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KaylaTek, Inc. Electric Power Generation and Grid Solutions (G&GS) Product Architect in Washington, District Of Columbia
140000-160000 per year Salary plus benefits | Washington, DC, USA | Salary | Full Time
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JOB SUMMARY:
The Product Architect provides consultative enterprise architecture services to both agile and waterfall-oriented product teams. The product teams are usually composed of a mix of architecture, plan, deliver, and run functions within IT. Product teams are client facing and are the primary groups that business interacts and engages with. This role can be assigned to one or more product teams and provides a broad range of expertise and service from supporting product strategy to providing guidance on individualized architecture decisions. As is the case with the product team, this role will be client facing and require senior client interaction skill sets.
A Product 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. For this scope of work, this role will have significant business and technology subject matter expertise for the Electric Power Generation and Grid Solutions (G&GS) product and product portfolio landscape. The Product Architect will provide leadership in defining the product strategy in collaboration with the 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.
CERTIFICATIONS PREFERRED:
Certified in The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) or other enterprise architecture standards or frameworks AND
PMP certification and other related program management office experience.
SHIFT: Remote work with occasional travel
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Understands the context of the Electric Power Generation and Grid Solutions (G&GS) product or product portfolio within the organization and its competitive landscape. • Works with enterprise and business architects to document the business architecture that the G&GS product or product portfolio supports, including business capabilities, value streams and business processes. • Collaborates with product owners and other product stakeholders to create a product strategy, identify investments, and participate in roadmap creation that supports business goals and aligns to the minimum viable architecture (MVA). • Works with product team(s) to define and maintain the high-level target Electric Power Generation and Grid Solutions (G&GS) product and product portfolio architecture. • Supports product teams to integrate technology innovation by identifying opportunities for proof-of-concept or unit development work to deploy new technologies that would support, enhance, improve or replace the product or product functions or features. • Identifies critical architecture decisions that require alignment to enterprise and Electric Power Generation and Grid Solutions (G&GS) reference architectures. • Provides guidance on architecture decisions based on enterprise guidance from reference architecture when available. • Works with domain architects and domain engineers when deeper domain knowledge is necessary to support decision making relative to the G&GS product or product portfolio. • Coaches and mentors, the product team members on product related architecture thinking • Collaborates with Electric Power Generation and Grid Solutions (G&GS) product owner(s) and to coordinate implementation of product-specific enablers. • Coordinates with enterprise architects and Electric Power Generation and Grid Solutions (G&GS) portfolio/delivery managers to prioritize development of needed enterprise enablers. • 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 domain and/or product architects to coordinate dependencies and shared capabilities across product lines.
Maintains subject matter knowledge of Electric Power Generation and Grid Solutions (G&GS) application & technology portfolio to support contextual decision making.
Works with product team to identify needed capabilities and features to enable product development.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Power Engineering, or related technical major/ discipline. • Seven (7) years of combined experience within information technology, operations, engineering, enterprise architecture, application development, and/or technical related field. • Five (5) years of hands-on product or project development activities including knowledge of standard System Development Lifecycle models, methodologies, and product standards. • Work products delivered in large enterprise systems and in a complex Electric Power Generation and Grid Solutions (G&GS) environment (e.g., system-of- systems). • Collaboration with senior management, executives, and other stakeholders to identify opportunities. • Creation of high-quality presentations, proposals, statements of work, and assessment deliverables. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to translate complex technical information and synthesize for senior executive decision-making. • In-depth understanding of complex computer network and process control designs. • Broad and in-depth technical understanding of process automation, mainstream products & vendors, and industrial field protocols that run across complex computer networks and control system platforms. • Background in safety instrumented systems for an industrial Electric Power Generation and Grid Solutions (G&GS) solution environment
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
Master's degree in computer science or related engineering field, or information management.
TOGAF certification or other enterprise architecture standards or frameworks.
PMP certification and other related program management office experience.
Electric utility business processes with an emphasis on theory of operations for Generation as well as Transmission and Distribution.
Control systems, communication networks, cybersecurity technologies, and/or Operational Technologies (OT).
Agile methodology, DevOps, and CI/CD.
Microservices-based architecture.
Ability to understand and explain electric utility single line diagrams.
Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations and contexts.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.
COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY
KaylaTek is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.