Role title: Connectivity Product Architect - Cloud/Internet/IPVPN/Ethernet
Contract Duration: Contract for 3-6 months, Inside IR35
Location: London onsite 2 days a week, 3 days working from home
SC: Candidate should be Sc eligible

As a Product Architect you will translate new product capabilities and features into a high-level solution that spans the end-to-end product scope: including service experience, customer interfaces and development requirements.

This role will have the following responsibilities:
* Product architecture deliverables for underlay product features
* Contribute to agile product backlog EPIC's, capabilities and features ensuring adequate acceptance criteria
* Document solution options as part of the Technical Product Feasibility
* Document the selected solution as part of the Product high-level design
* Review solution context and low-level specification for OSS/BSS platform changes
* Manage third party deliverables ensuring clear terms of reference and statements of work
* Ensure project expenditure is in line with budgetary commitments
* Work in a large-scale virtual team to determine product and service building blocks and how they interact with each other
* Provide technical leadership with the virtual team and facilitate seamless integration between solution building blocks
* Engage with operational and support functions to collect and discuss requirements and solutions
* Present solution to technical and not technical audience and run know-how transfer sessions
* Endeavour to be a pro-active team player, capable to be part of a high-performance team, capable to deal with multiple workloads and prioritizing the most relevant activities

Key accountabilities and decision ownership
[max 5]:
- Ensure accurate end to end technical and service specification and delivery of new Product Features in line with budget, time and quality
- Capture and Manage all requirements and ensure they are translated into a logical incremental delivery plan (including MVP) and in line with Sage Agile Principles and Governance model
- Ensure accurate OSS/BSS integration for new Product Features
- Review key product documentation from internal stakeholders and external suppliers, including backlog, HLD's, Low Level designs
- Manage End to End, Design Oriented, Risk Assumptions Information Dependencies/Decisions (RAID) logbook during Product Delivery Lifecycle Must have technical/professional qualifications:
- Relevant higher education in a related field (computer science/networking field)
- Knowledge and understanding of the Fixed Connectivity and particularly Metro Ethernet Forum products
- OSS/BSS integration experience
- Service Design knowledge
- Safe Agile Awareness or even better Certified

Nice to Have:
- Previous experience in JIRA tool in the context of requirements and management and RAID log management
- Previous Experience in Atlassian Confluence tool

Key performance indicators [max 3]:
- Agreed scope delivered within budget, time and quality
- Manage risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies which may arise as part of the product solution
- Ensure all agreed collaterals for the project are produced and reviewed to the required
standard Direct reports: NA
Dotted reports: None

Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 10 weeks. LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.

Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.