Sia Partners is a next-generation management consulting firm. We offer a unique blend of AI and design capabilities, augmenting traditional consulting to deliver superior value to our clients. Counting 3,000 consultants in 19 countries, we expect to achieve $420 million in revenue for the current fiscal year. With a global footprint and expertise in more than 30 sectors and services, we optimize client projects worldwide. Through our Consulting for Good approach, we strive for next-level impact by developing innovative CSR solutions for our clients, making sustainability a lever for profitable transformation.

Contract roles are geared toward independent professionals interested in temporary or project-based work.

Sia Title: Project Consultant (Exempt Contractor)

Project Title:  Product Architect

Level: Mid-Senior

Project Length: This is a temporary position with an expected duration of 12 months 

Project Hours: 40 hours per week

Location: Remote

The expected compensation range for this contract is $249k to $270k per year. The exact pay rate will vary depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to skills, experience, and location.

Key Responsibilities:  One of our premier clients is seeking a Product Architect. The Product Architect provides consultative enterprise architecture services to both agile and waterfall-oriented product teams, composed of a mix of architecture, plan, deliver, and run functions within IT. 

The right candidate 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 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. 

• Responsible for understanding the context of the product or product portfolio within the organization and its competitive landscape.
• 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.
• Collaborate 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).
• Work with product team(s) to define and maintain the high-level target  product and product portfolio architecture.
• Support 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.
• Identify critical architecture decisions that require alignment to enterprise and reference architectures.
• Provide guidance on architecture decisions based on enterprise guidance from reference architecture when available.
• Work with domain architects and domain engineers when deeper domain knowledge is necessary to support decision making relative to the product or product portfolio.
• Coach and mentor, the product team members on product related architecture thinking.
• Maintain subject matter knowledge of  application & technology portfolio to support contextual decision making.
• Work with product team to identify needed capabilities and features to enable product development.
• Collaborate with product owner(s) and to coordinate implementation of product-specific enablers.
• Coordinate with enterprise architects and portfolio/delivery managers to prioritize development of needed enterprise enablers.
• Contribute principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to the MVA based on feedback and lessons learned during product development.
• Escalate product architecture decisions that are not compliant with MVA.
• Work with enterprise architects and other domain and/or product architects to coordinate dependencies and shared capabilities across product lines.

• 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 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 G&GS solution environment
• Master’s degree in computer science or related engineering field, or information management preferred.
• TOGAF certification or other enterprise architecture standards or frameworks preferred.
• PMP certification and other related program management office experience preferred.
• Electric utility business processes with an emphasis on theory of operations for Generation as well as Transmission and Distribution preferred.
• Control systems, communication networks, cybersecurity technologies, and/or Operational Technologies (OT) preferred.
• Agile methodology, DevOps, and CI/CD preferred.
• Microservices-based architecture preferred.
• Ability to understand and explain electric utility single line diagrams preferred.
• Ability to understand the long-term (“big picture”) and short-term perspectives of situations and contexts.

At this time, Sia Partners does not intend to pursue employment with applicants who will require now or in the future visa sponsorship by our company for work authorization in the United States (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa, or any other non-immigrant status).

Project Consultant Benefits

• Statutory Time Off – Sick ​
• Medical, Dental, Vision: Eligible for Purchase Option
• 401(k) Participation: Eligible after one month of employment with matching and 100% vesting first day of participation  

Our Commitment to Diversity

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) are part of Sia Partners’ DNA. Thanks to our expertise in several sectors and our international growth, our teams include a variety of experiences and cultures. We’re confident that promoting DEIB creates an environment in which everyone can reach their full potential.

Our global network, DEIB@Sia Partners, brings together our people worldwide to facilitate local and global progress, focused on the following areas:

• Gender equality (global Gender Equality Index score of 91/100 for FY19-20)
• LGBTQ+
• Race & Ethnicity
• Working Parents
• Disabilities

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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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.