Integration Architect

Overview:

Role Purpose

The purpose of the role is to create exceptional integration architectural solution design and thought leadership and enable delivery teams to provide exceptional client engagement and satisfaction.

1. Define integration architecture for the new deals/ major change requests in existing deals
2. Creates an enterprise-wide integration architecture that ensures that systems are seamlessly integrated while being scalable, reliable, and manageable.
3. Provide solutioning for digital integration for RFPs received from clients and ensure overall design assurance
4. Analyse applications, exchange points, data formats, connectivity requirements, technology environment, enterprise specifics, client requirements to set an integration solution design framework/ architecture
5. Provide technical leadership to the design, development and implementation of integration solutions through thoughtful use of modern technology

• Define and understand current state integration solutions and identify improvements, options & tradeoffs to define target state solutions

1. Clearly articulate, document and use integration patterns, best practices and processes.
2. Evaluate and recommend products and solutions to integrate with overall technology ecosystem
3. Works closely with various IT groups to transition tasks, ensure performance and manage issues through to resolution

• Document integration architecture covering logical, deployment and data views mentioning all the artefacts in detail
• Validate the integration solution/ prototype from technology, cost structure and customer differentiation point of view

1. Identify problem areas and perform root cause analysis of integration architectural design and solutions and provide relevant solutions to the problem
2. Collaborating with sales, program/project, consulting teams to reconcile solutions to architecture
3. Tracks industry integration trends and relates these to planning current and future IT needs
4. Provides technical and strategic input during the project planning phase in the form of technical architectural designs and recommendations
5. Collaborates with all relevant parties in order to review the objectives and constraints of solutions and determine conformance with the Enterprise Architecture.
6. Identifies implementation risks and potential impacts.
7. Enable Delivery Teams by providing optimal delivery solutions/ frameworks
8. Build and maintain relationships with technical leaders, product owners, peer architects and other stakeholders to become a trusted advisor
9. Develops and establishes relevant integration metrics (KPI/SLA) to drive results
10. Identify risks related to integration and prepares a risk mitigation plan
11. Ensure quality assurance of the integration architecture or design decisions and provides technical mitigation support to the delivery teams
12. Leads the development and maintenance of integration framework and related artefacts
13. Develops trust and builds effective working relationships through respectful, collaborative engagement across individual product teams
14. Ensures integration architecture principles, patterns and standards are consistently applied to all the projects
15. Ensure optimal Client Engagement
16. Support pre-sales team while presenting the entire solution design and its principles to the client
17. Coordinate with the client teams to ensure all requirements are met and create an effective integration solution

• Demonstrate thought leadership with strong technical capability in front of the client to win the confidence and act as a trusted advisor

1. Competency Building and Branding
2. Ensure completion of necessary trainings and certifications on integration middleware
3. Develop Proof of Concepts (POCs),case studies, demos etc. for new growth areas and solve new customer problems based on market and customer research
4. Develop and present a point of view of Wipro on digital integration by writing white papers, blogs etc.
5. Help in attaining market recognition through analyst rankings, client testimonials and partner credits
6. Be the voice of Wipro’s Thought Leadership by speaking in forums (internal and external)
7. Mentor developers, designers and Junior architects in the project for their further career development and enhancement
8. Contribute to the integration practice by conducting selection interviews etc.
9. Team Management
10. Resourcing
11. Anticipating new talent requirements as per the market/ industry trends or client requirements
12. Support in hiring adequate and right resources for the team through conducting interviews
13. Talent Management
14. Ensure adequate onboarding and training for the team members to enhance capability & effectiveness
15. Performance Management
16. Provide inputs to project manager in setting appraisal objectives for the team, conduct timely performance reviews and provide constructive feedback to own direct reports (if present)

Stakeholder Interaction

Stakeholder Type

Stakeholder Identification

Purpose of Interaction

Internal

Delivery teams

Define integration architecture and review integration artefacts, issue resolution

Pre-sales team

For solutioning and architectural design of integrations

Practice teams

To understand the different integration solutions, guidelines and best practices

Talent Transformation Team, Competency Group

Support delivery of Technical Trainings, knowledge sharing

Talent acquisition team

Recruitment

External

Vendors/ Partners

For strategic alignment and partnerships, training and building joint solutions

Industry forums

Best practices, market intelligence, knowledge sharing

Analysts

Industry trends, inputs to future architecture

Display

Lists the competencies required to perform this role effectively:

• Technical (Integration) Competencies/ Skill
• Digital Integration Knowledge - Awareness and knowledge of Integration Middleware covering Enterprise Service Bus, Service Oriented Architecture, Microservices, API Management, Integration Platforms as a Service, B2BI Gateways - Master
• Market Intelligence - Deep specialized understanding of industry trends, ecosystems, overall market & competition in digital integration - Master
• Systems Thinking - Understanding system design (interrelatedness, interdependencies and boundaries) and perform problem solving in a complex environment - Expert
• Leveraging Technology - In-depth knowledge of and mastery over integration middleware that commands expert authority respect - Master
• Asset reusability - ability to re-use the assets to ensure scalability and optimization - Expert
• Technical knowledge - architecture design principles, framework and documentation - Expert

Competency Levels

Foundation

Knowledgeable about the competency requirements. Demonstrates (in parts) frequently with minimal support and guidance.

Competent

Consistently demonstrates the full range of the competency without guidance. Extends the competency to difficult and unknown situations as well.

Expert

Applies the competency in all situations and is serves as a guide to others as well.

Master

• Behavioral Competencies
• Strategic perspective
• Technology Acumen
• Innovation
• Managing Complexity
• Client centricity
• Execution excellence
• Passion for results

Deliver

No.

Performance Parameter

Support sales team to create wins

Delivery Responsibility in Projects/Programs and Accounts

(a) Solution acceptance of Integration architecture (from client and/or internal Wipro architecture leadership), and

Delivery support

Capability development

% trainings and certifications completed, increase in ACE certifications, thought leadership content developed (white papers, Wipro PoVs)