Lead Product Architect - HSO Studio
Location: Remote
Role overview
The (Lead) Product Architect is an inward-facing technical product role responsible for translating business requirements into scalable, high-quality technical solutions across multiple products within a domain. This position ensures product architecture, delivery, releases, and cross-product dependencies are aligned and effectively coordinated.
You will safeguard the functional and technical feasibility, integrity, and quality of the product scope, while supporting domain-level alignment and enabling development teams to deliver against the strategic product roadmap.
Key responsibilities
Define Product Architecture
- Partner with the Product Manager to understand the product vision, strategy, customer and market needs, and roadmap.
- Contribute to the product vision and roadmap based on deep functional and technical expertise, product feedback, and emerging technology insights.
- Document functional and technical requirements, solution designs, architectural principles, and technical decisions.
- Validate technical feasibility, performance impact, scalability, and product integrity together with the lead developer.
- Align technical design with user experience, persona-based user stories, business requirements, and the overall product strategy.
- Ensure desired features are designed as part of a cohesive, scalable, and functional product.
- Work with the product team to apply Studio’s newly defined AI technology, processes, and ways of working
Oversee Product Development & Support
- Own and manage the product backlog, translating prioritised roadmap initiatives into epics and actionable work items.
- Work with development teams to design, build, test, and release products against the prioritised backlog and defined architecture.
- Facilitate development team ceremonies, support delivery cadence, and track progress against agreed work items and release schedules.
- Ensure the development team has a clear understanding of objectives, customer-driven requirements, and expected outcomes.
- Coordinate the product development lifecycle to ensure timely delivery and high-quality implementation.
- Manage implementation quality, testing outcomes, documentation, release notes, and complex Level 4 support topics.
Align Cross-Product Architecture (Lead)
- Maintain an overview of all products within the domain and ensure architectural consistency across patterns, integrations, and technical decisions.
- Identify cross-product dependencies, assess the impact of new features, and mitigate architectural risks across the domain.
Coordinate Domain Releases (Lead)
- Coordinate domain-level release planning, aligning scope, dependencies, timelines, and release practices across products.
- Support predictable delivery by proactively identifying and resolving cross-product risks and blockers.
Facilitate Product Architect Alignment (Lead)
- Facilitate alignment between Product Architects, clarify ownership and responsibilities, and support decision-making on complex topics.
- Act as a trusted sparring partner for complex functional and technical matters across the domain.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- Relevant experience as a Product Architect, Solution Architect, or similar role within a product development environment.
- Strong knowledge of the Microsoft technology stack, including Azure, Dynamics 365, and Power Platform.
- Understanding of modern product discovery and delivery methods, including user-experience-focused product design frameworks.
- Strong business and technical acumen, with the ability to translate business requirements into functional designs and technical specifications.
- Experience managing product lifecycles, backlogs, work plans, releases, and prioritised support requests.
- Strong collaboration, stakeholder management, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to align architecture, dependencies, release planning, and risks across multiple products within a domain.
- Curious and proactive in exploring AI and modern technologies, with a strong continuous learning mindset and the ability to translate technological developments into business value.
What we offer
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- The opportunity to shape product development at the forefront of Microsoft innovation, building technology products that drive business transformation.
- Opportunity to work with a talented and dynamic global team
- Professional growth and development opportunities
