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About Cognizant's Digital Engineering Practice:
At Cognizant Digital Engineering, a small cross functional team comprised of a Product Manager, an Architect, Full-Stack Developers, UI/UX designers and Big Data analysts builds higher quality software faster siloed individuals working independently. Small, nimble engineering teams generate collective empathy and comradery, thus increasing their ability to anticipate unforeseen development scope changes and maintain high quality deliverables. Across our US Studio system or within client development sites, our Digital Engineering teams ideate and develop innovative cloud-based solutions following a Lean-Agile process with DevOps culture. Working in Cognizant Digital Engineering provides DevOps engineers consistent opportunities to push digital boundaries while growing their exposure to transformational technologies.
The Role:
Cognizant is looking for an experienced and innovative Global Technology Architect/Sales Leader to serve our diverse base of global clients. As a member of our team, you will build cutting edge, cloud-based software that powers modern business. An ideal candidate is someone who enjoys working in a diverse, collaborative, geographically distributed team. Similarly, the ideal candidate is an expert engineer who values the "team", drives continuous improvement and is unafraid to challenge the legacy status quo with creative cloud-based solutions.
Large Deals ESA is a professional responsible for solutioning large deal reactive and proactive client proposals mainly revolving around themes like Managed Services construct, vendor consolidation, offshore capability center setup through BOT(Build-Operate-Transfer), cost optimization, operating model transformation ..etc.
Selected ESA should be able to independently lead such large deals by working across all internal groups and technical competencies to creating compelling and competitive solution proposals.
ESA should also have robust background of technology landscape, architecture patterns, frameworks, tools, processes etc. to execute multi service line standard deals (5-50M)
Location: This is a remote (US based) role that will require occasional (up to 20%) travel.
Key Responsibilities
- Define, design, & build a strong, winning technology solution that address the pain-points by translating a strong understanding of the customer business context
- Independently lead both Large (>50M) and Standard technical (5M-50M) deals
- Coordination with all stakeholders (sales, solutions, operations, change management, pricing, transition, facilities et al) to ensure timely and high-quality proposal & response submission
- Lead and contribute to the design, development, and implementation of winning technical estimation / solutions for customers to introduce and establish new technology solutions into their business and business processes
- Technology domain expertise and understanding of the various functions and regulations governing industry in complex engagements
- Deep understanding of industry trends, concepts, opportunities, threats & constraints
- Creation and maintenance of an effective knowledge management system to support all the phases of the opportunity lifecycle
- Design a technology solution that aligns with the larger engagement model across towers and jointly build engagement level transformation themes
- Collaborate with stakeholders, including business analysts and project managers, to understand the functional and non-functional requirements of a project or initiative.
- Design end-to-end solutions that meet specific business needs, considering factors such as scalability, performance, security, and integration capabilities.
- Analyze the existing technology landscape and identify appropriate software, hardware, and infrastructure components required for the solution.
- Provide technical guidance and support to development teams throughout the development lifecycle.
- Ensure that the solution aligns with the organization's technology standards, guidelines, and best practices.
- Evaluate and select third-party software and services that may be integrated into the solution.
- Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends to recommend innovative solutions.
- Resolve design or implementation challenges during the development process.
- Collaborate with other architects, such as Domain Architects, to ensure alignment and consistency across the organization's technology landscape.
- End to end ownership of entire solution and support to all the stakeholders through entire life cycle.
- Candidate should also possess the following soft skills necessary to orchestrate large deals.
- Ability to independently lead group of large stakeholders spread across service lines / competencies and corporate functions during proposal solution process
- Resolve solution bottlenecks and drive consensus across groups
- Ability to actively lead the discussions to achieve timely and incremental progress through solution process.
- Actively engage in commercial discussions with pricing teams to achieve competitive pricing through implementation of all costing and productivity levers
- Remove any impediments affecting solution process
- Closely work with markets / accounts team to align overall response with client expectations
Required Capabilities/Skills /Years of Experience:
- 15+ years of experience in creating robust Enterprise Technology Architecture or End to End solutioning and estimation, preferably at large or midscale professional services company.
- Excellent understanding of onsite / offshore execution model, solution tents, delivery / engagement constructs, operating models ..etc.
- Ability to independently lead, solution and orchestrate Large Deals with diverse themes such as IT/ITO optimization, vendor consolidation, BOT, cost take out ..etc.
- Experience in evaluating options for tool / technology product selection, compare on various evaluation parameters and help arrive at the final selection.
- Experience in providing technical solutions covering application modernization & transformation using microservices architecture, technical upgrades & migrations, cloud assessment, application rewrite using latest technologies, considering cloud/on-premises hosting
- Experience in Cognizant internal tools, accelerators & application risk profiling frameworks
- Analytical thinking - able to simplify complex problems, processes & projects into