Job Title: Web Solution Architect/Technical Product Owner

Location: US (Remote Role)

Pay rate: $40 - 45/hr

Duration: 11 Months

Experience Required 8+ years

As a Web Solutions Architect for Marketing web applications, tools and technologies, you would work with Marketing Stakeholders of GE Digital BU’s, Branding and Design Agencies to lead discovery calls, Information architecture workshops, Taxonomy definitions, develop Persona maps, User Journeys, Functional requirement gathering, translate functional use cases to technical features/stories, distilling Wireframes in to technical features/stories, make scalable architectural decisions and lead front-end and back-end application solution design, UAT sign-off and delivery, in collaboration with developers, QA Engineers and business owners.

Ideal candidate must have had consulting agency experience leading and building successful Web Applications in collaboration with multiple business units. Would spend 50% of time as a hands-on Technical Product Owner role, 40% of time on technical architecture, solution design, governance, build and delivery technical road map and remaining 10% would be focused on roadmap delivery management.

Job Description

• Work with MFG/PGOG/GRID Marketing business stakeholders, brand champions, design teams, agencies, content managers to setup workshops to collect business requirements, KPI’s, functional use cases and translate them into executable release technical features.
• Participate in UX/UI sessions, guide design agencies on Drupal CMS best practices to develop re-usable component designs, in particularly atomic designs. Design and architect Web UX/UI Components to map to Drupal CMS. Define, design and architect web component re-usable data models in Drupal.
• Coordinate and be the single point of contact for Design handoffs to Web Development team.
• Design and architect headless integrations, drive and recommend technical guidance to build a brand-new web application. Define and develop technical roadmaps with sprint cycles, estimations, and capacity planning.
• Design and solution custom frontend web applications and/or Drupal components and themes, Email templates, Salesforce Lightning components and Marketing landing pages.
• Design and build web applications that meet WAI-ARIA, SEO and Core Web Vitals with good page speed grades, that are responsive across devices and browsers.
• Provide technical consultation services across Marketing suite of tools over the business process areas of improvement.
• Define and deploy QA automation frameworks, tools, and processes across the platforms.
• Ensure that team members treat their new environment as a design pattern and embrace it in their daily routine.
• Continuously integrate and deploy releasable changes through GIT, CI/CD pipelines
• Orchestrate production releases and deployments.
• Host team meeting/sprints/huddles to triage the work assignment and track the team progress. Provide your valuable insight to help the team grow and scale.
• Evaluate new tools/technologies and support Marketing eco-system tools.
• Qualifications/Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
• 8 years of experience in Drupal CMS Architecture, Design and Development.
• 5 years of experience working on React or Angular JS, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• 5 years of technical product owner experience in translating and documenting business use cases into technical features for developers (MUST) 2 years of experience with Adobe/Google Analytics.
• 2 years of experience in converting wireframes/redlines/mockups into responsive functional web applications on various view ports.
• Experience and familiarity with Agile methodologies and tools (Rally, JIRA, CI/CD)
• Desired Characteristics: Strong communication skills in listening, writing, speaking and leadership presentations.
• Work as an individual contributor, as well as lead major backend and frontend development projects as a team with fellow developers.
• Strong desire for continuous learning to pick new tools/technologies. High attention to detail is essential with critical thinking ability.
• 4+ Years' experience of Drupal core development experience
• Must have led at least two ground-up web application development projects as a Solution Architect/Technical Product Owner. Must have experience conducting workshops with business stakeholders in North America.