Product /Solution Architect

For our Client, we are looking for Product, Solution Architect.

• Manage the PA team capacity and demand - to assign team members to priorities and tasks
• Manage the PA team growth - working with internal and external teams to identify training and knowledge sharing activities to grow the team
• Improve processes and tooling - work to evaluate and improve the processes and tools used by the PA team to improve efficiency and efficacy of their role

• In addition to PA qualities, as a Senior Leader you bring:
  • Product Influence
    - help analyse and consolidate what PAs are seeing across the portfolio into a sensible strategic input to product roadmaps.
  • Delivery Improvements
    - work with PMO, Product Management, System Architecture and Software Engineering on areas of optimization as identified by your team. Influencing changes in ways of working and deliverables.
  • Mentoring
    - of both your team and other members of CTO.
     As a senior PA you are regarded as a voice of reason and respected for your broad view of all things technology and delivery focused.
  • Cloud Skills
    - experience of building Cloud products in Azure, AWS or GC with a hybrid or flexible deployment to on-premise.
  • The Product Architecture Lead is also expected to have ability to act as a Product Architect. The Architect role has key tasks that they work towards:
  • Product Architecture
    - when necessary, define or evolve a product architecture based on new requirements or overall system needs.
  • Solution Architecture
    - when required by System Architecture, help define a particular decision or solution for a customer deployment to guide development and customer technical leads.
  • Architecture Strategy
    - help guide engineering and product towards technologies and an architecture that meets business needs, being responsible for key design decisions when necessary.

• Product Architecture Ownership
  - help analyse and consolidate requirements into a technical solution as input to product roadmaps and for engineering to develop towards.
• Delivery Improvement Mindset
  - Identify areas of optimization for engineering to work towards to make realisation of the architecture easier and robust. Influencing changes in ways of working and deliverables.
• Technical Experience 
  Apply architectural and system design expertise to support critical decision points in both product and solution development. Clearly communicate the trade-offs of different approaches and help stakeholders make well-informed decisions based on cost, complexity, performance, and maintainability.
• Hands on mindset -
  where necessary get involved in setting up the foundations or help resolve critical issues together with engineering.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills
  - Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving and occasionally chaotic environment with diverse, opinionated stakeholders. Confident in navigating conflicting viewpoints, building alignment, and driving architectural and strategic discussions to actionable conclusions.

• Bachelor’s degree in an IT field or equivalent work experience, with at least 5 years of experience in a business systems analysis role or as a product owner, managing a complex product or feature within an enterprise
• A strong understanding of product management and agile software development methods, applied concepts and tools in modern product management and product design
• Ability to travel (up to 15% of time)

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