Engineering Lead (Architect) at Tata Consultancy Services

Job Description :

Must Have:

• Minimum 13 yrs of experience
• Banking domain experience is important
• System Integration skills and guidelines on how to design for optimum operational support
• Good interpersonal skills, including listening, facilitation
• Ability to give the overarching guidance while diving deep per system
• Technical Best Practices, Good Design Pattern experience with practical implementation examples
• Facilitation skills to assist technical teams to align with / integrate to multiple systems, enable the right decisions to be made fast and for the future - type of senior Systems Integration role
• Ability to guide the team through a transition towards the target state in order to reduce risk to the organization of a big bang implementation
• Data Management skills to guide discussion on linking products across multiple systems with no common product definition , product master data , to align account data from across multiple transactional and account systems etc.
• Setting some clear principles of boundaries for systems (especially packages) to ensure packages are kept vanilla – work through pros and cons
• Knowledge transfer to Nedbank team to build skills

Good to Have 

• Work with Business Architects and Analysts to succinctly explain a Client Value Proposition and the Generic Product constructs to guide future designs within the system and budget constraints
• Establish a central Module related design principles, system boundaries etc. brining in best practices and knowledge to empower the team
• Oversee the multiple designs underway
• Sound understanding on the banking domain and fundamental concepts
• Understanding of the Agile concepts and experience in working in Agile projects
• Looking across all areas of architecture (TOGAF) and propose a technical sequential roadmap for entire landscape considering Business, Information, Technical, Infrastructure etc, with some specific deep dives on some concerning areas eg: legacy billing for Juristic clients to target state