Solution Architect

**Advansys** is a dynamic solutions provider focused on delivering smart, modular, and sustainable technology solutions that enhance operations, improve customer experiences, and drive business modernization. With over 400 skilled engineers, we serve 100+ enterprise customers across 14 countries. Specialized in a wide array of premium services including Business Automation, Industrial Digitization, Low code Development, Cloud Services, Warehouse Automation & Strategic Outsourcing. Founded in 2014, Advansys is part of the INTRO Group, a private conglomerate established in 1980 with diverse investments across different business areas, oil and gas, real estate, specialized engineering, financial investment, Food & manufacturing. Primary Responsibilities and Accountabilities are: - To be a single point of contact (SPOC) as solution lead in engaging stakeholders (Internal to the bank), understanding their requirements, managing their demand and delivering an economically well assessed solution to the business problem in a timely manner. - Develop and maintain strong customer (internal) relations ensuring ''Customers for Life'' relationship with “Go Extra Mile” attitude. - Provide leadership role and guidance to solution team in assessing various solution options innovatively and facilitate in recommending most economical solution for the given business problem. - Provide leadership guidance with designing the governance activities associated with ensuring architecture compliance. - Conduct market research and provide high-level capabilities, solution approach (Build / Buy decision) and costing (mostly through leveraging industry & technology research & RFI/RFP/RFQ process). - Conduct various assessment like Solutions options, Normalization of functions & features (Like license, etc., Off-premise vs On-premise, etc.), articulate key functional, technical, IT operational, vendor support, etc., among the solution providers. - Deliver solution design and costing for the bank level new initiatives (mostly through RFP process) for an optimal solution to enable stakeholders to prepare a viable business case to seek funding from ITC. - Identify the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures and culture) and financial impact of the EA. - Document necessary EA design and analysis work, possibly including project postmortem documentation and metric collection. - Conduct technical peer revie **Requirements**: SKILLS - Required Knowledge and Skills - Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation and negotiation - Strong leadership skills - Excellent analytical and technical skills - Strong written and verbal communication skills - Excellent planning and organizational skills - Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations - Ability to estimate the financial impact of EA alternatives - Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies - Knowledge of many aspects of an EA technology domains (Various Server Technologies, Storage, Network and Software Stacks like OS, Application Servers and Database, etc.,) - Knowledge and experience in various infrastructure related optimization methods like virtualization, cloud computing, shared services, etc., - Basic knowledge of financial models and budgeting