Solution Architect - Infrastructure Consulting

Responsibilities

Performs the analysis of services, products and technologies under guidance to provide input on the service offering and input on suitable customers for pursuits.

Evangelizes Infosys Tech Brand in specific areas (e.g., anchoring Tech Day, white papers, speaking in forums, etc.); Builds artifacts in new areas of competency to build collateral and Go-To-Market solutions.

Identifies opportunities in accounts or new technology areas and provides necessary credentials to support the Client Services team in prospecting.

Provides domain technical consultation to Pre-Sales, participates in proposal activities & discussions with customers and client visits as a domain SME; Participates in Consulting Assessments, POC, architects and validates complex technical solutions when required; Performs estimations & collateral consolidation, brings in alliance product offering/IPs to provide technical leadership and technical differentiators.

Interacts with vendors/alliances and understands the complimentary offering/products/IP/solutions to leverage partner technologies.

Provides technical inputs for contracting and deal negotiations to write relevant sections like SLA, assumptions, dependencies, etc., in the consulting contractual documents.

Organizes, documents, and reviews work items' scope from a technical viewpoint and approach to ensure completeness and consistency in scoping of the project.

Reviews and validates estimates for consulting projects and guides estimation for complex projects IN ORDER TO ensure correct sizing of the work.

Provides and reviews inputs on various competencies important for forming teams for projects to address resource competency requirements for the project.

Provides consulting inputs/insight into the complexity of architectural requirements; Reviews work breakdown structure & resources/task/activity planning, sets milestones and deliverables to ensure correctness and optimal scheduling of the project.

Reviews and validates the target metrics of a project from a technology perspective like tools usage, reusable frameworks, and feasibility to assist in achieving the quality target.

Reviews, identifies, and prioritizes technical risks to develop a risk mitigation plan.

Participates in project plan reviews and provides inputs to ensure accuracy of the plan.

Technical requirements

In-depth knowledge in virtualization (e.g., VMWare, Hyper-V), HCI, SDN, Databases, Middleware, Data Center Technologies and network optimization to support scalability and resource efficiency, with ongoing learning in DC consolidation trends. Be aware of industry or domain compliance needs. At least have one primary and one secondary skill

Leverage partnerships with HPE, Dell, Equinix (other DC providers), Hitachi, Veeam, and Commvault to bring best-in-class solutions, including optimized hardware, hybrid cloud options, data storage, and backup solutions. Partner lists are subject to change.

Additional responsibilities

Ability to define new architectures and anchor review of artifacts ability to define technology solutions for complex domain.

Appreciation of various consulting frameworks

Strong customer interactions and stakeholder management skills

Ability to leverage domain knowledge and experience to solve business it problems from technology perspective ability to switch context adapt between multiple technical services

Contribute to thought leadership participate in calls relationship with analysts in her/his focus areas

Identify and create printable artifacts guides and author papers

Help seniors in appraisals of juniors and career aspiration program and maintaining of technical discussions with customer technology experts to provide technical differentiation

Education

Bachelor of Engineering