Lead Product Architect

Role Description

The (Lead) Product Architect is an inward-facing technical product role responsible for translating business requirements into scalable, high-quality technical solutions across multiple products within a domain. This position ensures product architecture, delivery, releases, and cross-product dependencies are aligned and effectively coordinated. You will safeguard the functional and technical feasibility, integrity, and quality of the product scope, while supporting domain-level alignment and enabling development teams to deliver against the strategic product roadmap.

Key Responsibilities

• Define Product Architecture
• Partner with the Product Manager to understand the product vision, strategy, customer and market needs, and roadmap.
• Contribute to the product vision and roadmap based on deep functional and technical expertise, product feedback, and emerging technology insights.
• Document functional and technical requirements, solution designs, architectural principles, and technical decisions.
• Validate technical feasibility, performance impact, scalability, and product integrity together with the lead developer.
• Align technical design with user experience, persona-based user stories, business requirements, and the overall product strategy.
• Ensure desired features are designed as part of a cohesive, scalable, and functional product.
• Work with the product team to apply Studio’s newly defined AI technology, processes, and ways of working.
• Oversee Product Development & Support
• Own and manage the product backlog, translating prioritised roadmap initiatives into epics and actionable work items.
• Work with development teams to design, build, test, and release products against the prioritised backlog and defined architecture.
• Facilitate development team ceremonies, support delivery cadence, and track progress against agreed work items and release schedules.
• Ensure the development team has a clear understanding of objectives, customer-driven requirements, and expected outcomes.
• Coordinate the product development lifecycle to ensure timely delivery and high-quality implementation.
• Manage implementation quality, testing outcomes, documentation, release notes, and complex Level 4 support topics.
• Align Cross-Product Architecture (Lead)
• Maintain an overview of all products within the domain and ensure architectural consistency across patterns, integrations, and technical decisions.
• Identify cross-product dependencies, assess the impact of new features, and mitigate architectural risks across the domain.
• Coordinate Domain Releases (Lead)
• Coordinate domain-level release planning, aligning scope, dependencies, timelines, and release practices across products.
• Support predictable delivery by proactively identifying and resolving cross-product risks and blockers.
• Facilitate Product Architect Alignment (Lead)
• Facilitate alignment between Product Architects, clarify ownership and responsibilities, and support decision-making on complex topics.
• Act as a trusted sparring partner for complex functional and technical matters across the domain.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Relevant experience as a Product Architect, Solution Architect, or similar role within a product development environment.
• Strong knowledge of the Microsoft technology stack, including Azure, Dynamics 365, and Power Platform.
• Understanding of modern product discovery and delivery methods, including user-experience-focused product design frameworks.
• Strong business and technical acumen, with the ability to translate business requirements into functional designs and technical specifications.
• Experience managing product lifecycles, backlogs, work plans, releases, and prioritised support requests.
• Strong collaboration, stakeholder management, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to align architecture, dependencies, release planning, and risks across multiple products within a domain.
• Curious and proactive in exploring AI and modern technologies, with a strong continuous learning mindset and the ability to translate technological developments into business value.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• The opportunity to shape product development at the forefront of Microsoft innovation, building technology products that drive business transformation.
• Opportunity to work with a talented and dynamic global team
• Professional growth and development opportunities