Solutions Architect

LTIMindtree is a global technology consulting and digital solutions company that enables enterprises across industries to reimagine business models, accelerate innovation, and maximize growth by harnessing digital technologies. As a digital transformation partner to more than 700+ clients, LTIMindtree brings extensive domain and technology expertise to help drive superior competitive differentiation, customer experiences, and business outcomes in a converging world.

Our company is powered by nearly 90,000 talented and entrepreneurial professionals across more than 30 countries, combining the industry-acclaimed strengths of erstwhile Larsen and Toubro Infotech and Mindtree in solving the most complex business challenges and delivering transformation at scale.

The purpose of the Solution Architect role is to develop end-to-end solution architecture for the project meeting business requirements. This includes identifying impact to the system for proposed changes and working with various stakeholders to quantify and qualify the impact.

The successful candidate will be responsible for identifying technical debt – application and infrastructure in the landscape, creating a framework to evaluate and prioritize technical debt items, and developing roadmaps in conjunction with the Enterprise Architect and business to remediate technical debt.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop end-to-end solution architecture for the project meeting business requirements.
• Identify impact to the system for proposed changes and work with various stakeholders to quantify and qualify the impact.
• Identify technical debt – application and infrastructure in the landscape.
• Create framework to evaluate and prioritize technical debt items.
• Develop roadmaps in conjunction with the Enterprise Architect and business to remediate technical debt.
• Support cost estimation and execution of the tech debt remediation.
• Deliver solutions that progress the overall architecture journey and are aligned to Client's IT Strategy.
• Comply with standards, design approaches, and governance.

Accountabilities:

• Solutions and Assurance:
  • Create solutions and design for projects to meet client's standards for technology and ensure they meet our ambitions for availability, security, resilience, and performance.
  • Produce design options with associated costs, benefits, and risks to enable investment decisions.
  • Create migration solution to convert policies from legacy system to Guidewire PolicyCenter.
  • Work with product owners, enterprise architects, platform teams, and other project colleagues to agree tradeoffs between long-term and short-term goals.
  • Responsible for the integrity of the end-to-end solution across platforms, including transition states used to achieve the target state.
  • Shape and estimate IT initiatives and feature team sprints, ensuring that component parts deliver against business outcomes.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Record any solution debt incurred during the transition phase of the solution and address the same in future phases.
  • Identify potential risks and challenges associated with proposed solutions.
  • Develop mitigation strategies to address identified risks.
  • Participate in post-implementation reviews and provide feedback to improve future solution designs.
  • Technical Leadership:
    • Keep up with technological developments in the digital, integration area and evaluate how well they fit into the company's architecture.
    • Evaluate and recommend tools, frameworks, and platforms to support the development and deployment of solutions.
    • Support defining the architecture best practices and standards and enforcing them in the project solutions.
    • Conduct architecture reviews to ensure compliance with established guidelines.
    • Ensure design artefacts are produced to support stakeholder groups for service, security, architecture, and engineering.
    • Peer review design artefacts of others.
    • Provide coaching, mentoring, and training to less experienced team members as required.
    • Design Community membership:
      • Contribute to the Solution Architecture community across client groups, leading on or participating in initiatives to improve approach to design.
      • Develop technical skills to support the need to understand and exploit emerging technology trends.
      • Risk & Controls:
        • Identify, own, and manage specific key risks and/or IT controls and BP standards that you are identified as the owner and/or nominee for on iCARE or Archer.
        • Ensure that issues and actions associated with controls/risks are remediated in a timely manner.
        • Maintain appropriate records on iCARE or Archer.
        • Ensure that controls are sufficiently well designed and operating effectively to keep the risks that they mitigate within client's tolerance level.
        • Report and escalate the status of the relevant risks, controls, and standards as appropriate.
        • Resource Complexity:
          • Accountable for working within policy and guidelines, applying technical knowledge and expertise, and prioritizing own use of time.
          • Problem Solving:
            • The essence of the role is project-based problem solving.
            • Accountable for solving problems and dealing with difficulties in line with policy, process, and other guidelines, applying technical knowledge and expertise.
            • Depending on the nature of the specific role, problems can range from repetitive daily issues to complex technical problems requiring significant expertise.
            • Escalate problems according to guidelines.
            • Change:
              • Recommend design solutions or ideas in response to challenges faced by your project or feature team in line with policy, process, and other guidelines.
              • Accountable for recommending change based on expert knowledge and analysis.
              • Take personal initiative in adapting to change.
              • Internal Collaboration:
                • Build effective working relationships with project managers and others on projects.
                • Platform managers and specialists.
                • Platform architects and designers.
                • External Interaction:
                  • Maintain liaison with suppliers and the relevant sources of technology to ensure specialist knowledge is kept up to date.

Capabilities:

• Proven experience in solution architecture, roadmaps, and architecture design and implementation.
• Knowledge of wider application technologies stack and infrastructure knowledge.
• Knowledge of cloud native and modern application architecture.
• Experience in building roadmaps with interim states.
• Strong knowledge of end-to-end project lifecycle methodologies (agile).
• Financial acumen to support development of business cases and to inform key design decisions.
• Ability to balance long-term direction and necessary short-term goals.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to provide technical guidance to peers and project colleagues.
• Strong personal impact and influence.
• Good stakeholder and relationship management.
• Leadership skills.

Benefits and Perks:

• Comprehensive Medical Plan Covering Medical, Dental, Vision.
• Short Term and Long-Term Disability Coverage.
• 401(k) Plan with Company match.
• Life Insurance.
• Vacation Time, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays.
• Paid Paternity and Maternity Leave.

Disclaimer: The compensation and benefits information provided herein is accurate as of the date of this posting.

LTIMindtree is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity in the workplace. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, family-care status, veteran status, marital status, civil union status, domestic partnership status, military service, handicap or disability or history of handicap or disability, genetic information, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, union affiliation, affectional or sexual orientation or preference, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, except where such considerations are bona fide occupational qualifications permitted by law.

Safe return to office:

In order to comply with LTIMindtree's company COVID-19 vaccine mandate, candidates must be able to provide proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 before or by the date of hire. Alternatively, one may submit a request for reasonable accommodation from LTIMindtree's COVID-19 vaccination mandate for approval, in accordance with applicable state and federal law, by the date of hire. Any request is subject to review through LTIMindtree's applicable processes.