:

Build credibility with the business team as a technical go to person and also as the SME

Project Management Support:

Proactive identification & management of technical risks  

Process Improvements / Delivery Excellence:

Identify automation opportunities and drive the implementation to simplify processes  constantly monitor quality dashboards and help team meet the organization/project quality benchmarks  assist with setting up CI Processes and in defining standards and guidelines."""

Technical Skills

SNo	Primary Skill	Proficiency Level *	Rqrd./Dsrd.
1	Python	PL1	Required
2	Design Review	PL1	Required
3	.Net Programming-C# .Net	PL4	Required

 

* Proficiency Legends

Proficiency Level	Generic Reference
PL1	The associate has basic awareness and comprehension of the skill and is in the process of acquiring this skill through various channels.
PL2	The associate possesses working knowledge of the skill, and can actively and independently apply this skill in engagements and projects.
PL3	The associate has comprehensive, in-depth and specialized knowledge of the skill. She / he has extensively demonstrated successful application of the skill in engagements or projects.
PL4	The associate can function as a subject matter expert for this skill. The associate is capable of analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing solutions using the skill.

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