Product Architect

Title-Product Architect

Location-Remote Ok

Duration-12 months

EST/CST candidates

Our client, a top tier Management & Strategy Consulting firm is searching a qualified Product Architect. The Product Architect provides consultative enterprise architecture services to both agile and waterfall-oriented product teams, composed of a mix of architecture, plan, deliver, and run functions within IT.

Requirements & Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Power Engineering, or related technical major/ discipline.

Seven (7) years of combined experience within information technology, operations, engineering, enterprise architecture, application development, and/or technical related field.

Five (5) years of hands-on product or project development activities including knowledge of standard System Development Lifecycle models, methodologies, and product standards.

Work products delivered in large enterprise systems and in a complex G&Client environment (e.g., system-of systems).

Collaboration with senior management, executives, and other stakeholders to identify opportunities.

Creation of high-quality presentations, proposals, statements of work, and assessment deliverables.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to translate complex technical information and synthesize for senior executive decision-making.

In-depth understanding of complex computer network and process control designs.

Broad and in-depth technical understanding of process automation, mainstream products & vendors, and industrial field protocols that run across complex computer networks and control system platforms.

Background in safety instrumented systems for an industrial G&Client solution environment

Master's degree in computer science or related engineering field, or information management preferred.

TOGAF certification or other enterprise architecture standards or frameworks preferred.

PMP certification and other related program management office experience preferred.

Electric utility business processes with an emphasis on theory of operations for Generation as well as Transmission and Distribution preferred.

Control systems, communication networks, cybersecurity technologies, and/or Operational Technologies (OT) preferred.

Agile methodology, DevOps, and CI/CD preferred.

Microservices-based architecture preferred.

Ability to understand and explain electric utility single line diagrams preferred.

Ability to understand the long-term ( "big picture ) and short-term perspectives of situations and contexts.

Responsible for understanding the context of the product or product portfolio within the organization and its competitive landscape.

Work with enterprise and business architects to document the business architecture that the product or product portfolio supports, including business capabilities, value streams and business processes.

Collaborate with product owners and other product stakeholders to create a product strategy, identify investments, and participate in roadmap creation that supports business goals and aligns to the minimum viable architecture (MVA).

Work with product team(s) to define and maintain the high-level target product and product portfolio architecture.

Support product teams to integrate technology innovation by identifying opportunities for proof-of-concept or unit development work to deploy new technologies that would support, enhance, improve or replace the product or product functions or features.

Identify critical architecture decisions that require alignment to enterprise and reference architectures.

Provide guidance on architecture decisions based on enterprise guidance from reference architecture when available.

Work with domain architects and domain engineers when deeper domain knowledge is necessary to support decision making relative to the product or product portfolio.

Coach and mentor, the product team members on product related architecture thinking.

Maintain subject matter knowledge of application & technology portfolio to support contextual decision making.

Work with product team to identify needed capabilities and features to enable product development.

Collaborate with product owner(s) and to coordinate implementation of product-specific enablers.

Coordinate with enterprise architects and portfolio/delivery managers to prioritize development of needed enterprise enablers.

Contribute principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to the MVA based on feedback and lessons learned during product development.

Escalate product architecture decisions that are not compliant with MVA.

Work with enterprise architects and other domain and/or product architects to coordinate dependencies and shared capabilities across product lines.