Portfolio Architect

3 hours ago

Houston, Texas, United States Sia Partners Full time
Job Description

Sia Partners, a next-generation management consulting firm, is seeking a skilled Portfolio Architect to join their team. As a Portfolio Architect, you will be responsible for end-to-end architecture, including associated products and services, working under the guidance of Architects and their Solution Architects.

This role will carry out important functional activities across the portfolio to support developing high-value products and services and ensure all architecture is developed in alignment with the client's architecture principles, guidelines, and industry best practices.

  • Oversight for the integration and interoperability of the solutions, and identification of gaps and risks in solution completeness and minimal technical debt introduced.
  • Create conceptual solution architectures (Architecture Vision Definition or AVDs) that adhere to architectural standards and architecture roadmap.
  • Provide oversight to Project Architects during development of logical solution architectures including Solution Architecture Documents (SADs).
  • Collaborate with the product owner, manager, and other product-oriented key stakeholders to define/evolve value streams, value stages, business capability mapping, functional/process decomposition, and all associated elements.
  • Ensure new product lines and value streams are developed and implemented in a way that aligns with the organization's overall business needs.
  • Work with the product team to identify the needed capabilities by doing business capability maturity modeling and associated gap analysis.
  • Engage in supplier selection activities and sourcing processes to ensure that the selected supplier(s) and products and/or services would be a sound investment in the long term.
  • Define the needed functional and technical feature sets based on the capability gap analysis.
  • Identify and document the mitigations for architecture-related gaps and risks.
  • Conduct the maintenance and enrichment of baseline architecture across the portfolios of applications/solutions.
  • Partner with senior IT staff and management and acts as an advisor to strategic planning efforts.
  • Drive intelligent investment in applications, infrastructure, and integration designs to ensure full value is realized over the solution lifecycle.
  • Coordinate and support the development of solution architecture deliverables and approaches and enforce overall Enterprise Architecture (EA) solution patterns.
  • Collaborate with information and integration architects and other solution architects to ensure alignment with data and infrastructure domains.
  • Provide architecture services and guidance on architecture decisions to both agile product teams and traditional development teams.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical major/discipline.
  • Five (5) years of electric utility industry knowledge with large system implementation experience.
  • Fifteen (15) years of experience in architecture, design, and/or engineering in IT systems.
  • Ten (10) years combined experience with operations, software engineering, and application development with complex enterprise systems in a systems-of-systems environment.
  • Five (5) years of hands-on product development activities including software engineering, application development, knowledge of System Development Lifecycle models, methodologies, and coding standards.
  • Five (5) years of enterprise architecture development including strategic technology planning and integration activities with complex information systems.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to translate complex technical information and synthesize for senior executive decision-making.
  • Overall understanding of IT network-intensive applications and Process Automation for transmission, distribution, and generation assets.
  • Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical major/discipline preferred.
  • Certified in The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) or other enterprise architecture standards or frameworks preferred.
  • Electric utility business processes emphasize transmission, distribution, and generation engineering and operations preferred.
  • Solid understanding of Control systems, communication networks, cybersecurity solutions, and/or operational technologies (OT) preferred.
  • Agile methodology, DevOps, and CI/CD preferred.
  • Microservices-based architecture designs preferred.
  • Service-Bus oriented strategies and design patterns preferred.

Additional Information:

Sia Partners is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, remuneration, or discipline, are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs.

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