Application Architect
Job Type: Contract 6+ Months - Inside IR35
Job Location: London, UK
Client: Wipro

Job Description
Role Purpose
The purpose of the role is to create exceptional and detailed architectural application design and provide thought leadership to enable delivery teams to offer exceptional client engagement and satisfaction.

Do
1. Develop architectural application for the new deals / major change requests in existing deals
a. Creates an enterprise-wide architecture that ensures systems are scalable, reliable, and manageable.
b. Manages application assets and directs the development efforts within an enterprise to improve solution delivery and agility.
c. Guides how to construct and assemble application components and services to support solution architecture and application development.
d. Maintains the frameworks and artefacts used in the implementation of an application, with reference to the systematic architecture of the overall application portfolio.
e. Responsible for application architecture paradigms such as service-oriented architecture (SOA) and, more specifically, microservices, ensuring the business achieves agility and scalability for a faster time to market.
f. Provide solutions for RFPs received from clients and ensure overall design assurance.
- Develop a direction to manage the portfolio of to-be-solutions including systems, shared infrastructure services, applications in order to better match business outcome objectives.
- Analyze technology environment, enterprise specifics, client requirements to set a collaboration design framework/architecture.
- Depending on the client’s needs and particular standards and technology stacks, create complete RFPs.
- Provide technical leadership to the design, development, and implementation of custom solutions through thoughtful use of modern technology.
- Define and understand current state solutions and identify improvements, options & trade-offs to define target state solutions.
- Clearly articulate and sell architectural targets, recommendations, and reusable patterns and accordingly propose investment roadmaps.
- Evaluate and recommend solutions to integrate with the overall technology ecosystem.
- Track industry and application trends and relate these to planning current and future IT needs.
g. Provide technical and strategic inputs during the project planning phase in the form of technical architectural designs and recommendations.
h. Account mining to find opportunities in existing clients.
i. Collaborate with all relevant parties to review the objectives and constraints of solutions and determine conformance with the Enterprise Architecture.
j. Identify implementation risks and potential impacts.
k. Create new revenue streams within applications as APIs that can be leveraged by clients.
l. Bring knowledge of automation in applications by embracing Agile and DevOps principles to reduce manual tasks.

2. Understanding application requirements and designing standardized applications
a. Create Intellectual Property in the form of services, patterns, models, and organizational approaches.
b. Design patterns, best practices, and reusable applications that can be used for future reference.
c. Ensure system capabilities are consumed by system components and set criteria for evaluating technical and business value in terms of Tolerate, Invest, Migrate, and Eliminate.
d. Provide a platform to create standardized tools, ensuring uniform design and techniques are maintained to reduce maintenance costs.
e. Coordinate input on risks, costs, and opportunities for concepts.
f. Develop customized applications for customers aligned with their needs.
g. Perform design and code reviews thoroughly on a regular basis, keeping in mind security measures.
h. Understand design and production procedures and standards to create prototypes and finished products.
i. Work closely with systems analysts, software developers, data managers, and other team members to ensure successful production of application software.
j. Offer viable solutions for various systems and architectures to different types of businesses.
k. Ensure seamless integration of new and existing systems to eliminate potential problems and maintain data structure while bringing value in terms of development.
l. Transform all applications into digital form and implement and evolve around mesh app and service architecture that supports new technologies like IoT, blockchain, machine learning, automation, BOTS, etc.

m. Cloud Transformation: (Migration)
- Understand non-functional requirements.
- Produce artefacts such as deployment architecture and interface catalogues.
- Identify internal and external dependencies, vendors, and internal IT management.
- Support build and testing teams.

n. Cloud Transformation: (Modernization)
- Understand and define target architecture in the integration space.
- Assess project pipeline/demand and align to target architecture.
- Provide technical support to the delivery team in terms of POC and technical guidance.

o. Keep up-to-date with the latest technologies in the market.