Product Architect - Alpharetta, United States - UST

Description

Who we are:

Born digital, UST transforms lives through the power of technology. We walk alongside our clients and partners, embedding innovation and agility into everything they do. We help them create transformative experiences and human-centered solutions for a better world.

UST is a mission-driven group of over 39,000+ practical problem solvers and creative thinkers in over 30+ countries. Our entrepreneurial teams are empowered to innovate, act nimbly, and create a lasting and sustainable impact for our clients, their customers, and the communities in which we live.

With us, you'll create a boundless impact that transforms your career—and the lives of people across the world.

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You are:

A Product Architect supporting our Product Engineering Services Practice who will lead the team of product architecture professionals to deliver desired services and service levels, and set the technology vision for the organization.

You will:

· Implement the technology vision across the multiple products/initiatives

· Ensure execution plans are aligned with business goals

· Define the future platform/architecture state and create principles and standards to get there

· Enable the research and evaluation of new technology and new architecture/software designs

· Keep abreast with the latest trends and knowledge within technology space and deliver delightful user experience

· Drive technological innovation enabling technology refreshes and selection of alternative technologies leveraging changing usage and trends in the industry

· In collaboration with leadership and the business, define and refine standards processes and practices with regards to technology

· Drive the adoption of the Architecture standards across the organization

· Collaborate with technology leadership across the enterprise to build partnerships in design

· Ensure identification analysis and resolution of systemic technical issues

· Ensure that the Product Architecture team directions are in alignment with organizational business goals and expectations

· Lead creation and delivery of proof-of-concept near production-ready code prototypes demonstrating new technologies or design patterns to other technology teams

· Leverage technical experience to mentor and coach team members; build next layer of Product Architecture leadership to attract and retain the best technology talent

· Participate in and lead cross-company technology initiatives

· Enable team collaboration working with cross-functional teams – demonstrated by working effectively with global /distributed teams building global applications

· Enable efficient employment and recruitment activities provide coaching and guidance to a team of Product Architecture professionals and promote staff training and development.

You Will Need:

• The ability to strategize and execute collaboratively with engineering design and user research teams and business stakeholders

· Thought leadership and architectural advocacy in building software applications

• The Ability to partner with product managers product designers and engineering to balance technical business and customer requirements while applying a user-centric design approach
• Strong creative and problem-solving skills learning capabilities and decision-making ability
• Capability to understand functional and non-functional requirements from the given specifications to build applications
• Sound technical knowledge in building highly scalable/available enterprise applications which cut across multiple solution design and architecture.
• Demonstrable architecture/technical acumen in leading multi-disciplinary teams to achieve goals
• An intense interest in innovation and new solutions within the identity industry and ability to comprehend their likely impact
• Decision making ability to meet product and customer requirements that shapes the product roadmaps.
• Demonstrated ability to deal with ambiguous business problems quickly learn new business domains and synthesize the situation applying Systems Thinking
• Detail oriented, self-directed self-motivated with a strong capacity for working successfully and flexibly with people at all levels in an organization
• Good communications skills and the ability to communicate architecture and software design proposals to a variety of internal and external stakeholder groups
• Ability to clearly articulate architecture and software design decisions through immersive techniques and mediums

· Experience in working with multiple programming languages database engines web/mobile technologies software and tools

· Experience in strategizing and executing collaboratively with engineering design and user research teams and business stakeholders

· Extensive experience in applying architecture/software design principles patterns methods and tools

· Excellent knowledge of software development/testing methodologies along with change and configuration management practices in Linux based environments

· Strong working knowledge of delivering projects from end-to-end: problem statement and conceptualization proof-of-concept and participation in final deployment

· Expertise in building cloud native enterprise applications

· Sound working knowledge of building product on Cloud environment (AWS Azure GCP) exposure to application development using containerized environment (Docker Kubernetes Mesos)

· Good knowledge in Data Modelling and Data Management Strategies for different data domains (In-Memory RDBMS MPP and NoSQL) utilizing current and next generation technologies to meet evolving business needs

· Managing and delivering architecture/software design needs of multiple large-scale initiative/product development teams

· Demonstrated thought leadership and architecture/software design advocacy in the Product Architecture of software applications

· Expertise in full spectrum of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM/SDLC) process techniques and methodologies

· Experience in envisioning and designing for Products /platforms at user-focused technology companies

· Expertise in defining guidelines standards and best practices

· Excellent communication presentation and organizational skills with attention to detail

Bonus points if:

• You have the curiosity to learn more about new business domains and Technology Innovation

Compensation can differ depending on factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, education, and level of experience. As required by local law, UST provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, New York City, or Washington as set forth below.

Role Location: Remote; ideally Alpharetta, GA

Compensation Range: $102,000 to $153,000.

What we believe:

We're proud to embrace the same values that have shaped UST since the beginning. Since day one, we've been building enduring relationships and a culture of integrity. And today, it's those same values that are inspiring us to encourage innovation from everyone, to champion diversity and inclusion, and to place people at the center of everything we do.

Humility:

We will listen, learn, be empathetic and help selflessly in our interactions with everyone.

Humanity:

Through business, we will better the lives of those less fortunate than ourselves.

Integrity:

We honor our commitments and act with responsibility in all our relationships.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

UST is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

UST reserves the right to periodically redefine your roles and responsibilities based on the requirements of the organization and/or your performance.