Solutions Architect

Company: Tech Mahindra
Location: Hartford
Posted on: January 15, 2022

Job Description:

We are part of the USD 21 billion Mahindra Group that employs more than 200,000 people in over 100 countries. The Group operates in the key industries that drive economic growth, enjoying a leadership position in tractors, utility vehicles, after-market, and information technology and vacation ownership. Tech Mahindra is the highest ranked Non-U.S. company in the Forbes Global Digital 100 list (2018) and in the Forbes Fab 50 companies in Asia (2018). We are currently looking for a Solutions Architect for the below Job description to join our team with one of our clients. Key Responsibilities Interfaces with Business Relationship Managers, providing technical and functional expertise to provide vision, oversight, and coordination across portfolio of technical solutions being developed in that domain. Develops, maintains, and communicates processes and standard practices related to the high-level design, development, and implementation of solutions across portfolio of projects and enhancements in the domain. Ensures solutions meet business needs along with architecturally significant functional and nonfunctional requirements. Works with the business to define technology roadmaps. Helps to ensure outside partners are educated on approved technical solutions and works with those partners to ensure requirements are met. Key Activities

• Translates business domain understanding and context to technical capabilities for technical architects and development teams.
• Accountable for collaborating with business relationship managers and business stakeholders to understand business requirements, identifying solution gaps and available capabilities, and defining solutions to meet the business need.
• Research the market and approve Make Vs Buy options to meet business requirements
• Document high level design of solutions
• Support the determination of effort and skills required to implement solutions
• Ensure work scope is maintained and solutions are implemented, managing approved Changes
• Conducts application scan and risk review to validate privacy, security, and risk policies are met
• Responsible for examining the current systems architecture and working with business and technical staff to recommend solutions that result in more effective systems
• Give direction on how to leverage technology to solve a business problem
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to shape EA guardrails, standards and patterns
• Ensure alignment with Enterprise Architecture principles, guardrails, standards, patterns, and frameworks.
• Contribute to portfolio improvements, information security assessments and roadmap
• Guides outside partners to ensure requirements are met Functional Skills:
  • Strong business acumen
  • HR systems experience is critical
  • Workday experience is a plus
  • Salesforce experience is a plus
  • Familiarity with SDLC methodologies (Waterfall and Agile / Scrum / Iterative Development)
  • ITFS Project Methodology knowledge
  • Ability to tie together solutions across systems
  • Application domain knowledge
  • Understanding of current and future technologies
  • Oral and written communications
  • Business case development
  • Estimation of project scope/duration
  • Ability to simplify and standardize complex concepts / processes Technical Skills:
    • Integration Technologies
    • Middleware integration technologies
    • HCM/Benefits/Payroll software solutions experience
    • Infrastructure technologies, including cloud computing / SaaS / IaaS / PaaS technologies
    • Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
    • Web/Mobile Technologies
    • Expertise in application technologies/platforms/capabilities with a broader understanding of the overall environment Behavioral Skills:
      • Ability to influence
      • Ability to execute
      • Ability to prioritize and make trade-off decisions
      • Adaptability / ability to manage change
      • Interpersonal skills
      • Problem solving / analytical thinking
      • Creative thinking
      • Conceptual thinking
      • Teamwork and collaboration
      • Strong growth mindset Education/Experience
        • Undergraduate degree and 10 years relevant experience, or
        • Graduate degree and 6-8 years' relevant experience
        • Preferred experience required in Project and SDLC methodologies Physical Requirement/Work Location (On Site Critical, Partial Virtual, Fully Remote)
          • 100% remote with occasional travel to a business site after Covid Restrictions have been fully lifted.
          • 100% Availability during 8 am 5 pm EST is Mandatory except during personal time off. Tech Mahindra is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We promote and support a diverse workforce at all levels of the company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin or disability. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence, and performance of the essential functions of their positions. Tech Mahindra provides accommodations for employees with disabilities. If you require a specific accommodation because of a disability (whether temporary or permanent in nature), please contact recruitment point of contact so that arrangements can be made for reasonable accommodations to be in place during the application, interview, and assessment process.Tech Mahindra represents the connected world, offering innovative and customer-centric information technology experiences, enabling Enterprises, Associates and the Society to Rise . We are a USD 4.9 billion company with 121,840 professionals across 90 countries, helping over 935 global customers including Fortune 500 companies. Our convergent, digital, design experiences, innovation platforms and reusable assets connect across a number of technologies to deliver tangible business value and experiences to our stakeholders. Tech Mahindra is the highest ranked Non-U.S. company in the Forbes Global Digital 100 list (2018) and in the Forbes Fab 50 companies in Asia (2018).Job Requirements:Architecture

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