Product Architect

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.