The Product Architect is a project resource supporting the Security Operations Product Team (including TVM) and is one of the professionals who do the work of delivering a potentially releasable increment of the product at the end of each sprint.
Product Architect owns the end-to-end architecture for the product. He/she understands Product Owners needs and converts them into solution architecture specifications in line with overall architectural standards and roadmaps.
Key responsibilities:
- Formulates the architecture & design based on functional and non-functional requirements, balancing the goals and constraints on the solution;
- Collaborates with Domain and Enterprise Architect on the solution design to ensure it conforms to overall architectural vision and technical roadmap;
- Conducts continuous improvement analysis on existing application architectures and identifies architectural optimizations;
- Verifies the implementation—ensure the delivered system is consistent with the agreed architecture, and meet the requirements.
- Ensures consistency of the overall solution;
- Works with the Product Owner to understand, elicit, analyze, document and communicate program and platform/application requirements;
- Participates in the selection of new technologies;
- Provides guidance and coaching to other product team members on changes throughout the design process;
- Manages the quality of the solution and technical debt;
- Identifies potential bottlenecks and their underlying causes that affect the product and proposes how to resolve these;
- Maintains awareness of emerging technologies, industry trends, and architecture best practices; and evaluate them for applicability;
- Keep up with relevant developments in own functional area and ensure development, transfer and retention of knowledge. Is together with team members end-to-end responsible to deliver the value of a single Product through the entire Product life cycle;
- Deliver working product enhancements with the allocated timescale and quality standards that minimize rework and aspire a zero defect culture;
- Is self-organising with other team members. There is no separate management layer, work is planned and executed by the team;
- Is multidisciplinary – ensuring that the key competencies and expertise needed to develop, build, deploy and support the Product are embedded in the team;
- Is responsible for ensuring the overall internal standards and best practices are adhered by (i.e. Quality, Compliance);
- Is a project team member that remain assigned to the Product Team over the period of the project;
- Is a tech-savvy team member who develops products with innovative elements;
- Is willing to help other team members with removing impediments;
- Is able to reduce complexity of the work that has to be done.
Technical skills:
- Bachelor and/or Master’s degree
- Excellent communication skills (both verbal and in writing): ability to communicate well with technical and non-technical people;
- Experience in building architecture sketches and roadmaps and linking the different technologies / components related to Security operations
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience of ISMS frameworks
- Familiar with trends in SOC and TVM
- Familiar with standard architecture for SIEM infrastructure (on premise, cloud like AWS and Azure, network devices)
- Familiar with industry leading SIEM and EDR solutions (e.g Tanium, Arcsite, splunk, etc.)
- Being able to make decisions about which technologies are needed to develop the solution having in mind the product(s) vision;
- Is a team player and is able to work effectively at all levels of the product teams with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus;
Nice To Have
- Experience Tanium, Outpost24, Arcsite is a plus;
- Be able to identify and understand multiple stakeholder perspectives and "truths" and bring an open mind to understanding and build on the views of others;
- The ability to visualise and create high-level models (rigorous information-rich diagrams) that can be used in future analysis to extend and mature the business architecture; Designing and delivering Proof of Value (POV) within stipulated time
Company Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, a great working environment with room to grow and Occasional business travel .
Benefits include:
- Private Health Care
- Pension Scheme
- Holiday Allowance / Vakantiegeld
- 24 days PTO