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. • gile methodology, DevOps, and CI/CD preferred. • Microservices-based architecture preferred. • bility to understand and explain electric utility single line diagrams preferred. • bility 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.

Created: 2024-11-19