Reflexive Concepts is seeking a skilled Product Convergence Architect to join our team!
Specifically, we are looking for an experienced Technical Lead to oversee and guide the unification of two existing product teams into a consolidated, efficient, and cloud-aligned capability. The selected candidate will work closely with the technical leads from both product teams to evaluate current architectures, workflows, and areas of technical debt. They will develop a comprehensive integration and modernization plan that outlines risks, dependencies, opportunities for efficiency, architectural recommendations, and a phased implementation approach for leadership approval.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic Consolidation & Planning:
- Assess the current state of two separate product teams (processes, technologies, staffing model, architectures, backlogs).
- Develop a comprehensive Consolidation Plan including:
- Overlap analysis and areas for unification
- Technical modernization opportunities
- Efficiency and cost-saving projections
- Organizational, operational, and architectural risks
- Roadmap milestones for unifying teams and platforms
- Present findings, risks, and recommended path forward to leadership and customer stakeholders.
- Technical Engineering & AWS Development:
- Provide hands-on development and solutioning within an AWS environment, aligned with best practices for scalability, resiliency, and security.
- Support and advise on application modernization opportunities, including containerization strategies and cloud-native re-architecture.
- Define integration patterns, APIs, and shared service approaches to support a consolidated product ecosystem.
- Vendor Engagement & COTS Integration (Feith):
- Coordinate with Feith (vendor) to understand their roadmap, containerization efforts, and expectations for platform readiness.
- Evaluate Feith’s containerized product capabilities and determine readiness for integration into the consolidated platform.
- Translate vendor capabilities into customer-centric recommendations and impact assessments.
- Present technical recommendations and integration strategies to customer leadership.
- Team & Customer Coordination
- Work directly with both product teams to align processes, define unified technical standards, and reduce redundancy.
- Facilitate communication across teams, ensuring smooth adoption of consolidation roadmap.
- Support Agile ceremonies and help refine backlogs to reflect unified team priorities.
- Provide clear status updates, risk reporting, and milestone tracking to leadership.
Qualifications:
- Twelve (12) years of experience in software development/engineering
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science or related discipline. Four (4) years of additional software development experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
- Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science or related discipline can substitute for Two (2) years of experience.
Required:
- Ability to analyze customer requirements, identify system improvements, and effectively troubleshoot issues to enhance application performance and user experience.
- Experience with AWS
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to engage with customers, understand their needs, and provide timely and effective support, ensuring high levels of satisfaction.
- General understanding of Microsoft environments and enterprise collaboration tools
- Experience with FEITH Records Management System or other COTS products.
- Development or scripting experience to support system configuration or automation tasks.
- Technical awareness and problem-solving ability related to system integration and configuration.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to onboard and train users on a new system.
- Experience supporting or working with commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products or integrations.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating with developers and product support teams.
- Must be able to work during core hours of Monday-Friday 10am-2pm. Exceptions will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Desired:
- Experience supporting enterprise rollouts and managing stakeholder expectations.
- Previous experience consolidating teams or systems across enterprise programs.
- Experience orchestrating vendor engagements and evaluating vendor technical roadmaps.
- Understanding of document/content management solutions (Feith, etc.) even if not the focus of the role.