Director - Product Architecture

Job Role : - Design : Architect and design end-to-end technology solutions that meet business and product requirements, ensuring scalability, security, and high performance. - Product Development : Collaborate with product managers, developers, and designers to translate business requirements into Infra and Deployment technical specifications and deliverables. - Innovation : Introduce and implement innovative technologies and practices that enhance the product's functionality, user experience, and market competitiveness. - Technical Leadership : Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams, ensuring best practices and architectural standards are followed. - Product Roadmap : Influence the product roadmap by providing insights into technical feasibility, cost, and timeline estimates for new features and improvements. - Quality Assurance : Ensure the quality and reliability of product deliverables through code reviews, testing, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices. - Documentation : Create and maintain comprehensive Infra and Deployment architectural documentation, including design specifications, diagrams, and implementation plans. - Collaboration : Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, UX/UI, and marketing, to ensure alignment and successful product delivery. - Risk Management : Identify potential technical risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure the stability and reliability of the product. - Feedback Loop : Establish and maintain a feedback loop with end-users and stakeholders to continuously improve the product based on real-world usage and feedback. - Standards and Best Practices : Establishing Architecture standards and best practices to ensure consistency and maintainability across the organization. This includes defining naming conventions, data governance policies, and security protocols for data exchange. - Technology Evaluation : Evaluating and selecting products/third party tools that best fit the organization's needs. - Collaboration and Communication : Collaborating with business stakeholders, IT teams, and external partners to understand integration requirements and constraints. Communicating the integration strategy, architecture, and roadmap effectively to all stakeholders. - Prototyping and Proof of Concepts : Building prototypes and proof of concepts to validate integration solutions and demonstrate feasibility before full-scale implementation. This helps in identifying potential issues early in the process and refining the integration approach. - Governance and Compliance : Ensuring compliance with industry regulations, data privacy laws, and security standards in all integration activities. Implementing governance mechanisms to monitor and enforce compliance throughout the integration lifecycle. - Performance Optimization : Optimizing the performance of integrated systems by fine-tuning data flows, minimizing latency, and optimizing resource utilization. This may involve performance testing, capacity planning, and implementing caching mechanisms. - Troubleshooting and Support : Providing support for troubleshooting critical Infra and Application issues and resolving technical challenges encountered during implementation. Collaborating with development teams and vendors to address issues and implement solutions. - Continuous Improvement : Continuously evaluating and improving integration processes, technologies, and architectures to keep pace with evolving business needs and technological advancements. This involves staying updated on industry trends and emerging integration patterns. - Play a critical role in shaping the product & technical vision for the team while working closely with product, business, and technology leadership across the company on a regular basis. - Drive the product roadmap, leveraging analytics and advanced digital techniques to grow the adoption, and resulting revenue impact. - Working closely with SME's to identify how technology products can help them solve business problems while managing expectations. - Manage and engage closely with Product lead, technical lead and engineering partners from various vendor and partner organizations. Required : - Graduate in BE/BTech/MCA from a reputed University. - Masters would be an advantage. - 12 years of experience in executing and implementing enterprise software implementations and 5 years of experience as a Technical Architect/Product Architect - Strong foundational experience in product/application design, architecture and maturity specifically in Microsoft technologies, preferably Azure. - Experience implementing and supporting an enterprise-wide customer and employee enabling systems. - Strong design, Cloud Infra architecture, and problem-solving skills with knowledge and experience in building solutions. - Expertise in Hybrid cloud solutions (desirable) - Azure, GCP cloud related Infra and Deployment Architectures. - The position requires good understanding of product and change management to drive the technology modernization agenda. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills; interpersonal and collaborative skills; and the ability to communicate. - Handson experience in UI development, Microservices based architecture, database (ref:hirist.tech)

Location: chennai, IN

Posted Date: 2/7/2025