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Deloitte rating
8.1
Based on 86 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz
58th of 138 rated financial services
Job description
As a Sr. Product/Solution Architect, you will actively engage in your software architecture craft, taking a hands-on approach to multiple high-visibility projects, while also being the visionary and driving force behind our modern product technology strategy, roadmap, and implementation. Your expertise will be pivotal in delivering solutions that delight customers and users, while also driving tangible value for Deloitte's business investments. You will leverage your extensive engineering craftsmanship and expert proficiency across multiple programming languages and modern frameworks, consistently demonstrating your exemplary track record in delivering high-quality, outcome-focused solutions. The ideal candidate will be a role model and engineering mentor, collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy advanced software solutions.
Recruiting for this role ends on August 28, 2026
Work you'll do
Strategic Vision and Alignment: Craft and articulate a vision for modern product architecture as it specifically applies to the product engineering teams in alignment with the Business Strategy and US Deloitte Technology strategy, mapping business capabilities to the enterprise technology landscape. Collaborate with diverse stakeholders, including product, engineering, experience, delivery, security, and infrastructure teams across various organizational levels.
Advocacy and Technology Roadmap: Advocate for, develop, and communicate engineering group's integrated architecture/technology strategy and implementation approach to the product engineering teams and business stakeholders. Ensure the organization is well-informed about objectives, KPIs, technology roadmaps, and progress. Always have an eye on reuse and leverage of the existing technology assets to minimize overall costs.
Craft Mastery and Objectives Realization: Define, measure, and drive the achievement of KPIs and NFRs related to product architecture and engineering, including aspects such as system performance, scalability, and maintainability. Establish and evolve product architecture and engineering domain reference architecture, standards, and best practices. Actively be hands-on with design, architecture, and code part of the time, contributing to team velocity, and be actively engaged with engineers across SSDLC. Review code, drive tech debt reduction, and experiment with new technologies, driving their adoption together with engineers, inspiring them to stay current with the technology industry evolution.
Capability Evolution and Development: Being an engineering expert, mentor and develop engineers. Coach and develop skills in modern architecture and engineering practices, related to microservices, cloud-native design, containers, AI/ML/GenAI, DevSecOps, and deployment techniques like, Blue-Green, Canary to minimize down-time, enabling A/B testing approaches. Showcase learning and mastery by showcasing experiments internally, speaking at conferences, writing whitepapers or blogs, and leading R&D collaborations.
Iterative Value Delivery: Embrace an iterative and incremental approach to product architecture and engineering. Apply a leaning-forward approach to navigate complexity and uncertainty. Ensure alignment with customer and business goals through iterative steps and empirical evidence, adjusting architecture direction to meet customer needs and business viability.
Customer-Centric Problem Solving: Demonstrate a relentless focus on addressing the most critical issues faced by customers, aligning technical solutions with business objectives. Exhibit deep expertise in minimizing unnecessary technical complexities, features, and functionalities that do not add value (no "overengineering"). Drive teams toward peak performance through continuous learning and improvement.
Expert Proficiency and Continuous Improvement: Possess a keen ability to identify inefficiencies and opportunities for innovation within the product development lifecycle. Continuously enhance the product engineering operating model to be lean, adaptable, and responsive to changes, ensuring that engineering teams can deliver business value efficiently and effectively. Guide and transform the organization to embrace lean principles and foster a culture of innovation.
Tech/Quality Risk Management: Establish and evolve reference architectures, coding standards, and best architecture/engineering practices. Ensure that the product architecture designs support performance, scalability, and reliability/resilience requirements, including guidance for necessary optimizations. Identify potential technical risks and develop mitigation strategies via proactive problem-solving and contingency planning to address any issues that may arise during development.
Influential Communication: Influence, persuade, and drive decision-making processes. Communicate effectively in both written and verbal forms. Craft clear, structured arguments and technical trade-offs, supported by evidence.
Organizational Engagement and Collaboration: Engage stakeholders at all levels of the organization, from team members to middle management to executives. Build collaborative and constructive relationships, co-creating and driving momentum and value across multiple organizational levels.
The successful candidate would possess these skills:
- Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
- Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
- Ability to lead projects or workstreams
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
- Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Ability to mentor and provide clear guidance to others
The team
US Deloitte Technology Product Engineering has modernized software and product delivery, creating a scalable, cost-effective model that focuses on value/outcomes that leverages a progressive and responsive talent structure. As Deloitte's primary internal development team, Product Engineering delivers innovative digital solutions to businesses, service lines, and internal operations with proven bottom-line results and outcomes. It helps power Deloitte's success. It is the engine that drives Deloitte, serving many of the world's largest, most respected companies. We develop and deploy cutting-edge internal and go-to-market solutions that help Deloitte operate effectively and lead in the market. Our reputation is built on a tradition of delivering with excellence.
Qualifications
Required:
- A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related discipline. An advanced degree (e.g., MS) is preferred but not required. Experience is the most relevant factor.
