Sr. Enterprise Architect

Senior Enterprise Architect - Customer / Corporate Solutions Full Time Perm Way of Work

Hybrid

$133,400 - $200,100, plus 10% annual bonus

Columbus, OH

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 Sr Enterprise Architect works closely with the Application Development, Infrastructure, Security, Data & Analytics, and PMO teams to provide overall architecture leadership across NiSource. The Sr Enterprise Architect must possess deep technology experiences within Customer or Business applications to 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.

Your responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• 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
• 7+ years of enterprise-wide architecture, including but not limited to the Application Customer Channels and Corporate Systems technologies listed:
  Adobe, Git Hub, NICE CX, Salesforce, SAP, Service Now
• Familiarity with at least one of the various aspects of Application Customer Channels and Corporate Systems capabilities listed:
  Agile Development, AI/ML, API Gateway & Management, Commerce, Composable Architecture, Customer Service, Development Tools, Dev Sec Ops , Integration, Marketing, Runtime Environments, Sales, or Security
• Experience in directing and mentoring other architects in the team and across the organization.
• Experience with on-premise solutions and cloud platforms on Azure, AWS.
• Strong skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and LeanIX

The preceding description is not designed to be a complete list of all duties and responsibilities required of the position.

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