R&d Distinguished Architect

AVEVA is creating software trusted by over 90% of leading industrial companies.
- Job Title: R&D Distinguished Architect
- Reports To: Value Realization R&D Lead
- Location: Bangalore, India (Hybrid)

Job Summary
- AVEVA's R&D organization seeks experienced and visionary architects to join our Value Realization group.
- As a Value Realization (VR) Distinguished Architect, you will be a critical bridge between business strategy and technology execution. You will belong to a leadership tuple (including VR Portfolio Lead and VR Program Manager) who will collaborate with various teams, and stakeholders to define, design, and implement solutions that solve customer’s jobs to be done.
- You will drive the architectural vision and design for complex, cross-domain solutions, ensuring alignment with AVEVA's overall technology strategy while delivering tangible business value in small incremental steps, called Initiatives, measuring success and course-correcting as needed.
- You will ensure that non-functional requirements & outcomes are stated and prioritized alongside their functional equivalents, continually be striving to strike the right balance to unlock customer value at speed while progressing the execution of our long-term technology strategy.
- You will excel at building consensus and fostering collaboration across teams, working closely with counterparts in all dimensions of the operating model (holistic and domain execution), acting as the glue to shape the evolutionary architecture, mitigate technical risks and challenges, and ensure alignment with the overall Town Plan Architecture. Your technical guidance and mentorship will empower the domain execution teams to innovate and maintain agility at the execution level while fostering a culture of technical excellence and ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.

Key Responsibilities- Be a collaborative member of the team of three leading the path to Value Realization with the VR Portfolio Manager and VR Program Manager.- Work closely with the Strategy and Prioritization Team to flesh out the Value Realization Canvas, ensuring goals, hypotheses, Jobs to be Done, and measures of success are cognizant of important non-functional considerations.- Drive solution architecture for value realization, finding creative ways to balance long-term needs with speed to market.- Contribute to identifying, prioritizing and shaping the Initiative Canvas to lead the delivery of tangible business value in small incremental steps, while being active in measuring success and course-correcting as needed.- Collaborate with Domain Execution Architects to develop evolutionary architectures for domain agnostic platform capabilities within the remit of your value realization, outlining the planned evolution of the architecture over time, considering both short-term needs to unlock custom value, with long-term strategic goals.-
- Driving alignment on quality and reliability standards of delivered software and collaborating with Domain Execution Leaders to ensure appropriate shift-left tactics are adopted and that related measures and signals are continuously reviewed to drive improvements.- Proactively identify and address potential architectural challenges and risks associated with your value realization and Initiatives, ensuring the long-term health and scalability of the solutions.- Foster a culture of architectural excellence, empowering teams to make informed technology and architecture decisions while contributing to your value realization.-
- Contribute to the definition of AVEVA's technology strategy, including the Town Plan Architecture and guiding principles, ensuring alignment with product vision and business objectives.

**Qualifications**:

- Education and Experience:
- 15+ years of experience in hands-on software engineering and architecture leadership roles.- Deep understanding of software development principles, architectural patterns, and cloud technologies.- Strong leadership skills, with the ability to influence and inspire teams.- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.- Experience working in a large, complex organization.
- Skills and Competencies:
- Deep technical expertise in designing and implementing scalable, resilient, and performant systems, with a strong understanding of relevant architectural patterns and technologies.- Proficient in creating and utilizing effective architecture and design documentation, including Architectural Decision Records (ADRs), promoting their use within teams to ensure shared understanding, consistent implementation, and transparent decision-making."- Experience leading and mentoring architecture teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence and collaboration.-
- Resolute - able to challenge the status-quo, questions assumptions and not be overly concerned with sunk cost when determining best path forward.-