Microsoft

Frontier Portfolio Architect

  • United States
  • On-site
  • Full-time

Posted

About the role

Build and curate a portfolio of repeatable offers aligned to market need, industry requirements, functional use cases, and the patterns emerging across customer deliveries and pursuits. Maintain a clear view of the market and competitive landscape, and position the portfolio against where demand, differentiation, and white space actually are. Distinguish what is feasibly repeatable from what must be tailored to the customer, and design offers with a clear reusable core and defined points of customization. Define reference architectures, solution blueprints, and offer definitions — scope, assumptions, dependencies, and delivery approach — that teams can reuse across engagements. Mine delivery and pursuit patterns, harvesting reusable assets, accelerators, and design patterns from real engagements into the portfolio. Partner with the leaders of the eight delivery capabilities and with business architects to ensure offers are coherent end-to-end and grounded in the framework. Support sales and pursuit teams with solution shaping, ensuring proposed solutions map to portfolio offers and are feasible to deliver. Govern the portfolio lifecycle — prioritizing, versioning, and retiring offers based on market fit, reuse, and delivery evidence. Establish the standards, artifacts, and intake process that keep the portfolio current, discoverable, and adopted by delivery and sales teams. A curated portfolio of repeatable offers exists, is adopted by delivery and pursuit teams, and maps clearly to market and industry need. A growing share of engagements is delivered from repeatable offers rather than fully bespoke solutions, improving speed and predictability. Offers are aligned to the product and engineering roadmap, with a clear reusable core and defined customization points. Reusable assets and patterns from delivery and pursuits are consistently harvested back into the portfolio. Sales and pursuit teams can shape credible, feasible solutions faster because the portfolio gives them a proven starting point. Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain (e.g., Security) OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain (e.g., Security) OR equivalent experience. Proven track record designing enterprise solutions and translating them into repeatable, reusable offers or accelerators. Understanding of the market and competitive landscape for AI and enterprise solutions, and the ability to position offers against real demand. Ability to read a product and engineering roadmap and align a solution portfolio to platform direction. Sound judgment for distinguishing what is feasibly repeatable from what must be tailored to the customer. Experience defining reference architectures, solution blueprints, and offer definitions used across multiple engagements. Ability to work across delivery, product and engineering, sales, and pursuit teams, and to influence without direct authority. Experience supporting pre-sales or pursuits with solution shaping and feasibility assessment. Industry expertise in one or more domains such as Financial Services, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Energy, or Government, including their solution and regulatory requirements. Familiarity with the disciplines behind the eight delivery capabilities and how offers span them end-to-end. Experience with offer or product portfolio management, including lifecycle governance, versioning, and retirement. Experience building solution catalogs, reference architectures, or accelerator libraries adopted at scale. Background in management consulting, enterprise transformation, or a delivery organization.

More like this