Solution Architect - Infrastructure Consulting

Educational Requirements Service Line 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.

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

Technical and Professional 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.

Preferred Skills

• Technology->Cloud Integration and API Management->Hybrid Cloud Integration