Lead Product Architect

The Lead Product Architect owns a specific product platform, ensuring technical architecture, requirements, standards, lessons learned, and reusable solutions continuously evolve throughout the complete product lifecycle. This individual leads the transformation of ambiguous concepts, customer needs, market requirements, manufacturing feedback, procurement opportunities, and site execution experience into standardized product architectures and clearly documented technical requirements.

The Lead Product Architect owns creation and maintenance of Product Requirements Documents (PRDs), Component Definition Documents (CDDs), specifications, scope documents and matrices, Illustrated Basis of Design (iBODs), client submittals, vendor and site specific permit submittals, and ETO submittal packages. This also includes development and maintenance of master Revit models, reusable BIM content, configuration standards, early Long Lead Equipment (LLE) Bills of Material (BOMs), and design intent documentation that establish the engineering baseline for Detailed Design, including Engineering Bills of Material (EBOMs), fabrication and manufacturing documentation, while supporting strategic procurement activities.

This role directs Product Developers and collaborates closely with Preconstruction, Program Design Managers, Detailed Design, Construction Engineering, Virtual Design Construction (VDC), Procurement, Manufacturing, Construction, Operations, and other cross-functional stakeholders to ensure product architecture, requirements, and design intent remain aligned throughout the product lifecycle.

The Lead Product Architect ensures product decisions made during concept development optimize the entire value stream including detailed design, supply chain, fabrication, manufacturing, logistics, site installation, commissioning, and long-term product evolution.

Ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience in leading ETO product development and lifecycle improvement, developing Modular Product Platforms or other complex integrated systems, product platform ownership and technical decision making, leading concept development and product standardization, and creating scalable product architectures and reusable design components. Will have experience developing, owning, and maintaining PRDs, CDDs, specifications, iBODs, scope documents/matrices, and product requirements as well as managing programmatic, site specific, vendor specific, and permit product submittal strategies. Experience reviewing and interpreting construction design documents and technical specifications, coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams, as well as understanding concept development, engineering, procurement, fabrication, manufacturing, logistics, construction integration, commissioning, and lifecycle support. Will have demonstrated experience in driving Design for Manufacturing & Assembly (DFMA), cost optimization, quality improvement, and product scalability and leading cross-functional technical decisions and resolving complex product challenges. Will have an expert proficiency in Microsoft Office, Revit (BIM), Autodesk Forma, Navisworks, and Bluebeam as well as working knowledge of AutoCAD Electrical, Inventor (CAD), Vault (PDM), Fusion Manage (PLM), Acumatica (ERP), or related tools.

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