Solution Architect - Energy and Utilities

Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.

Job Description

Role Purpose
The purpose of this role is to increase revenue, maximize process efficiency & cost-effectiveness, and ensure excellent customer experience, through effective supervision of daily operations and personnel, contract compliance, resource optimization and capability development within an account.

Roles & Responsiblity

Create GIS-based utility modernisation offerings; define pipeline monitoring and asset intelligence use cases; support utility and infrastructure client engagements; build proposals and modernisation frameworks; conduct workshops and solution walkthroughs; create utility-focused POVs and collateral; support RFPs with scope, assumptions, capability responses and technical inputs; work with GIS analysts to build utility GIS datasets, dashboards, geospatial layers, remote sensing workflows and infrastructure analytics demos; track energy, utilities and infrastructure GIS trends.

Essential Hiring Skills

• Utility GIS and infrastructure mapping
• Asset intelligence and pipeline monitoring use cases
• Network visibility and outage visualisation; spatial analytics
• Ability to create utility modernisation offerings, proposals, POVs and solution frameworks
• Conduct client workshops and demos
• Excellent English written and verbal communication for global client interaction.
• Power distribution / transmission data, gas or pipeline networks, renewable infrastructure, remote sensing, asset management platforms, field operations support, dashboards, GIS tools, infrastructure analytics and utility network models.
• Experience in utility GIS, infrastructure mapping, asset intelligence, pipeline monitoring, network visualisation, outage analytics, remote sensing, geospatial data operations, solution consulting, pre-sales or RFP support.

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Do

• Maximize process efficiency and cost effectiveness through strategic planning, contract compliance and governance mechanisms 

• Strategy Planning with Senior Stakeholders 

  • Collaborate with leaders to provide strategic and operational plans associated with the account
  • Plan the strategy for the coming years by identifying new geographies for alternate revenue streams
  • Ensure a deep enough understanding of clientsâÃÂà individual experiences to head off potential issues before they become problems 

• Contract compliance & adherence 

  • Ensure all SLA parameters are met in the account and maintain a green card at all times
  • Review and drive appropriate actions/ systemic changes on internal and external audit findings to ensure no major non-compliances are cited
  • Monitor and review the account on various delivery parameters to ensure quality delivery as per budget and timelines

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• Delivery governance in the account 

  • Understand customer goals and key performance metrics and ensure exceeding those goals throughout the project 
  • Ensure a green card for all accounts in terms of performance and quality
  • Monitor and review delivery dashboards/ MIS across accounts to track progress and identify potential red flags
  • Participate and share account performance across operational, quality and fulfillment parameters with internal and external stakeholders
  • Lead and manage project escalations, potential risks or early warning signs on project delivery to eliminate any revenue leakage
  • Ensure regular invoicing as per the contract terms and condition
  • Forecast and track key account metrics

• Invoicing

  • Timely submission of invoices to the client as defined in the SOW
  • Provide information required and resolve any invoicing issues raised by the client

• Collect and analyze statistics (costs, customer service metrics etc.)

•  Assume responsibility of budgeting and tracking expenses

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• Ensure outstanding performance against key metrics mentioned in the agreement

• Regular cadence around contract compliance

  • Evaluate performance with key metrics (accuracy, customer service metrics etc.)
  • Set direction for the team, track progress against targets through regular cadence calls and course correct as require
  • Drive the focus of the team on quality and adherence to contract compliance processes
  • Drive and implement structured cadence around quality, both process and transactional
  • Cadence with delivery lead to ensure margins are met and the account numbers are at par to what is committed 
  • Weekly calls with WFM to ensure resource optimization, compliance to the manpower numbers agreed in the contract, future planning in case of ramp ups etc.

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• Resource Allocation & Retention
  • Conduct effective resource planning to maximize the productivity of resources (people, technology etc.)
  • Review and monitor resource planning and fulfillment in line with account requirements and costs of delivery 
  • Optimize manpower and minimize leakages by working closely with delivery head
  • Ensure retention by offering relevant trainings and certifications of all allocated resources 
  • Lead one-on-one floor connect and other engagement activities to improve stickiness of the delivery team 
• Collaborate and influence internal key stakeholders to manage and resolve issues to ensure fulfillment and flawless delivery of projects

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