Innovation and Thought Leadership:

• ' • Participate in external forums (seminars paper presentation etc) to showcase Cognizant capabilities and insights.

• • Interact and engage with customers/ partners around new innovative ideas concepts assets.

• as well as industry trends and implications.

• • Participate in Beta testing of products / joint lab setup with customer to explore application of new technologies / products.

• • Identify areas where components/accelerators or design patterns could be reused across different accounts.

• • Create documents reports white papers (international/national) on the research findings.

Technology Consulting:

• ''• Define Problem statement for the customer.

• • Analyze application/ technology landscape process tools and arrive at the solution options best fit for the client.

• • Analyze Cost Vs Benefits of solution options.

• • Define the technology/ architecture roadmap for the client.

• • Articulate the cost vs benefits of options to key stakeholders in customer.

Alliance Management:

• ' • Identify alliance partners based on the understanding of service offerings and client requirements.

• • Identify areas for joint GTM with the partner.

• • Develop internal capabilities/complementary toolsets to support the GTM strategy.

• • Maintain the relationship with partners.

• • Act as the Cognizant technical POC for the specific technology/solution area.

Knowledge Management & Capability Development:

• ' • Provide inputs to teams for training etc.

• • Identify the training needs and conduct internal sessions to meet the same.

• • Partner with Cognizant academy to Create curriculum assessments training programs courseware based on new service offerings / solutions etc.

• • Update collateral on to the knowledge management repository.

• • Gain and cultivate domain expertise to provide best and optimized solution to customer.

Project Control and Review:

• • Perform architecture design review.

• • Identify opportunities for optimization of cost / time / asset utilization in complex projects and advise relevant teams accordingly where possible.

• • Provide advice to teams facing complex technical issues in the course of project delivery.

• • Conduct planned and unplanned technical audits for complex projects as applicable.

• • 'Define and measure project /program specific architectural and technology quality metrics.

• • Review outputs to ensure NFRs are met.

People Management:

• ' • Provide support to various project managers in identification of training needs of their sub ordinates.

• • Conduct training / certifications with the help of academy and mentoring with respect to technical skills on projects.

• • Support technical evaluation of external and internal candidates to meet project requirements.

• • Perform career guidance and performance management for team members.

Asset Development and Governance:

• ' • Provide thought leadership in conceptualizing the need and design of assets.

• • Track implementation of assets.

• • Improve asset effectiveness.

• • Improve deployment effectiveness.

Sales Support and Project Estimation:

• ' • Develop collaterals for proposals.

• • Conduct workshops at the client site to assist the sales team in sales support if required.

• • Compare various designs and propose appropriate technology solutions based on the understanding of the RFP and inputs from Architects.

• • Calculate and present estimates based on high level designs to management for supporting in go/ no go decisions.

• • Review estimations and resource plan.

• • Review risk and mitigation plan.

• • Anchor proposal development with cross linkages across multiple competency units & arrive at a coherent solution unique value propositions and clear differentiators.

• • Participate in client presentation and client visits.