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

Responsibilities

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.

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

Additional Information

Job Type: Contract 6+ months – Inside IR35

Job Location: London, UK

Client: Wipro

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