Application Architect

Application Architect - Contract (6+ months) - Inside IR35. Location: London, UK. Client: Wipro.

• Develop architectural applications for new deals and major change requests in existing deals
  • Creates an enterprise-wide architecture that ensures systems are scalable, reliable, and manageable.
  • Manages application assets and directs development efforts within an enterprise to improve solution delivery and agility.
  • Guides how to construct and assemble application components and services to support solution architecture and application development.
  • Maintains the frameworks and artefacts used in the implementation of an application, with reference to the systematic architecture of the overall application portfolio.
  • Responsible for application architecture paradigms such as service-oriented architecture (SOA) and, more specifically, microservices, ensuring business agility and scalability for a faster time to market.
  • Provide solution of 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, and applications to better match business outcome objectives.
  • Analyse technology environment, enterprise specifics, and client requirements to set a collaboration design framework/architecture.
  • Depending on the client's need with 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, and tradeoffs 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.
  • Provide technical and strategic inputs during the project planning phase in the form of technical architectural designs and recommendations.
  • Account mining to find opportunities in existing clients.
  • Collaborate with all relevant parties to review objectives and constraints of solutions and determine conformance with the Enterprise Architecture.
  • Identify implementation risks and potential impacts.
  • Create new revenue streams within applications as APIs that can be leveraged by clients.
  • Bring knowledge of automation in application by embracing Agile and DevOps principles to reduce manual effort.
• Understand application requirements and design standardized applications
  • Creating Intellectual Property in forms of services, patterns, models and organizational approaches.
  • Designing patterns, best practices and reusable applications that can be used for future references.
  • 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.
  • Provide platform to create standardized tools, uniform design and techniques to reduce maintenance costs.
  • Coordinating input on risks, costs and opportunities for concepts.
  • Developing customized applications for customers aligned with their needs.
  • Perform design and code reviews thoroughly on a regular basis, keeping in mind security measures.
  • Understand design and production procedures and standards to create prototypes and finished products.
  • Work closely with systems analysts, software developers, data managers and other team members to ensure successful production of application software.
  • Offer viable solutions for various systems and architectures to different types of businesses.
  • Seamless integration of new and existing systems to eliminate potential problems and maintain data structure and bring value in terms of development.
  • Transforming all applications into digital form and implement and evolve around mesh app and service architecture that support technologies like IOT, blockchain, machine learning, automation, BOTS, etc.
  • Cloud Transformation (Migration): understand non-functional requirements and produce artefacts such as deployment architecture and interface catalogue; identify dependencies and support build/testing teams.
  • Cloud Transformation (Modernization): define target architecture in the integration space, assess project pipeline/demand and align to target architecture; provide technical support to delivery teams for POCs and technical guidance.
  • Keep up-to-date with the latest technologies in the market.

Note: The original description does not list formal qualifications; responsibilities and expectations are described above.

• Job Type: Contract 6+ months - Inside IR35
• Job Location: London, UK
• Client: Wipro