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Profile summary:

The Solutions Architect is to be a hands-on business-oriented leader with overall responsibility for product/platform solutions, architectural deliverables, defining or approving standards,

envisioning technical road-map for the organisation, products, ensure governance of practices,

standards, quality, resource, asset creation and management, intellectual properties management, engineering research, and more. This is the combination of some management with strong technical leadership and vision; leading software development, technical and engineering teams, while building an innovation-oriented organization, with customer centricity.

The ideal candidate will be a senior leader with advance level capabilities understanding and envisioning creation and integration of multiple solutions, application, across technologies,

across domains, across platforms; with prior experience in driving synergies with external and internal clients, leading platform engineering practices, solutions delivery and enhancing digital experiences. Having a track record of collaborating on platforms and reusable code used by multiple internal and external product engineering teams. Proven experience in building cloud native architecture and experience in implementing microservices based distributed environments and containerized deployment.

Proven experience in building multi-tenant,

scalable, highly available and reliable distributed web-based applications/platforms.

Role and Responsibilities

It is critical that the individual has experience of working in technology leadership roles encompassing product development, engineering, systems architecture, and technical operations. The ideal candidate will be effective at influencing stakeholders to achieve results and highly outcome driven. She/he should be comfortable in setting aggressive targets, making difficult decisions, and holding individuals accountable for set goals. The key roles and responsibilities will include:

Technology Strategy, Research, & Market Prospecting:

- Develop the strategic vision and transformation roadmap for the group to conceptualize design and deliver end to end technical solutions while fostering innovation, leveraging new technologies, and showcasing strong customer intimacy mindset.
- Keep abreast of market trends (including research on newer technology stacks, conduct competitor analysis etc.), gather market insights, monitor product feedback, engage with product teams to explore newer possibilities for determining the best tech solutions to address the business aspirations / problems and to increase credibility in the industry.
- Develop roadmaps and execution plans to meet business objectives with existing or emerging technologies by partnering with stakeholders internally and externally; and ensure successful delivery of POCs along with guidance for technical validation efforts.
- Provide detailed technical design for cutting-edge solutions in the latest relevant fields, as applicable.
- Work closely with market facing teams to strategize for converting potential prospects to active prospects or customers, and enable communicating the value proposition through proposals and presentations,



to achieve business objectives; and training internal teams on the product features, compliance and technology.
- Evaluate systems and requirements for prospective clients, and recommend enhancement opportunities, based on respective business/technical needs; and provide

Solutions Architect assistance for prospecting, as needed, including support for activities related to product positioning, technical & scope closure etc.

Solutions Ideation, Design, and Implementation:

- Apply creative thinking/approach to determine technical solutions that further business goals and align with corporate technology strategies, keeping in mind security,

performance, reliability, scalability, usability, flexibility, and cost.

- Assess client requirements (functional and non-functional) and the BRD, the constraints and options, to make technological and managerial decisions to accomplish project goals.

Establish business context and requirements for the recommended solution, while selecting the most optimal option and developing the roadmap for the selected solution.

- Define the solution, as how the applications will look along with its structure,

characteristics, features, phases, while including respective modules and their inter-

operability, security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability of a product etc.

- Integrate software and hardware to best meet the purpose defined by a client and select the technology stack by assessing and comparing various technology (platforms,

programming languages, tools etc.

- Review resource plans, budgets and forecasting. Manage the team (internal or vendor) to achieve target scope, schedule and cost objectives.
- Work closely with the Product team(s) to enable recent capabilities to help our customers deploy our cutting-edge solutions and create highly sophisticated value propositions and solutions to solve for customers' unmet needs.
- Monitor project performance and influence managing client expectations in terms of the engagement deliverables, efforts, timelines and product customizations etc.
- Manage risk identification/mitigation strategies associated with the solution/architecture; and translate / simplify the technical project details / jargons into language that non-technical stakeholders understand and keep them regularly informed about technical plans, product development processes, costs, and budgeting.

Process Excellence Enablement

- Provide leadership guidance to the team to implement solutions and build platforms in areas that help modernize product architecture, move monolithic applications into cloud,

build data integration pipeline, articulate DevOps (and Dev-Sec-Ops) models, create API patterns/ frameworks, etc. on a regular basis

- Drive for engineering excellence including automation,



quality, efficiency, and productivity; and encourage periodic audits on the processes being followed to develop the product and suggest corrections where necessary
- Foster innovation and leverage new technologies. Keep track of the industry development in big data and high-performance distributed data systems. Evaluate new opportunities to improve and expand the way we do business.
- Define success metrics and SLAs, as well as tracking them toward agreed targets.
- Instil best practices for software development, service execution and operational excellence. Ensure such that the tech eco-system is constantly working towards implementing best practices / benchmarked practices in all aspects of work

Solutions Architect

People Capability and Technological Advancements:

- Ensuring that your team will be future-thinking, track the emerging tech trends, quickly evaluate the applicability of these to our business domain, quickly prototype and evangelize the same across the organization
- Recruit employees for the team while ensuring smooth onboarding, coach and develop

Solution Architects so they can transfer deep technical skills to Enterprises who are considering or using our products & services

- Define team goals and drive the performance by ensuring periodic feedback. Engage with employees on a regular basis to support and guide them. Motivate, develop, reward and recognize team members in order to meet targets
- Build subject matter expertise across products and develop teams to represent deep technical expertise in client pursuits and ensure tight alignment with market perspectives.

General Requirements

- Over all 15 plus years of experience in the relevant domain and 7+ years’ experience in managing & developing a high-performing Solution Architect team in a SaaS / PaaS /

Fintech organization.

- A result-oriented professional with working knowledge of BFSI products and experience working with start-ups or high growth organizations and technical founders will be desirable.
- Demonstrated ability to propel discussions with senior technical and management personnel within customers and driving value creation and shaping technical solutions as per the needs.
- Strong Technical background that enables them to interact with and give guidance to the

IT & product teams to enhance our value proposition. Furthermore, thought leadership in terms of looking beyond the technology and considering the value technology creates for our customers

- Possess the desired market and domain knowledge and expertise to manage high volume transactional business, enterprise & solution selling.
- Communication skills should be impeccable, methodical and be able to multi-task and prioritize well in a fast paced, agile work environment. Require strong interpersonal

& communication skills, both written and oral.

- A proven collaborator who can liaise with all levels and departments within an organization and should be comfortable assuming high-profile leadership roles in demanding, highly-visible customer situations.
- Should truly possess the capabilities, character and intellect that exemplify great leadership.

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🏢 Acura Solution
📍 Mumbai