Product Architect - Remote

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 waterfalloriented product teams composed of a mix of architecture plan deliver and run functions within IT.

Requirements & Qualifications:

Bachelors 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 handson 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&GS environment (e.g. systemof systems).

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

Creation of highquality 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 decisionmaking.

Indepth understanding of complex computer network and process control designs.

Broad and indepth 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&GS solution environment

Masters 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.

Microservicesbased architecture preferred.

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

Ability to understand the longterm (big picture) and shortterm 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 highlevel target product and product portfolio architecture.

Support product teams to integrate technology innovation by identifying opportunities for proofofconcept 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 productspecific 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.