Principal Architect

**Product Architect**

**Monday - Friday
CSC is looking for a Product Architect (PA) to join our team and help build a Product discipline,guiding the development and implementation of our future technology platforms. These platforms will help enable our significant programs and transform Enterprise Technology (ET)so that IaaS & PaaS can be delivered services to serve our business partners.

The Product Architect provides consultative enterprise architecture services to agile product teams. They will be responsible for the establishment and maintenance of the architecture, principles, and guidelines to guide ET’s effective design, delivery, and operations of ET products. The PA will also provide a broad range of services to the teams from supporting product strategy to providing guidance on individual architectural decisions.

**Leadership/Supervisory Role**:They help product teams proactively identify technical roadblocks, identify appropriate resolutions to those roadblocks and coordinate with delivery teams to ensure delivery of value to the business. ThePAensures 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.

The PA also coaches and mentors product team members on architecture thinking.

**Strategy**:The PA collaborates with product (portfolio) owners, product managers and other product stakeholders to create a product strategy, identify investments and create roadmaps that support business goals and align to the minimum viable architecture (MVA). They work with product team(s) to define and maintain the high-level target product and product portfolio architecture. The PA works 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.

**Collaboration**:The PA plays a highly collaborative role where he works closely with product owners, product stakeholders, and enterprise architecture team members in defining long-term strategies, roadmaps, products aligned to our future state aspirations.
- Work with product owners and product stakeholders to identify needed products and features.
- Work with Architecture to influence strategy and architecture roadmaps.
- Work with the cross-functional team to create, execute and govern product guidelines,standards and best practices.
- Collaborates in the design of MVA as required to support product strategies. Collaborates in the selection, acquisition, and adoption of new technologies.

**Some things you will do**:

- Build and grow strong and effective relationships within ET Leadership, CSC and its business units.
- 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.
- Collaborates with product (portfolio) owners, product managers and other product stakeholders to create a product strategy, identify investments and create roadmaps that support business goals and align to the minimum viable architecture (MVA).
- Define and maintain the high-level target product and product portfolio architecture.
- Integrate technology innovations by identifying opportunities for proof-of-concept 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 reference architecture.
- Provide guidance on architecture decisions based on enterprise guidance from reference architecture when available.
- Coach and mentor product team members on architecture thinking.
- Work with architecture community of practice to familiarize self with current enterprise guidance.
- Collaborate with other architect roles that support product management.
- Work with product teams to identify needed capabilities and features to enable product development.
- Collaborates with product owners and product managers to coordinate implementation of product-specific enablers.
- Coordinates with enterprise architects and portfolio managers to prioritize development of needed enterprise enablers.
- Serves as a member of architecture community of practice.
- Contributes principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to the MVA based on feedback and lessons learned during product development.
- Escalates product architecture decisions that are not compliant with MVA. Works with enterprise architects and other product architects to coordinate dependencies and shared capabilities across product lines.

**What technical skills, experience, and qualifications do you need?**
- Highly self-motivated and directed
- Ability to tran