Technical Architect - Apache Kafka

Job Description Role Overview: As a Technical Architect - Apache Kafka at Wipro Limited, your role will involve creating exceptional architectural solution designs and providing thought leadership to enable delivery teams to ensure exceptional client engagement and satisfaction. You will be responsible for developing architectural solutions for new deals and major change requests, providing technical leadership in design and implementation, and collaborating with various teams to ensure successful delivery. Key Responsibilities: - Develop architectural solutions for new deals and major change requests - Create an enterprise-wide architecture that ensures scalability, reliability, and manageability - Provide solutioning for RFPs received from clients and ensure overall design assurance - Develop a direction to manage the portfolio of solutions to better match business outcomes - Analyze technology environment, client requirements, and set collaboration solution design framework - Define current state solutions, identify improvements, and define target state solutions - Articulate, document, and sell architectural targets, recommendations, and reusable patterns - Evaluate and recommend solutions to integrate with the overall technology ecosystem - Collaborate with various teams to transition tasks, ensure performance, and manage issues - Perform detailed documentation of architectural design and solutions - Validate solutions from technology, cost structure, and customer differentiation perspectives - Identify problem areas, perform root cause analysis, and provide relevant solutions - Collaborate with sales, program/project, and consulting teams to reconcile solutions to architecture - Track industry and application trends and relate them to current and future IT needs - Enable Delivery Teams by providing optimal delivery solutions and frameworks - Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders to become a trusted advisor - Develop relevant technical, business process, and support metrics to drive results - Manage multiple projects, report status, and adhere to project management standards - Identify risks and prepare risk mitigation plans for projects - Ensure quality assurance of all architecture or design decisions - Recommend tools for reuse and automation for improved productivity - Develop and maintain enterprise framework and related artifacts - Build effective working relationships through respectful engagement across teams - Ensure architecture principles and standards are consistently applied to projects - Support pre-sales team in presenting solution design to clients - Competency Building and Branding - Ensure completion of necessary trainings and certifications - Develop Proof of Concepts, case studies, demos for new growth areas - Develop and present Wipro's point of view on solution design and architecture - Attain market recognition through analyst rankings, client testimonials, and partner credits - Mentor developers, designers, and Junior architects for career development - Contribute to the architecture practice through selection interviews - Team Management - Anticipate talent requirements and hire adequate resources - Ensure onboarding, training, and career progression for team members - Manage team attrition and drive diversity in leadership positions - Set goals, conduct performance reviews, and provide feedback to direct reports - Lead engagement initiatives, track team satisfaction scores, and build engagement within the team Qualifications Required: - Mandatory Skills: Apache Kafka - Experience: 8-10 Years (Note: Company details have been omitted as they were not explicitly mentioned in the job description) Role Overview: As a Technical Architect - Apache Kafka at Wipro Limited, your role will involve creating exceptional architectural solution designs and providing thought leadership to enable delivery teams to ensure exceptional client engagement and satisfaction. You will be responsible for developing architectural solutions for new deals and major change requests, providing technical leadership in design and implementation, and collaborating with various teams to ensure successful delivery. Key Responsibilities: - Develop architectural solutions for new deals and major change requests - Create an enterprise-wide architecture that ensures scalability, reliability, and manageability - Provide solutioning for RFPs received from clients and ensure overall design assurance - Develop a direction to manage the portfolio of solutions to better match business outcomes - Analyze technology environment, client requirements, and set collaboration solution design framework - Define current state solutions, identify improvements, and define target state solutions - Articulate, document, and sell architectural targets, recommendations, and reusable patterns - Evaluate and recommend solutions to integrate