He leads the development, maintenance, and modification of software to meet company needs and user suggestions. He also prepares program documentation, directs other analysts or programmers, and assigns, prioritizes, and monitors workloads.
Some responsibilities include:
Providing guidance and training to the team
Preparing status reports to the department manager
Ensuring projects are completed successfully in accordance with project goals and requirements
Maintaining proactive and cooperative relationships within the project team
Staying accessible to project team members
Keeping up-to-date with technology changes and direction
Providing expertise with application development methodologies and standards for program analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging, and implementation

A seasoned IT professional with over 30 years of rich & diverse experience across IT Consulting, Enterprise IT Architecting, Product Strategy Formulation, Solution Designing, Pre-sales, Practice Management, Project Management & Software Development. Proven abilities in managing stakeholder interests, effective trade-off analysis, enabling & guiding strategic IT decisions, designing the IT architecture and steering the implementation of end-to-end IT solutions aligned with the business objectives. Highly experienced in managing & delivering IT consulting engagements including hands-on due diligence exercises, IT architecture assessments and technology / product / application portfolio evaluation. Rich experience in leading IT Architecture design and IT Roadmap definition initiatives in key domains/ verticals including strategies to adopt contemporary paradigms like Cloud Computing, Big Data, mobility, etc. Proficient in leading the development of: - Multiple components/”views” of the Enterprise IT Architecture - "Application Architecture", “Integration Architecture”, "Information Architecture”, "Infrastructure Architecture" & other critical aspects viz. Performance, Reliability, Availability, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity Planning, etc. - Formal architectural specifications in compliance with standard frameworks (IEEE-1471, RM-ODP, TOGAF). - New Practices which entail building core competencies, enhancing intellectual assets, adopting new frameworks & methodologies, and focusing on people development initiatives.