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Role:
Software
Architect
Location: Norwell, MA Onsite
Duration: 6 months
Job Overview
The technical software architect provides
consultative enterprise architecture services to agile product teams. They
are assigned to support one or more product teams and provide a broad range
of services to the teams from supporting product strategy to providing
guidance on individual architecture decisions.
A technical architect 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.
They provide leadership in defining the product
strategy in collaboration with the product manager and 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. 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.
Scope of Activities
The product architect is responsible to perform
activities across four key dimensions:
Define Product Strategy and High-Level Design
● Understands the context of the supported product
or product portfolio within the organization and its competitive landscape.
● 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.
● Collaborates with product (portfolio) owner,
product manager 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).
● Works with product team(s) to define and
maintain the high-level target product and product portfolio architecture.
● Supports product teams to integrate technology
innovation 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 support Architecture Decision Making
● Works with product team(s) to identify
architecture decisions to be made.
● Identifies critical architecture decisions that
require alignment to reference architecture.
● Provides guidance on architecture decisions
based on enterprise guidance from reference architecture when available.
● Works with domain architects (information,
application, security, etc.) when deeper domain knowledge is necessary to
support decision making.
● Coaches and mentors team members on architecture
thinking.
● Works with architecture community of practice to
familiarize self with current enterprise guidance.
● Maintains high-level knowledge of enterprise
application and technology portfolio to support contextual decision making.
● Collaborates with other emerging architect roles
that support product management, including product line architects, portfolio
architects and platform architects.
Manage the Architectural Runway
● Works with product team to identify needed capabilities
and features to enable product development.
● Collaborates with product owner and product
manager to coordinate implementation of product-specific enablers.
● Coordinates with enterprise architects and
portfolio managers to prioritize development of needed enterprise enablers.
● Assists enterprise architects with evaluation of
emerging technologies.
Support and Coordinate EA Practices Across Product
Lines
● 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.
Credentials and Experience
● Bachelor's degree in computer science,
information technology, engineering, system analysis or a related study, or
equivalent experience.
● Minimum of five years of experience in at least
two IT solution development disciplines, including technical or
infrastructure architecture, network management, application development,
middleware, database management or cloud development.
● Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies,
platforms and processing environments.
● Good understanding of strategic and emerging
technology trends, and the practical application of existing and emerging
technologies to new and evolving business and operating models.
● Good understanding of product management, agile
principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile
teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact, and risks,
taking account of technical and architectural debt.
● Experience working in a relevant industry is
helpful, but not required.
● Experience developing architecture blueprints,
strategies and roadmaps.
● Experience delivering presentations to
senior-level executives and technical audiences.
Skills
● Knowledge of various back-end development
languages like .Net, Java, Go and Python.
● Knowledge of various database technologies like
SQL and Oracle.
● Knowledge of various front-end web development
languages like JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
● Knowledge of various aspects of a technology
architecture like integration, network and security.
● Knowledge of information principles and
processes.
● Understanding and knowledge of system
development life cycle methodologies (such as agile software development,
rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize, and DevOps).
● Knowledge of different modeling languages (such
as UML and ArchiMate).
● Understanding of IT standards and controls.
● Excellent understanding of application
development methodologies and infrastructure and network architecture.
● Excellent analytical, planning, organizational
and technical and skills.
● Excellent written and verbal communication
skills.
● Ability to work with developers in an outsourced
environment.
● Meeting/discussion facilitation.
● Research.
Competencies
● Organizationally savvy, with the ability to
navigate organizational politics.
● Skilled at influencing, guiding and facilitating
stakeholders and peers with decision making.
● Ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to
technical and nontechnical audiences.
● Ability to understand the long-term ("big
picture") and short-term perspectives of situations.
● Ability to translate future-state business
capabilities and requirements into solution architecture requirements.
● Ability to propose and estimate the financial
impact of solution architecture alternatives.
● Ability to work creatively and analytically to
solve business problems and propose solutions.
● Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and
capabilities of new technologies.
Characteristics
● Trusted and respected as a thought leader who
can influence and persuade business and IT leaders and IT development teams.
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