Senior Solution Architect

A Senior Solution Architect in Professional Services, Platform organization plays a pivotal role in driving the success of Power Plan’s strategic and transformational programs within the energy industry. The position is responsible for project delivery, resource development, business development, and leading strategic projects and innovation initiatives.

• Serve as the Solution Architect on large and complex strategic or transformational programs for clients in the energy and utilities industries.
• Responsible for the quality assurance/quality control of projects outside regular assignments to ensure alignment with company standards and client expectations.
• Bring best practice expertise during blueprinting & business process design phases for digital transformation projects.

• Guide and mentor aspiring Leads and Solution Architects, preparing them for design sessions, coaching on approach, debriefing on results, and connecting key deliverables to strategic value drivers and customer outcomes.
• Lead expertise pipeline initiative, leveraging the Skills Matrix and resource specific Individual Development Plans to build robust succession plans and mitigate risk by ensuring adequate solution coverage.
• Lead curated knowledge transfer and training program series to enhance team skills and capabilities.
• Act as a trusted advisor to customers within the energy and utilities domains, continuously developing technical knowledge of utility accounting and growing industry expertise through active participation in Industry Conferences.

• Primary Solution Architect within Professional Services Platform responsible for validating estimates and providing support during the discovery phase of large, complex and/or transformational sales pursuits.
• Compile quarterly assessment of market and industry updates to share across the team to identify market expansion opportunities and ensure the positioning of Power Plan Services remains relevant and competitive.
• Support the creation and standardization of Services Offerings and contribute to the development of a Services Selling Framework.

• Develop team, process, organization, and collateral to lead a cross-functional professional Transformation task force to pursue strategic opportunities, enhance company positioning, and drive execution excellence.
• Develop & continuously improve methodology to deliver expertise & advisory on digital transformation initiatives at customers, such as ERP transformation, business process optimization & re-implementation.
• Develop & continuously improve methodology to deliver expertise & advisory on cloud transformation technology and initiatives.
• Support Transformation initiatives, including project delivery improvement and standardization efforts.
• Incorporate Gen AI (Artificial Intelligence) into strategic projects and assist with methodology improvements to cater to the needs of large, complex programs.

• Project Delivery – 70%
• Resource Development – 5%
• Business Development – 5%
• Strategic Projects/Innovation – 20%

• Revenue generation through direct project delivery as a Solution Architect under associated rate card.
• Increase in project quality and customer value realization through QA assessments.
• Expertise growth and development of internal team through structured coaching of talent pipeline.
• Streamline validation of estimates, requirements, and scope assumptions for sales pursuits.
• Establish team to execute go-to-market strategy for Services offerings to capture new business opportunities.
• Robust collateral repository for transformational project delivery through a standardized approach.
• Digital transformation capabilities support organizational readiness effort to facilitate SaaS adoption.
• Develop and improve organizational readiness around cloud technology and deployments.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• 10+ years’ experience implementing Senior Solution software applications in a…