Principal Enterprise Architect - Cloud and Infrastructure

Principal Enterprise Architect - Cloud and Infrastructure

Full Time Perm

Way of Work: Hybrid, 3 days on location

Salary Range: $155,400 - $233,100, plus 10% annual bonus

Location: Columbus, OH;
Canonsburg, PA;
Merrillville, IN

Relocation Assistance Provided

NiSource is one of the largest fully regulated utility companies in the U.S., serving millions of customers across six states. We're more than an energy provider— we’re a team committed to innovation, inclusion, and growth. At NiSource, you'll find a workplace that encourages collaboration, supports professional development, and empowers employees to make an impact.

Reporting to the Head of Architecture, the Principal Enterprise Architect works closely with the Application Development, Infrastructure, Security, PMO, Data and Analytics teams to provide overall architecture leadership across NiSource. The Principal Enterprise Architect will build out the architecture vision, strategy, and capability roadmap. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience envisioning and translating overall architecture with business needs via transformation roadmaps, establish target architecture and standards for the organization, building consensus, and provide guidance in the selling and execution within solution development processes of options and reuse points.

• Provides senior level expertise on overall direction, guidance, definition, decisions, and priorities regarding the enterprise's overall architecture to effectively support the organization business strategy.

• Interact with business leaders, IT leaders, vendors and industry experts to translate business requirements, understand options to capabilities, and create architecture blueprints and high‑level solution designs for the most complex architectural components of a program.

• Strategy - Interfaces across several business areas, acting as a visionary to proactively assist in defining direction for future projects. Help business leaders and their teams think through the technology, business and operational implications of their technology investment decisions.

• Execution - Reviews, advises, and designs standard software and hardware builds, system options, risks, costs versus benefits, and impact on the enterprise business process and goals. Be the architecture thought leader and trusted go‑to partner for Product and Engineering leadership across the organization, recommending innovative solutions to improve live and new system architectures.

• Operations - Facilitates the establishment and implementation of standards and reference material that guides the design of technology solutions. Lead architectural collaboration and governing processes including Architecture Review Boards, Solution Architecture reviews, exception management, and related processes.

• Innovation - Responsible for researching, analyzing, designing, proposing, and delivering solutions that are appropriate for the business and technologies strategies. Tracks industry trends and maintains knowledge of new technologies to better serve the enterprise's architecture needs.

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of relevant enterprise-wide architecture
• Cloud domain technologies listed:
  Azure compute products, Cisco, Docker, Equinix, Kubernetes, Microsoft solutions, Mulesoft, Palo Alto, Service Now, VMWare, OnPrem migrations to Cloud solutions
• Cloud capabilities listed: APIs, Automation, Cloud Services, Compute, Databases, Development Tools, End User Computing & Management, Infrastructure as Code, Logging & Monitoring, Network Segmentation (private & public), Runtime Environments, Security, Service Operations, Storage, Unified Communications
• Deep knowledge of API-first design patterns
• Strong consultative skills at a cross‑functional level
• Knowledge of TOGAF, ITIL, and other architecture / business process frameworks
• Leadership competencies in:
  Organizing and Setting Priorities, Managing and Measuring Work, Peer Relationships, Continuous Improvement, Motivating Others, Self‑motivated; capable of managing multiple tasks

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