Enterprise Architecture Consultant

Enterprise Consulting Architect (AI) – BFSI (Infosys | Strategic Technology Group)

About the Company

Infosys (https://www.infosys.com/)

Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in more than 50 countries to navigate their digital transformation. With over four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer our clients through their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight. Our always-on learning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.

Strategic Technology Group

Strategic Technology Group is a core team within Infosys supported by Power Programmers who are tech polyglots. Our team of Power Programmers works on complex projects and builds solutions to solve some of the world's most challenging business problems.

About the Role

Enterprise Strategic Architecture practice will work on defining and delivering next-generation digital transformation initiatives for leading global organizations worldwide. You will be part of a highly elite global team of passionate technology leaders and Chief Architects who are ahead of the curve in identifying technology trends and disruptors, and applying them to innovate and solve wicked problems.

This is a strategic role, focusing on our strategic clients who are embarking on digital initiatives. You will work closely with the sales and delivery teams to drive solutions for large and complex programs. You will be involved during the presales stage, offering advice on best-fit technologies, products, and platforms, developing future-state enterprise and technical architectures, and providing technology leadership and governance for the delivery of these programs. Only the bold can succeed.

Identify technology big bets, develop solution propositions around them, prototype and proactively take them to market. You will be seen and heard, so your ability to communicate is paramount. You must be ready to network and collaborate with CDOs, as well as digital and business leaders of client organizations, develop viewpoints on industry and digital technology trends influencing enterprises, publish viewpoints for industry consumption, and speak in reputed industry and partner forums.

Professional Skills & Experience

• More than 15 years of IT experience, with at least 5 years of experience in the areas of digital transformation and architecture.
• Should have personally led and delivered one or more digital transformation programs (size > $10M) successfully with tangible business outcomes.
• As a Chief Architect, should have driven a digital transformation program that has the following characteristics (the list below is indicative):
• Leveraging public/private cloud (hybrid) infrastructure ecosystems and hyperscalers (IaaS/PaaS).
• Leveraging a distributed architecture built with a focus on resiliency (multi-AZ, multi-region, multi-cloud) and an automation-first principle (IaC, DevSecOps).
• Integrating partner ecosystems/tools as part of the overall solution (e.g., CDN, caching, search, content management, and other enterprise capabilities).
• Leveraging multiple modern enterprise integration patterns (e.g., Streaming, APIs, Events) for real-time and near real-time information exchange.
• Container-based cloud-native deployments with Kubernetes (K8S)-based orchestration and leading service mesh technologies.
• Leveraging accelerators for faster delivery through a factory construct to standardize delivery quality and improve time-to-market.
• Leading, guiding, and aligning architects from multiple domains (Cloud, Cyber, LOB) both internally and within customer organizations.
• Understanding operations-friendly implementations leveraging zero-touch ITOps/AIOps constructs and SRE.
• Should have played the role of a Chief Architect or Digital Architecture Lead in the past and should have personally led a team of architects as part of large programs, providing guidance, coaching, and mentoring to ensure technical quality.
• Should have technology breadth (covering experience, architecture, analytics, cloud, and security) and depth in one or more of these areas to drive end-to-end technology solutions.
• Should be able to perform rough-order-of-magnitude estimation and costing to determine high-level TCO for large programs.
• Should have a high-level business and process understanding of one or more industries. Banking (FS) is preferred.
• Should have a view of how AI is shaping industries and how it can accelerate customer digital transformation journeys.
• Should have very good communication and articulation skills and be able to communicate at the right level of abstraction and detail when interacting with CXOs, middle management, and developers.

Good to Have Skills & Experience

• Should have deep technology expertise in one or more areas such as Digital/Mobility, Customer/User Experience, APIs and Microservices, Search, Content Management, DAM, Commerce, CRM, Order Management, Analytics, Cloud, and SaaS/PaaS platforms, and be able to have deep-dive discussions with SMEs in these areas.
• Should have zero distance to code and be able to review detailed designs, code, configurations, and data models, and provide specific inputs to architects and developers.
• Should have a very good understanding of EA frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) and should have applied one or more of these frameworks in practice.
• Should have a good understanding and exposure to products and platforms relevant to digital transformation.
• Should have a good understanding of leading open-source technologies, frameworks, and tools in the market.
• Should be able to work as part of a cross-cultural team, including flexibility to support multiple time zones when necessary.

Personal

Besides the professional qualifications of the candidates, we place great importance on various aspects of the personality profile. These include:

• High analytical and problem-solving skills.
• A high degree of initiative and flexibility.
• High degree of customer orientation and networking capability.
• Ability to work in large teams, lead from the front, identify conflicts, and resolve them proactively.
• Entrepreneurship.
• Ability to bring the OneInfosys spirit to the client.

Infosys is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, spouse of protected veteran, or disability.