IT Senior Enterprise Architect; Hybrid

Role Overview

Responsible for leading the development of business aligned strategies that transform the capabilities of the enterprise and guiding the evolution of the enterprise to take advantage of those capabilities. Provide direction and governance processes over the development, evolution, and delivery of enterprise outcomes that span all areas of IT. This position will support the Electric Transmission business area.

• Work across application and technology silos to provide ‘big picture’ leadership and direction to the supporting application and technology teams that results in one cohesive ecosystem working together to achieve the business outcomes.
• Develop, communicate, and maintain the strategic roadmap of a complex ecosystem that will coordinate across all silos of the individual application and technology roadmaps.
• Identify assessment and testing approaches for the business solution to ensure resiliency characteristics are understood, risk can be mitigated, and the ongoing solution evolves to sit on current and standard platforms.
• Lead analysis and design of the technical solution for comprehensive resiliency, disaster recovery, and performance of the ecosystem.
• Lead multiple support teams, vendor partners and business partners during critical incidents, scheduled changes or testing initiatives for the entire ecosystem.
• Identify and escalation issues that will impact the ability to achieve desired enterprise outcomes.
• Maintain a relationship with current vendors regarding future direction.
• Maintain a close relationship with all domain and business areas to ensure synergy.
• Develop and lead projects and achieve goals.
• Work across silos and keep the 'big picture' in focus while making decisions and progress that optimize the enterprise desired outcome.
• Maintain an Enterprise perspective even when making tactical decisions and trade-offs.

• Responsible for Enterprise Architecture (EA) deliverables including reference architectures, application guidelines and metrics.
• Subject matter expert for the EA tool set and enterprise governance processes.
• Stay updated and explores the latest relevant technologies to design and implement infrastructure to support innovative IT solutions and new user experiences.
• Ensure IT solutions fit with the current and planned enterprise architecture and standards.
• Work with other team members and other Architect teams to educate and communicate EA practices.
• Deliver technical solutions with both client-side and server-side functionality.
• Work with internal and external customers to define new features.
• Work with vendors as required, to deliver technical solutions.
• Communicate technical solutions to executive level roles in terms of business outcomes and meeting IT objectives.
• Ensure that the solution infrastructure is supportable and can be transitioned smoothly into production support organizations.
• Provide cross-domain technical consultation services throughout the life of delivered projects.
• Assist with complex troubleshooting and coordinate domain experts to solve problems that involve cross-domain issues.
• Create solution architecture documentation throughout the project lifecycle.
• Understand the Electric Transmission business area.

• Strong IT technology knowledge.
• Extensive experience with infrastructure and technology (cloud and on premise).
• Experience with business application technical design and implementation.
• Experience with Enterprise Architecture goals and objectives.
• Extensive knowledge of systems development methodologies and systems integration methodologies.
• Proven experience architecting Disaster recovery solutions and resiliency hosting platforms for business solutions.
• Experience with architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF) and ITIL processes (Release, Change, Capacity, Availability).
• Application Portfolio Management and Technology Portfolio Management are plus.
• Strong interpersonal, communications and presentation skills.
• Knowledge of Electric and Gas utility industry a plus, specifically the Electric Transmission business.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, related discipline, or equivalent experience.
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