- Excellent software engineering and product architecture/design foundation with deep understanding of Business Context Diagrams (BCD), sequence/activity/state/ER/DFD diagrams, OOP/OOD, data-structures, algorithms, code instrumentations, etc.
- 15 years proven experience with programming languages like Angular, React, NodeJS, Python, Streamlit, C#, .NET Core, Golang, SQL/NoSQL, unit testing frameworks with 8+ years' experience in architecting enterprise solutions on modern technology stacks.
- 8 years of hands-on experience with cloud-native engineering, using FaaS/PaaS/micro-services on cloud hyper-scalers like Azure, AWS, and GCP.
- 5 years of hands-on experience with Amazon cloud-native services specifically (e.g., API Gateway, MSK, SNS/SQS, Lambda, Batch, App Mesh, Istio, Step Functions, Glue, Data Pipeline, Lake Formation, Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB, EFS, S3, Athena).
- 3 years of experience with AI/ML and GenAI is preferred.
- Deep understanding of methodologies & tools like, XP, Lean, SAFe, DevSecOps, SRE, ADO, GitHub, SonarQube, etc. to deliver high quality products rapidly.
- Ability to travel 0-10%, on average, based on the work you do.
- Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
Preferred:
- Experience in Tax immigration and payroll domains
- Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, with the ability to handle diverse situations, complex projects, and changing priorities, behaving with passion, empathy
Wage Disclosure
The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $130900 to $268700.
You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
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Qualifications:
As a Sr. Product/Solution Architect, you will actively engage in your software architecture craft, taking a hands-on approach to multiple high-visibility projects, while also being the visionary and driving force behind our modern product technology strategy, roadmap, and implementation. Your expertise will be pivotal in delivering solutions that delight customers and users, while also driving tangible value for Deloitte's business investments. You will leverage your extensive engineering craftsmanship and expert proficiency across multiple programming languages and modern frameworks, consistently demonstrating your exemplary track record in delivering high-quality, outcome-focused solutions. The ideal candidate will be a role model and engineering mentor, collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy advanced software solutions.
Recruiting for this role ends on August 28, 2026
Work you'll do
Strategic Vision and Alignment: Craft and articulate a vision for modern product architecture as it specifically applies to the product engineering teams in alignment with the Business Strategy and US Deloitte Technology strategy, mapping business capabilities to the enterprise technology landscape. Collaborate with diverse stakeholders, including product, engineering, experience, delivery, security, and infrastructure teams across various organizational levels.
Advocacy and Technology Roadmap: Advocate for, develop, and communicate engineering group's integrated architecture/technology strategy and implementation approach to the product engineering teams and business stakeholders. Ensure the organization is well-informed about objectives, KPIs, technology roadmaps, and progress. Always have an eye on reuse and leverage of the existing technology assets to minimize overall costs.
Craft Mastery and Objectives Realization: Define, measure, and drive the achievement of KPIs and NFRs related to product architecture and engineering, including aspects such as system performance, scalability, and maintainability. Establish and evolve product architecture and engineering domain reference architecture, standards, and best practices. Actively be hands-on with design, architecture, and code part of the time, contributing to team velocity, and be actively engaged with engineers across SSDLC. Review code, drive tech debt reduction, and experiment with new technologies, driving their adoption together with engineers, inspiring them to stay current with the technology industry evolution.
Capability Evolution and Development: Being an engineering expert, mentor and develop engineers. Coach and develop skills in modern architecture and engineering practices, related to microservices, cloud-native design, containers, AI/ML/GenAI, DevSecOps, and deployment techniques like, Blue-Green, Canary to minimize down-time, enabling A/B testing approaches. Showcase learning and mastery by showcasing experiments internally, speaking at conferences, writing whitepapers or blogs, and leading R&D collaborations.
Iterative Value Delivery: Embrace an iterative and incremental approach to product architecture and engineering. Apply a leaning-forward approach to navigate complexity and uncertainty. Ensure alignment with customer and business goals through iterative steps and empirical evidence, adjusting architecture direction to meet customer needs and business viability.
Customer-Centric Problem Solving: Demonstrate a relentless focus on addressing the most critical issues faced by customers, aligning technical solutions with business objectives. Exhibit deep expertise in minimizing unnecessary technical complexities, features, and functionalities that do not add value (no "overengineering"). Drive teams toward peak performance through continuous learning and improvement.
Expert Proficiency and Continuous Improvement: Possess a keen ability to identify inefficiencies and opportunities for innovation within the product development lifecycle. Continuously enhance the product engineering operating model to be lean, adaptable, and responsive to changes, ensuring that engineering teams can deliver business value efficiently and effectively. Guide and transform the organization to embrace lean principles and foster a culture of innovation.
Tech/Quality Risk Management: Establish and evolve reference architectures, coding standards, and best architecture/engineering practices. Ensure that the product architecture designs support performance, scalability, and reliability/resilience requirements, including guidance for necessary optimizations. Identify potential technical risks and develop mitigation strategies via proactive problem-solving and contingency planning to address any issues that may arise during development.
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