Product Architect Ii

Role Proficiency:
Provides Technology Consulting with expertise in technology drivers and trends. Enable the Technology vision and strategy for the business unit with support from Director I - Product Architecture. Responsible for the Product Architecture of assigned Product(s) in the business division.

Outcomes:

- Leads the team of Product Architecture professionals to deliver desired services with associated service levels
- Ownership and implementation of the technology vision across departments for given products/initiatives
- Ensure execution plans are aligned with business goals
- Enable the research and evaluation of new technology and new architecture/software designs
- Keep abreast with the latest trends and knowledge within technology space and deliver meaningful user experiences
- Drive technological innovation enabling technology refreshes and selection of alternative technologies while leveraging changing usage and trends in the industry
- In collaboration with leadership and the business define and refine standards processes and practices with regards to technology
- Evangelize and drive change across the organization; influencing leadership both within the Product teams and rest of the organization
- Work with pre-sales and product management teams in solution demonstrations.
- Drive the adoption of Architectural standards across the organization
- Collaborate with technology leadership across the enterprise to build partnerships in design
- Facilitate the creation review and sign off of project deliverables.
- Ensure identification analysis and resolution of systemic technical issues
- Lead creation and delivery of proof-of-concept and near production-ready code prototypes; demonstrating new technologies or design patterns to other technology teams
- Leverage technical experience to mentor and coach team members; building the next layer of Product Architecture leadership to attract and retain the best technology talent
- Enable efficient employment and recruitment activities; providing coaching and guidance to a team of Product Architecture professionals while promoting staff training and development
- Set OKRs and success steps for self/ team while providing feedback of goals for team members

Measures of Outcomes:

- Number of architectural and technical debts addressed for assigned Product/Initiatives
- High code quality with near 100% code coverage for assigned Product/Initiatives
- Zero showstopper issues in production environment for assigned Product/Initiatives
- Zero Severe/High/Medium vulnerabilities in products for assigned Product/Initiatives
- Number of technical and product certifications
- Number of mentoring/technical sessions delivered
- Number of ideas contributed to New Idea incubation and supported
- Number of contributions towards Architecture Systems and Reusable Assets
- Personal achievement of quarterly/yearly objectives (OKR Assignments HIG Stretch goals)

Outputs Expected:
Research and Development:

- Lead research and development
building POC as part of research or technical feasibility
- Guide junior architects in performing research; set directions for achievement of their goals
- Understand technology trends
software tools and systems
- Identify areas to explore
create prototypes and work on proof-of-concepts
- Develop reusable components and libs to enable rapid development
- Experiment with early ideas and technology; providing research results

Manage business to succeed in market acquisition:

- Protect assets and mitigate risks employing IP knowledge
- Instrumental in building disruptive products using technology

Manage great people:

- Lead a group of associate architects and mentor fellow architects; discuss diverse technical details with product architects and collaborate with them to make architectural decisions
- Lead teams
communicate with diverse groups
and influence change throughout the organization
- Set a vision of what s/he wishes to build and motivate the team to deliver the vision
- Prioritize
delegate
influence
persuade
and resolve
- Positive working relationships with product directors
client CTOs
engineering / product managers
product designers and product operations/support team
- Mentor fellow architects and engineering team members to learn and adapt to new technologies by practicing continuous learning.

Use great technology:

- Deep understanding of the utilization of technology platforms to build an echo-system for product development
- Use scrum / agile proficiency (backed up by CSPO / CSM certifications) for project delivery
- Leverage CI/CD to manage build and release pipelines

Technology Consulting:

- Define the problem statement for the customer
which is in alignment with primary business objectives of the client.
- Assess existing landscape across relevant dimensions like Business Architecture/Application Architecture/Data Architecture/Technology Architecture; identifying gaps between current state and potential target state