Snowflake Admin

**Architect**

**Qualification**:
Bachelors in science, engineering or equivalent
** Responsibility**:
Innovation and Thought Leadership
- Participate in external forums (seminars, paper presentation etc) to showcase Cognizant capabilities and insights under guidance of senior team members.
- Understand client's existing business and explore new avenues to save cost and bring process efficiency.
- Identify business opportunities to create reusable components/accelerators and reuse existing components and best practices.
- Support the patent filing process for the IP assets created (applicable to some CoEs).
- Technology Consulting.
- Analyze Cost Vs Benefits of solution options.
- Support Sr Architect to create a technology/ architecture roadmap for the client.
- Alliance Management.
- Identify alliance partners based on the understanding of service offerings and client requirements.
- In collaboration with Sr Architect, create a compelling business case around the offerings.
- Conduct beta testing of the offerings.
- Knowledge Management & Capability Development.
- Publish and Maintain a repository of solutions, best practices and standards and other knowledge articles.
- Conduct and facilitate knowledge sharing and learning sessions across the team.
- Gain industry standard certifications on technology and architecture consulting.
- Support Technical skill building (including hiring and training) for the team based on inputs from project manager.
- Mentor new members in the team in technical areas.
- Gain and cultivate domain expertise to provide best and optimized solution to customer.
- People Management.
- Set goals & Manage performance of reporting team members.
- Provide career guidance to team members.
- Asset Development and Governance.
- Understand the plan for asset development.
- Design assets as per plan (if required).
- Conduct pilot run/review to validate the assets, as feasible.
- Track utilization of reusable assets / architecture components across the organization.
- Sales Support and Project Estimation.
- Support for developing RFPs and collaterals for proposals from a technical solution/ estimation/ risks perspective.
- Conduct demo's, and arrange for the demos based on client profiles, if required.
- Anchor proposal development with crosslinkages across multiple competency units to arrive at a coherent solution proposal with focus on presenting unique value propositions and clear differentiators.
- Requirement gathering and Analysis.
- Work with customer and other teams to collect, analyze and understand the requirements including NFRs.
- Analyze gaps/ tradeoffs based on current system context/ industry practices and clarify the requirements by working with the customer.
- Solution Definition & Design.
- Develop / Enhance the solution architecture (Application / technical / Infrastructure as applicable) meeting functional / non functional requirements and aligned to industry best practices.
- Solution Design (including Data modeling, Application design, Infrastructure design, Team structure) & Capacity sizing to meet the requirements & SLAs of target state and intransition as applicable.
- Identify Proof Of Concept testing (POC) needs and conduct POCs as applicable.
- Identify need for developing accelerators and Develop as applicable specific to the engagement.
- Identify key technical metrics to measure the SLA / requirements compliance.
- Define, adopt and create required documentation on standards and guidelines.
- Stakeholder Management.
- Monitor the concerns of internal stakeholders, follow through on commitments and achieve timely resolution of issues.
- Conduct initiatives to meet client expectations.
- Work to expand professional network in the client organization.
- Project Management Support.
- Assist the PM to identify technical risks and comeup with mitigation strategies.
- Business and Technical Research.
- Analyze market trends / client requirements/ secondary research.
- Identify new ideas and provide inputs to senior stakeholders for developing blueprint / PoC.
- Brand Building.
- 'Organize/ Participate in events like webinars, boot camps, seminar conference, client conference to showcase the capability.
- Identify opportunities to crosssolutionize across project(s) within or outside the BU.

**Must Have Skills**
- Snowflake

**Employee Status **:Full Time Employee

**Shift **:Day Job

**Travel **:No

**Job Posting **:May 23 2023

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