Assistant Vice President - Enterprise Computing

A Position Overview

Position Title

• Cloud Architect

Department

• TDA-BSG (IT)

Level/ Band

• AVP/VP

Role Summary:

B Organizational Relationships

Reports to

• Sr.VP - Head of Enterprise Computing

Supervises

• Cloud operation teams, DevOps team and other cross functional project teams

C Job Dimensions

Geographic Area Covered

• Pan India

Stakeholders

• Internal: All Departments
• External: Cloud partners, Implementation Partners, IRDA, Security

D Key Result Areas

• Ensure business solution meets customer requirements and adheres to Alliance defined standards
• Assist strategic project team on technical and functional area
• Identify reusable components to create a service catalog that can be leveraged to accelerate solution delivery
• Identify areas of improvement & ensure application architecture as per current standards and technology innovations are in place
• DevOps tools implementation for CI/CD
• Capacity Management and Emerging technologies POC
• Act as interface between Business & delivery team on business solution, effort estimation, capacity planning, design patterns to be adhered
• Contributes to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas
• Identifies and evaluates alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability
• Produces specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers and interfaces, for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products
• Supports a change programme or project through the preparation of technical plans and application of design principles that comply with enterprise and solution architecture standards (including security)
• Designs components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology
• Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs. Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders of the architecture and to handle both functional and non-functional requirements
• Models, simulates, or prototypes the behaviour of proposed systems components to enable approval by stakeholders
• Produces detailed design specification to form the basis for construction of systems
• Reviews, verifies, and improves own designs against specifications

Software Design

• Designs software components and modules using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed software design standards, patterns, and methodology
• Creates and communicates multiple design views to identify and balance the concerns of all stakeholders of the software design and to allow for both functional and non-functional requirements
• Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs. Recommends designs which consider target environment, performance security requirements and existing systems
• Reviews, verifies, and improves own designs against specifications. Leads reviews of others designs
• Models, simulates, or prototypes the behaviour of proposed software to enable approval by stakeholders, and effective construction of the software
• Verifies software design by constructing and applying appropriate methods
• Provides technical expertise to enable the configuration of software, other system components and equipment for systems testing
• Collaborates with technical teams to develop and agree system integration plans and report on progress
• Ensures that integration test environments are correctly configured
• Designs, performs and reports results of tests of the integration build
• Identifies and documents system integration components for recording in the configuration management system
• Recommends and implements improvements to processes and tools
• Analyse Process and systems to mitigate risk and provide solutions for non-stated functional requirements
• Ensure all IT design and architecture risks are managed
• Guide extended team in sequencing the project deliverables to ensure all the building blocks fit in properly with no rework and surprises
• Review provided technical, integration, database design artifacts and source code if required
• Mentor to the application development team on appropriate use of architecture, Java / J2EE and SOA design patterns
• Mentoring the team on technical and business-related areas
• Help in coordination between different verticals of IT / DC Team
• Ensure compliance to AIA and TALIC rules and standards
• Constantly align with the IT team, Vendor team and business stakeholder

E Competencies

Competency For: Business Acumen and Strategic Orientation

Proficiency Scale: 3

Proficiency Scale Description:

• Ability to align with the organizations vision with a fair understanding of the insurance industry, regulations, financial markets and the agency business model in order to deliver profitable and sustainable business growth
• Has an in-depth understanding of the market of operations and proposes changes if required as per market dynamics
• Understands how and to what extent business complexities impacts ones own area of work
• Is able to identify trends and analyze performance of self and various branches in ones geography
• Has expert knowledge of BA model, BA compensation and Agent commission and progression and uses it to deliver superior performance
• Is able to device plans to recruit, develop and sustain distributors on a long term basis with organization
• Strives towards achieving proportionate business contribution from all the branches of assigned territory

G Skills Required

Technical

• Relevant experience working with Azure or another public cloud solution (AWS/GCP)
• 7+ Years experience implementing and supporting Microsoft cloud services, specifically: Azure IaaS, Monitoring Services, Cloud Backup Services, or Site Recovery Services
• 2 Years experience with Microsoft Hyper-V and Virtual Networking
• Expertise around Azure delta lake, big data, CDC is must to have
• Experience as an Azure Admin working with: Azure AD, Azure MECM (formerly SCCM), Azure Update Management, and Migrating workloads
• Knowledge of design or implementation of on-premises Private Clouds, including any of the following: Azure Stack Hub or Azure Stack HCI
• Relevant experience with IaaS and PaaS services, SQL Azure, Azure Sentinel, Migration from On-premise environments to Azure platform, Windows Server services and configuration and deployment, Active Directory (DNS, DHCP, Radius, etc), Hybrid On-premise & Azure platform
• Fundamental experience with Azure cognitive services (ML, AI, etc), Azure DevOps and Azure Data & Databases
• Ability to effectively manage complex relationships
• A communication style which positively impacts
• Flexibility & resilience
• Ability and willingness to challenge constructively and effectively
• Good communication skills
• University Bachelor Degree or preferably with an Engineering degree in Electronics and Telecommunications or Information

Behavioral

Essential / Desired

• Interpersonal skills
• Communication skills
• Creative thinking skills
• Supervising/Leadership skills
• Teamwork Skills
• Influencing skills
• Relationship Building skills
• Decision making skills

H Incumbent Characteristics

Qualification

• B.E
• Microsoft certifications preferred - Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104), Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-303 and Z-304, or AZ305), any other Azure certifications would be an advantage
• Azure SDN or Azure ARC experience a plus

Experience

• 15 plus years of Java / J2EE, mobility, cloud base framework based development and architecture experience
• DevOps tools implementation for CI/CD
• Capacity Management and Emerging technologies
• Azure setup
• Good interpersonal and communication skills with ability to build productive relationships across the participants in the ecosystem
• Experience with IBM WebSphere Portal Server, IBM WebSphere Process Server, IBM WAS, File Net, JMS etc.
• Experience with prominent Architecture frameworks such as Zachman, TOGAF, FEAF
• Experience in digital business transformation
• 10 +year of experience in Solution Architecture, Experience in J2EE Frameworks, open source, Java Security, JMS, etc.