Sia Partners is a next-generation management consulting firm. We offer a unique blend of AI and design capabilities, augmenting traditional consulting to deliver superior value to our clients. Counting 3,000 consultants in 19 countries, we expect to achieve $420 million in revenue for the current fiscal year. With a global footprint and expertise in more than 30 sectors and services, we optimize client projects worldwide. Through our Consulting for Good approach, we strive for next-level impact by developing innovative CSR solutions for our clients, making sustainability a lever for profitable transformation.

Contract roles are geared toward independent professionals interested in temporary or project-based work.

Sia Title: Project Consultant (Exempt Contractor)

Project Title: Portfolio Architect

Level: Mid-Senior 

Project Length: This is a temporary position with an expected duration of 12 months 

Project Hours:40 hours per week 

Location: Remote

The expected compensation range for this contract is $249k to $270k per year. The exact pay rate will vary depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to skills, experience, and location.

Key Responsibilities: One of our premier clients is seeking a Portfolio Architect. The Portfolio Architect is responsible for end-to-end architecture including the associated products and services working under the guidance of Architects and their Solution Architects. This role will carry out important functional activities across the portfolio to support developing high-value products and services and ensure all architecture is developed in alignment with the client's architecture principles, guidelines, and industry best practices.

• Oversight for the integration and interoperability of the solutions, and identification of gaps and risks in solution completeness and minimal technical debt introduced.
• Create conceptual solution architectures (Architecture Vision Definition or AVDs) that adhere to architectural standards and architecture roadmap.
• Provide oversight to Project Architects during development of logical solution architectures including Solution Architecture Documents (SADs).
• Collaborate with the product owner, manager, and other product oriented key stakeholders to define/evolve value streams, value stages, business capability mapping, functional/process decomposition, and all associated elements.
• Ensure new product lines and value streams are developed and implemented in a way that aligns with the organization's overall business needs.
• Work with the product team to identify the needed capabilities by doing business capability maturity modeling and associated gap analysis.
• Engage in supplier selection activities and sourcing processes to ensure that the selected supplier(s) and products and/or services would be a sound investment in the long term.
• Define the needed functional and technical feature sets based on the capability gap analysis.
• Identify and document the mitigations for architecture-related gaps and risks.
• Conduct the maintenance and enrichment of baseline architecture across the portfolios of applications/solutions.
• Partner with senior IT staff and management and acts as an advisor to strategic planning efforts.
• Drive intelligent investment in applications, infrastructure, and integration designs to ensure full value is realized over the solution lifecycle.
• Coordinate and support the development of solution architecture deliverables and approaches and enforce overall Enterprise Architecture (EA) solution patterns.
• Collaborate with information and integration architects and other solution architects to ensure alignment with data and infrastructure domains
• Provide architecture services and guidance on architecture decisions to both agile product teams and traditional development teams.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical major/ discipline.
• Five (5) years of electric utility industry knowledge with large system implementation experience.
• Fifteen (15) years of experience in architecture, design and/or engineering in IT systems
• Ten (10) years combined experience with operations, software engineering, and application development with complex enterprise systems in a systems-of-systems environment.
• Five (5) years of hands-on product development activities including software engineering, application development, knowledge of System Development Lifecycle models, methodologies, and coding standards.
• Five (5) years of enterprise architecture development including strategic technology planning and integration activities with complex information systems.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to translate complex technical information and synthesize for senior executive decision-making.
• Overall understanding of IT network intensive applications and Process Automation for transmission, distribution, and generation assets
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical major/discipline preferred.
•  Certified in The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) or other enterprise architecture standards or frameworks preferred.
• Electric utility business processes emphasize transmission, distribution, and generation engineering and operations preferred.
• Solid understanding of Control systems, communication networks, cybersecurity solutions, and/or operational technologies (OT) preferred.
• Agile methodology, DevOps, and CI/CD preferred.
• Microservices-based architecture designs preferred.
• Service-Bus oriented strategies and design patterns preferred.

At this time, Sia Partners does not intend to pursue employment with applicants who will require now or in the future visa sponsorship by our company for work authorization in the United States (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa, or any other non-immigrant status).

Project Consultant Benefits

• Statutory Time Off – Sick ​
• Medical, Dental, Vision: Eligible for Purchase Option
• 401(k) Participation: Eligible after one month of employment with matching and 100% vesting first day of participation  

Our Commitment to Diversity

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) are part of Sia Partners’ DNA. Thanks to our expertise in several sectors and our international growth, our teams include a variety of experiences and cultures. We’re confident that promoting DEIB creates an environment in which everyone can reach their full potential.

Our global network, DEIB@Sia Partners, brings together our people worldwide to facilitate local and global progress, focused on the following areas:

• Gender equality (global Gender Equality Index score of 91/100 for FY19-20)
• LGBTQ+
• Race & Ethnicity
• Working Parents
• Disabilities

Sia Partners is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, remuneration, or discipline, are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs.

To learn more about our mission, values, and business sectors, please visit our website.

Sia Partners is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, remuneration, or discipline, are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs.