Portfolio Architect- Contract- (12 Months)

Job Description

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

Sia Title : Project Consultant (Exempt Contractor)

Project Title : Portfolio 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 Portfolio Architect. The Portfolio Architect is responsible for end-to-end architecture including the 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.