Lead Architect

Role Overview

The ideal candidate will be a Product Architect who will take a hands-on approach to multiple high-visibility projects, delivering solutions that delight customers and users while driving tangible value for Deloitte's business investments.

Outcome-Driven Accountability

• Embrace and drive a culture of accountability for customer and business outcomes.
• Develop engineering solutions that solve complex problems with valuable outcomes, ensuring high-quality, lean designs and implementations.

Technical Leadership and Advocacy

• Serve as the technical advocate for products, ensuring architectural integrity, feasibility, and alignment with business and customer goals.
• Be responsible for product architecture blueprints, high-level architecture designs, and integration architecture into the technical landscape and technology stack.

Engineering Craftsmanship

• Possess passion and experience as an individual contributor, responsible for the engineering designs and technical feasibility of solutions.
• Actively engage with engineers to ensure architecture is understood and can be implemented.
• Review code, actively drive technology debt reduction, and help drive engineering quality.

Customer-Centric Engineering

• Develop lean engineering solutions through rapid, inexpensive experimentation to solve customer needs.
• Engage with customers and product teams to deliver the right architectural solution for the product in the right way at the right time.

Incremental and Iterative Delivery

• Exhibit a mindset that favors action and evidence over extensive planning.
• Utilize a leaning-forward approach to navigate complexity and uncertainty, delivering lean, supportable, and maintainable solutions.

Cross-Functional Collaboration and Integration

• Work collaboratively with empowered, cross-functional teams including product management, experience, delivery, infrastructure, and security.
• Integrate diverse perspectives to make well-informed decisions that balance feasibility, viability, usability, and value.
• Foster a collaborative environment that enhances team synergy and innovation.

Advanced Technical Proficiency

• Possess deep expertise in modern software engineering practices and principles, including OOD/OOP, Agile methodologies, DevSecOps, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment, deployment techniques like Blue-Green, Canary to minimize downtime and enable A/B testing approaches.
• Leverage these techniques to optimize solutioning and product delivery, ensuring high-quality outcomes with minimal waste.

Domain Expertise

• Quickly acquire domain-specific knowledge relevant to the business or product.
• Translate business/user needs and UX/UI designs into technical requirements and designs.
• Navigate various enterprise functions such as business and enabling areas as well as product, experience, delivery, infrastructure, and security to drive product value and feasibility as well as alignment with organizational goals.

Effective Communication and Influence

• Exhibit exceptional communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical concepts clearly and compellingly.
• Inspire and influence stakeholders at all levels through well-structured arguments and trade-offs supported by evidence, evaluations, and research.
• Create coherent narratives that align technical solutions with business objectives.

Engagement and Collaborative Co-Creation

• Engage and collaborate with stakeholders at all organizational levels, from team members to senior executives.
• Build and maintain constructive relationships, fostering a culture of co-creation and shared momentum towards achieving product goals.
• Align diverse perspectives and drive consensus to create feasible solutions.

The Team

US Deloitte Technology Product Engineering has modernized software and product delivery, creating a scalable, cost-effective model that focuses on value/outcomes that leverages a progressive and responsive talent structure. As Deloitte's primary internal development team, Product Engineering delivers innovative digital solutions to businesses, service lines, and internal operations with proven bottom-line results and outcomes. It helps power Deloitte's success. It is the engine that drives Deloitte, serving many of the world's largest, most respected companies. We develop and deploy cutting-edge internal and go-to-market solutions that help Deloitte operate effectively and lead in the market. Our reputation is built on a tradition of delivering with excellence.

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience is the most relevant factor.
• 6 years of experience with multiple programming languages such as Angular, React, NodeJS, Python, Streamlit, C#, .NET Core, Golang, SQL/NoSQL, as well as unit testing frameworks.
• 5 years of experience in designing and architecting enterprise solutions.
• 5 years of hands-on experience with cloud-native engineering, using FaaS, PaaS, and micro-services on cloud hyperscalers such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• 1 year of experience with AI/ML and GenAI.
• Prior software engineering experience with the understanding of Business Context Diagrams (BCD), sequence/activity/state/entity relationship/data flow diagrams, OOP/OOD, data structures, algorithms, and code instrumentations.
• Prior experience using methodologies & tools such as XP, Lean, SAFe, DevSecOps, SRE, ADO, GitHub, SonarQube, etc. to deliver high-quality products rapidly.
• Ability to travel 10%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
• May also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.