Job description
Functional Architect
Qualification:
B Tech/ MBA/ CA/ (BCom MCom) or equivalent industry experience
Responsibility:
-Bring knowledge and understand trends, business/technology best practices, needs and guide/advise existing engagements/give inputs to planning process across people, process, technology and data solutions/recommendations in a particular functional area (domain/technology/product/ infrastructure).
-Sales SupportContribute to Account Mining & Penetration efforts with active participation in customer planning process, including strategic planning phase vs execution phase.
-Drive RFP Response & Improving Quality of Response (more business value focused), structures solutions in terms of scoping, effort.
-Work with SME groups across domains/products to provide a complete end to end solution, including estimates and definition of critical factors, assumptions, and risks.
-Contribute to transformational and consulting deals vs staff augmentation.
-Drive oral presentations to the customers in area of domain/product expertise.
-Support revenue generation and be considered a FINDER.
-Market Scan and Brand Building.
-Bring working knowledge of customer business domain and/or product within a specific industry vertical/domain.
-Conduct secondary research on domain/industry specific solutions.
-Bring an understanding of competitive landscape.
-Identify key trends and forecasts in the given area of domain/industry.
-Prepare collateral, publications, technology papers etc for distribution.
-Work with account teams to develop and deliver new logos.
-Opportunity Identification.
-Work on opportunity identification, prioritization and input to the qualification process.
-Contribute to GTM activities with partners, vendors, industry analysts etc through active mindshare gain Webinars, White papers, speaking events etc.
-Knowledge Management.
-Contribute to TL, Design, PoVs, tools, templates, case studies etc artifacts into the knowledge management repository.
-Ensure all engagement artifacts are stored on knowledge repositories.
-Conduct quality review of KM artifacts prior to posting.
-Requirement Gathering and Gap Analysis.
-”Lead Requirement Gathering Workshops.
-Lead FitGap exercise and come up with the FitGap document.
-Come up with high level solution for identified gaps.
-Present FitGap Assessment of a process area based on his/her area of expertise.
-Project Support.
-Active involvement and ownership of The Requirements and Solution.
-Design Phase of small to medium sized delivery engagements.
-Creating business blueprint for small to medium sized engagements.
-Identifying gaps and recommending development/process changes.
-Validate system configuration design, creation of test scenarios, migration plans.
-Provide engagement oversight in areas of specialization as and when called upon.
-Monitor AVM SLAs, address ticket resolution escalations, and drive bestinclass process adaptation.
-Client Expectation Management.
-Deliver and measure value pre, during, & post delivery engagements.
-Ensure client satisfaction.
-Help customers execute organizational change programs.
-Develop quality deliverables with focus on qualitative and quantitative business case, value props, roadmap, ROI analysis etc.
-Client Management/Relationship Management.
-Support brand building activities.
-Proactively develop relationships with functional owners from the business in a process area.
-Navigate client”s organization to identify the right sponsors for a given solution.
-Support Expectation Management, Client Satisfaction Management, and Risk Management.
-Deliver and measure value pre, during, and post engagement and communicate to stakeholders.
-People Management.
-Active participation in recruitment activities identify and hire.
-Coaching & Mentoring functional leads.
-Conducting midyear and YEA feedback sessions.
-Goal and expectation setting for new and existing resources.
-Motivate through rewards and recognition, organize team events/initiatives.
-Conduct Performance Management Reviews.
-Demonstrate understanding and skillful handling of people issues.
-Identify skill gaps and create training courses around domain/product areas.
-Work with the Academy to plan the training calendar.
-Business Planning.
-Solution Conceptualization.
-Identify pain areas, opportunities and potential solution offerings by industry/domain with business impact.
-Contribute to new solution development, develop transformation tools and templates, productivity enhancement solutions/product ideation.
-Lead new solution offerings development by identifying/defining use cases, writing process blueprints and walkthroughs & collaborate with technology partners/support architects for offering development.
-Define and communicate business/technology solutions in language meaningful to stakeholders in the engagement, such as CBA, ROI, and IRR.
Must Have Skills
- SAP IBP CPI-DS
- HTTPS
- SOAP
- Operations & Production Mgmt
Role : Functional Consultant
Industry Type : IT Services & Consulting
Functional Area : Consulting
Employment Type : Full Time, Permanent Role
Category : IT Consulting
Education : UG :B.Tech/B.E. in Any Specialization, B.Com in Any Specialization
PG :M.Com in Any Specialization, MBA/PGDM in Any Specialization, CA in CA
