POST NAME: Assistant Vice President (IT-Architect)
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION (AS ON 31.08.2024):
BE/ BTech in (Computer Science/ Computer Science & Engineering/ Information Technology/ Software Engineering/ Electronics & Communications Engineering or equivalent degree in relevant discipline) or MCA or MTech/ MSc in (Computer Science/ Information Technology/ Electronic & Communications Engineering)
PREFERRED EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
MBA as an additional qualification is preferred.
From recognized University/ Institute. approved by Govt./ UGC/ AICTE
OTHER PROFESSIONAL COMPULSORY/PREFERRED CERTIFICATIONS
Preferred:
Relevant Industry standard certifications like TOGAF / Zachman Valid as on 31.08.2024.
ANNUAL CTC Range – Within the upper Cap of Rs. 35.00 Lacs.
POST QUALIFICATION WORK EXPERIENCE(AS ON 31.08.2024)
Minimum 08 years’ post basic qualification experience in IT Industry/ BFSI or IT Vertical of an Organization.
SPECIFIC SKILLS (AS ON 31.08.2024)
As an IT Architect having –
- Knowledge of enterprise architecture and design, including frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman.
- Hands on experience in designing systems to meet High Availability, Scalability and resilience requirements.
- Adopt Architectural best practices during reviews and implementation.
- Knowledge of new and upcoming technologies.
- Ability to identify and resolve performance issues and bottlenecks.
Expert in any of the specific Architecture domains as described in Job Profile Section.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Technology Architect:
- To provide technology architecture expertise and guidance across multiple business divisions & technology domains.
- Expertise in Java technologies or .NET technologies and middleware technologies and cross platform Mobile application development tools like IBM MEA / Kony etc.
- Hands on experience in development of applications including web services, web APIs, message queue, service oriented and microservices architecture.
- Should have experience in Databases like NoSQL, Oracle, Postgres etc.
- Drive technology strategy from an architecture perspective, across a portfolio of applications in the Bank, for resource optimization and Risk mitigation.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders in IT infra domain, IT-vendors, and other architects to achieve enterprise business goals.
Security Architect:
- Responsible for suggestion and implementation of new security solutions / tools / technologies.
- Participate in architecture design discussions to drive secure development and implementation best practices and security compliance.
- Serve as a subject matter expert in security & data communications and be responsible for the analysis and design of effective and secure network systems, infrastructure, and related technologies, while partnering with business units especially Information Security.
- Knowledge of IT security standards and frameworks (such as MITRE, COBIT, CISA, ISA , ISO 27001/2,ISO 31000, NIST 800, ISO 17799 etc.)
- Understand Data leakage prevention techniques and tools.
Infrastructure Architect:
- Create Secure IT Infrastructure Architecture and roadmap for the enterprise.
- Design / Review Enterprise Infrastructure (Compute / Storage / Network) to meet industry best practices, Regulatory & security compliance and high-level performance and ensure alignment against business/design goals, DR and BCP.
- Providing technical input and know-how to architecture governance processes and forums for various Infrastructure projects.
- Assess business needs, capacity management, infra resource sizing and technical framework.
- Adopt best practices in migration of IT infrastructure platforms (On-premise / Cloud / Hybrid) and
- Provide inputs on infrastructure elements and requirements related to infra virtualization, Software-defined Infrastructure, Private/Public cloud / container platforms.
Integration Architect
- Create enterprise-wide integration architecture that ensures that all enterprise systems are seamlessly integrated while being scalable, reliable, and manageable.
- Understand current state integration solutions and identify improvements and gaps to define target solution architecture.
- Develop and establish relevant integration metrics (KPIs / SLAs) to drive results.
- Ensure integration architecture principles are consistently applied and adopted
- Integration of enterprise application modules / components with 3rd party / COTS / Cloud solutions/internal downstream applications.
- Hands on experience with middleware platforms like IBM Integration Platform, Mulesoft, Google etc. including ability to handle optimal configurations to meet performance requirements.
API Architect:
- Exposure to application integrations & API Architecture and Restful design principles
- Hands on experience on ESB, API Gateway, API repository, Security, Monitoring etc.
- Proficiency in API development tools and frameworks such as Swagger, RAML, or Postman
- Experience with public/hybrid cloud computing platforms like AWS, Azure etc.
- Ability to re-architect monolithic applications to API/Micro-services-based architecture.
Performance Architect:
- Participate in architecture reviews to identify potential issues, bottlenecks and provide guidance for resolution of performance issues.
- Ability to define and document performance goals such as KPIs /SLAs.
- Expertise in building Full Stack applications with focus on performance and low latency.
- Ability to debug and profile all types of applications and provide resolution for performance issues.
- Good understanding of Networking fundamentals, OSI Stack, DNS, TCP protocols, Browser rendering and various stages of execution.
- Expertise on working with micro-services, API servers, databases, cloud native development, observability, alerting and monitoring systems.
- Expertise on working with Performance Test Tools like LoadRunner, JMeter etc.
Application Architect:
- Expertise in Java technologies or .NET technologies and middleware technologies, Mobile/Web technologies etc.
- Develop architectural solutions for new solutions / changes to existing applications and solutions for the Bank
- Understanding enterprise business requirements and mapping them into technical solutions.
- Create high level and low-level design documents and Define metrics to measure performance of applications.
- Create enterprise-wide architecture of applications ensuring reliability, scalability, manageability, and security compliance.
- Ability to create, evaluate reference architectures and ensure enterprise wide buy-in, adoption, adherence, and compliance.
Cloud Architect:
- Lead architecture assessment of applications and enable cloud readiness and migration involving VMWare, AWS, Azure etc. platforms.
- Understanding of cloud security principles to be incorporated in architectural design and documentations.
- Good understanding on cloud native services for cloud native development.
- Designing and deploying dynamically scalable, available, fault-tolerant, and reliable applications on the Cloud.
- In-depth experience in designing secure solutions architecture for Cloud platforms (Private / Public / Hybrid).
- Knowledge and experience of implementation with container platforms like Tanzu / Openshift etc.
- Understanding of Cloud Services and it’s pricing models.
Data Architect:
- Responsible for maturing and extending data management, data engineering, metadata management, Data Warehouse, Data Lake and Data virtualization/fabric solutions across the organization.
- Responsible for architecting & designing Enterprise Data Platform Solutions.
- Evaluate current state architecture and recommend changes with a focus on modernization of Data platform (Integration ETL, ELT, API/ESB and Data Virtualization), and DWH, Data Lake technology stacks from IBM/Teradata/SAP/Oracle etc.
- Identify and mitigate issues related to data quality
- Hands on experience on data reconciliation, storage (capacity planning), data governance, data quality, data cataloguing, lineage using different tools with AI/ML capabilities.
- Should be able to implement data related standards like GDPR, DPDP Act etc in the Bank.
- Knowledge of reporting tools like IBM Cognos, Tableau, Power BI etc.
DevOps Architect:
- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines to automate and optimize software deployment.
- Collaborate with development and operations teams to streamline code releases.
- Evaluate and recommend DevOps tools and technologies based on organizational needs.
- Lead training and conduct workshops on DevOps best practices and toolsets for internal teams.
- Stay updated with emerging DevOps trends and incorporate relevant innovations into the Bank's processes.
- Strong knowledge of DevOps platform tools like Jenkins, Maven, GitLab, Ansible, Sonarqube, HPfortify, Jmeter, Nagios, Kibana, scripting languages like shell, python, ruby, groovy.
- Knowledge of Integration with SAST and DAST Security Tools
- Expertise in container orchestration such as Tanzu, OpenShift etc., to deploy and manage applications in containers.