Frontier Portfolio Architect

Overview

The Frontier Transformation Framework helps our customers become Frontier Firms: organizations where AI is not a tool added to the business but part of the operating system the business runs on. Every engagement teaches us something — a use case that works, a pattern that repeats, a design that scales. The difference between a practice that reinvents itself on every deal and one that compounds is a curated portfolio of repeatable offers: productized solutions that capture what works, align to real market and industry need, and make delivery faster, safer, and more predictable.

We are seeking a Frontier Portfolio Architect to build and curate that portfolio of repeatable offers — aligning them to market need, industry requirements, functional use cases, and the patterns we are seeing across customer deliveries and pursuits. In this role, you will decide what belongs in the portfolio and what does not, drawing on a clear read of the market and competitive landscape, the Microsoft product and engineering roadmap, and a disciplined judgment of what is feasibly repeatable versus what must be tailored to the customer.

You will work directly with delivery teams, business architects, product and engineering groups, sales and pursuit teams, and the leaders of the eight delivery capabilities to turn field patterns into reusable, well-architected offers.

This is a role for people who can hold the market view and the engineering view at once, who can see the reusable pattern inside a bespoke engagement, and who are energized by turning scattered delivery learning into a coherent, sellable, deliverable portfolio. You will define reference architecture and offer blueprints, retire what no longer fits, and make the portfolio the backbone of how ISD scales Frontier Transformation. If you are excited by the opportunity to shape what we build once and deliver many times, this role is for you.

Responsibilities

Core Responsibilities

• 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.
• Track the Microsoft product and engineering roadmap, and sequence the offer portfolio to align with what the platform can and will support.
• 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.
• Success in this role looks like
• 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.
• Required/minimum qualifications
• 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.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• 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.
• Working knowledge of the Microsoft AI platform, including Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Agent 365, and the Work IQ, Fabric IQ, and Foundry IQ intelligence layers.
• 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.

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Solution Architecture IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $77,900 - $156,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $100,800 - $169,200 per year.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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