Role Purpose  
  
 The purpose of the role is to design, and architect VLSI and Hardware based products and enable delivery teams to provide exceptional client engagement and satisfaction.  
  
  
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  -  Define product requirements, design and implement VLSI and HARDWARE Devices. 
-  Constant upgrade and updates of design tools, frameworks and understand the analysis of toolset chain for development of hardware products. 
-  Ability to analyse right components and hardware elements to choose for product engineering or development.  
-  Ability to conduct cost-benefit analysis and choose the best fit design. 
-  Knowledge on end to end flow of VLSI including design, DFT and Verification and Hardware product development from design, selection of materials, low level system software development and verification.  
-  Needs by displaying complete understanding of product vision and business requirements 
-  Develop architectural designs for the new and existing products 
-  Part Implementation of derived solution 
-  Debug and Solve critical problems during implementation 
-  Evangelize Architecture to the Project and Customer teams to achieve the final solution. 
-  Constant analysis and monitoring of the product solution 
-  Continuously improve and simplify the design, optimize cost and performance 
-  Understand market- driven business needs and objectives; technology trends and requirements to define architecture requirements and strategy 
-  Create a product-wide architectural design that ensures systems are scalable, reliable, and compatible with different deployment options  
-  Develop theme-based Proof of Concepts (POCs) in order to demonstrate the feasibility of the product idea and realise it as a viable one  
-  Analyse, propose and implement the core technology strategy for product development 
-  Conduct impact analyses of changes and new requirements on the product development effort 
   
   -   Provide solutioning of RFPs received from clients and ensure overall product design assurance as per business needs   -  Collaborate with sales, development, consulting teams to reconcile solutions to architecture  
-  Analyse technology environment, enterprise specifics, client requirements to set a product solution design framework/ architecture  
-  Provide technical leadership to the design, development and implementation of custom solutions through thoughtful use of modern technology 
-  Define and understand current state product features and identify improvements, options & tradeoffs to define target state solutions  
-  Clearly articulate, document and sell architectural targets, recommendations and reusable patterns and accordingly propose investment roadmaps 
-  Validate the solution/ prototype from technology, cost structure and customer differentiation point of view  
-  Identify problem areas and perform root cause analysis of architectural design and solutions and provide relevant solutions to the problem  
-  Tracks industry and application trends and relates these to planning current and future IT needs 
 
-   Provides technical and strategic input during the product deployment and deployment   -  Support Delivery team during the product deployment process and resolve complex issues  
-  Collaborate with delivery team to develop a product validation and performance testing plan as per the business requirements and specifications. 
-  Identifies implementation risks and potential impacts. 
 
-   Maintain product roadmap and provide timely inputs for product upgrades as per the market needs  
-   Competency Building and Branding  
 -  Ensure completion of necessary trainings and certifications 
-  Develop Proof of Concepts (POCs), case studies, demos etc. for new growth areas based on market and customer research  
-  Develop and present a point of view of Wipro on product design and architect by writing white papers, blogs etc.  
-  Attain market referencsability and recognition through highest analyst rankings, client testimonials and partner credits  
-  Be the voice of Wipros Thought Leadership by speaking in forums (internal and external)  
-  Mentor developers, designers and Junior architects for their further career development and enhancement 
-  Contribute to the architecture practice by conducting selection interviews etc 
 
   
   Mandatory Skills:   VLSI Physical Place and Route.   
 Experience:   8-10 Years.