Product Architect-Contract - (12 Months)

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Job description

Job Description

Contract roles are geared toward independent professionals interested in temporary or project-based work.

Sia Title: Project Consultant (Exempt Contractor)

Project Title: Product Architect

Level: Mid-Senior

Project Length: This is a temporary position with an expected duration of 12 months

Project Hours: 40 hours per week

Location: Remote

The expected compensation range for this contract is $249k to $270k per year. The exact pay rate will vary depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to skills, experience, and location.

Key Responsibilities: One of our premier clients is seeking a 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.

The right candidate must have a broad understanding of architecture domains (business, information, application, technology, etc.) and know how to apply concepts from those domains to the specific needs of their product team(s) while respecting the architecture principles and guardrails of the enterprise at large. For this scope of work, this role will have significant business and technology subject matter expertise for the product and product portfolio landscape.

The Product Architect will provide leadership in defining the product strategy in collaboration with the product stakeholders and ensure alignment between the business goals of the product and the technical architecture that supports it. They support distributed architecture decision making through regular consultation with product teams, identifying architecture decisions to be made and providing guidance on interpreting the reference architecture.

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.

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