Sierra Nevada Corporation

The Product Architect at SNC provides consultative enterprise architecture services to align product teams. Assigned to support one or more product teams, the Product Architect offers a broad range of services, from supporting product strategy to guiding individual architecture decisions. This role requires a comprehensive understanding of various architecture domains (business, information, application, technology, etc.) and the ability to apply these concepts to meet the specific needs of the product teams while adhering to the enterprise architecture principles. The Data and AI Product Architect specifically supports product teams in order to drive the advancement of the enterprise’s data and AI posture.

With a specialization in advanced information management practices, the Data and AI Product Architect partners with the product manager and stakeholders to navigate the information landscape in order to ensure optimal data and AI technical investments. Investments that support a balance between supporting business goals and protection of the quality, integrity and exposure of the enterprise’s information assets. They facilitate distributed architecture decision-making, help identify and resolve technical roadblocks, and coordinate with delivery teams to ensure business value delivery.

As SNC's corporate team, we provide the company and its business areas with strategic direction and business support spanning executive management, finance and accounting, operations, human resources, legal, IT, information security, facilities, marketing, and communications.

Responsibilities:

Define Product Strategy and High-Level Design:

• Understand the context of the supported product or product portfolio within the organization and its competitive landscape.
• Collaborate with group and business architects to align enterprise information assets with business architecture artifacts.
• Work with product stakeholders to create a product strategy, identify investments, and develop roadmaps that align with business goals and minimum viable architecture (MVA).
• Define and maintain the high-level target product and portfolio architecture.
• Support technology innovation by identifying opportunities for proof-of-concept work.

Support Architecture Decision Making:

• Identify data and AI architecture decisions to be made with product teams.
• Provide guidance on critical architecture decisions based on enterprise reference architecture.
• Collaborate with domain architects for deeper domain knowledge.
• Coach and mentor product team members on architecture thinking.
• Stay updated with current enterprise guidance and maintain knowledge of the enterprise application and technology portfolio.
• Collaborate with other architect roles supporting product management

Manage the Architectural Runway:

• Identify needed capabilities and features to enable product utilization of enterprise information assets and incorporating advance analytics and AI capabilities.
• Coordinate the implementation of product-specific enablers with product owners and managers.
• Prioritize development of needed enterprise enablers with enterprise architects and portfolio managers.
• Assist with the evaluation of emerging technologies.

Support and Coordinate Enterprise Architecture Practices Across Product Lines:

• Serve as a member of the architecture community of practice.
• Contribute to principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to the MVA based on feedback from product development.
• Escalate non-compliant product architecture decisions.
• Coordinate dependencies and shared capabilities across product lines with other architects.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field with at least 14 or more years of relevant experience
  • Higher education may substitute for relevant experience
  • Relevant experience may be considered in lieu of required education
• Experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management, or cloud development
• Extensive experience with enterprise architecture, capability planning, and alignment of IT to corporate and BU strategy
• Strong experience with drafting reference architecture
• Experience designing, developing, and integrating applications
• Vendor management experience

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Experience in Agile development methodology and processes
• Experience in architecting enterprise systems such as PLM, MES, CRM, and ERP
• Conceptualizing and developing abstract representations
• Proficiency in data modeling, database design (SQL and NoSQL), and data warehousing.
• Experience with data lakes and ETL
• Hands on experience with technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and Cassandra.
• Proficiency in data visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI.
• Knowledge of machine learning algorithms and frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch)
• Experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP), computer vision, and Reinforcement learning.
• Knowledge of cloud architecture and services (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
• Knowledge of back-end development languages (e.g., Java, Go, Python).
• Knowledge of database technologies (e.g., MySQL, MongoDB, Oracle).
• Knowledge of front-end web development languages (e.g., JavaScript, HTML, CSS).
• Understanding of technology architecture aspects (integration, network, security).
• Knowledge of information principles and processes

Estimated Starting Salary Range: $189,761.74 - $260,922.39. Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors, such as candidates' key skills, relevant work experience, and education/training/certifications. The disclosed range estimate may be adjusted for any applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled.

SNC offers annual incentive pay based upon performance that is commensurate with the level of the position.

SNC offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 401(k) with 150% match up to 6%, life insurance, 3 weeks paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and more.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

To conform to U.S. Government international trade regulations, applicant must be a U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State or U.S. Department of Commerce.

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SNC is a global leader in aerospace and national security committed to moving the American Dream forward. We’re known and respected for our mission and execution focus, agility, and disruptive and rapid innovation. We provide leading edge technologies and transformative solutions that support our nation’s most critical security needs. If you are mission-focused, thrive in collaborative environments, and want to make our country stronger with state-of-the-art technologies that safeguard freedom, join our team!

SNC is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to an environment free of discrimination. Employment decisions are made based on merit without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran or other characteristics protected by law.