Associate Vice President - Sr. Product/Solution Architect

Associate Vice President - Sr. Product/Solution Architect

Role Overview:As a Sr. Product/Solution Architect, you will actively engage in your software architecture craft, taking a hands-on approach to multiple high-visibility projects, while also being the visionary and driving force behind our modern product technology strategy, roadmap, and implementation. Your expertise will be pivotal in delivering solutions that delight customers and users, while also driving tangible value for Deloitte's business investments. You will leverage your extensive engineering craftsmanship and expert proficiency across multiple programming languages and modern frameworks, consistently demonstrating your exemplary track record in delivering high-quality, outcome-focused solutions. The ideal candidate will be a role model and engineering mentor, collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy advanced software solutions. 

Key Responsibilities: 

Strategic Vision and Alignment: Craft and articulate a vision for modern product architecture as it specifically applies to the product engineering teams in alignment with the Business Strategy and US Deloitte Technology strategy, mapping business capabilities to the enterprise technology landscape. Collaborate with diverse stakeholders, including product, engineering, experience, delivery, security, and infrastructure teams across various organizational levels. 

Advocacy and Technology Roadmap: Advocate for, develop, and communicate engineering groups integrated architecture/technology strategy and implementation approach to the product engineering teams and business stakeholders. Ensure the organization is well-informed about objectives, KPIs, technology roadmaps, and progress. Always have an eye on reuse and leverage of the existing technology assets to minimize overall costs.  

Craft Mastery and Objectives Realization: Define, measure, and drive the achievement of KPIs and NFRs related to product architecture and engineering, including aspects such as system performance, scalability, and maintainability. Establish and evolve product architecture and engineering domain reference architecture, standards, and best practices. Actively be hands-on with design, architecture, and code part of the time, contributing to team velocity, and be actively engaged with engineers across SSDLC. Review code, drive tech debt reduction, and experiment with new technologies, driving their adoption together with engineers, inspiring them to stay current with the technology industry evolution. 

Capability Evolution and Development: Being an engineering expert, mentor and develop engineers. Coach and develop skills in modern architecture and engineering practices, related to microservices, cloud-native design, containers, AI/ML/GenAI, DevSecOps, and deployment techniques like, Blue-Green, Canary to minimize down-time, enabling A/B testing approaches. Showcase learning and mastery by showcasing experiments internally, speaking at conferences, writing whitepapers or blogs, and leading R&D collaborations. 

Iterative Value Delivery: Embrace an iterative and incremental approach to product architecture and engineering. Apply a leaning-forward approach to navigate complexity and uncertainty. Ensure alignment with customer and business goals through iterative steps and empirical evidence, adjusting architecture direction to meet customer needs and business viability. 

Customer-Centric Problem Solving: Demonstrate a relentless focus on addressing the most critical issues faced by customers, aligning technical solutions with business objectives. Exhibit deep expertise in minimizing unnecessary technical complexities, features, and functionalities that do not add value (no overengineering). Drive teams toward peak performance through continuous learning and improvement. 

Expert Proficiency and Continuous Improvement: Possess a keen ability to identify inefficiencies and opportunities for innovation within the product development lifecycle. Continuously enhance the product engineering operating model to be lean, adaptable, and responsive to changes, ensuring that engineering teams can deliver business value efficiently and effectively. Guide and transform the organization to embrace lean principles and foster a culture of innovation.

About Company

Deloitte is a global professional services firm that provides a wide range of services, including audit and assurance, consulting, tax, risk management, and financial advisory. With a presence in over 150 countries and a network of member firms, Deloitte serves clients across various industries, helping them solve complex business challenges, improve operations, and innovate. Known for its expertise in management consulting, technology solutions, and strategy, Deloitte is one of the Big Four accounting firms and is recognized for its commitment to quality, integrity, and making an impact in the marketplace.