Program Architect – ADMS

Program Architect – ADMS

Location: Dallas, TX – Downtown
Work Arrangement: Hybrid – 3 Days Onsite/Week
Interview: Face-to-Face Interview Mandatory
Job Type: Contract

We are seeking an experienced Program Architect – ADMS to provide architectural leadership across a large-scale enterprise Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) program.

The Program Architect will own and coordinate the end-to‑end program architecture across multiple projects, systems, platforms, and delivery teams. This role will bridge enterprise architecture strategy and program execution
, ensuring architectural consistency, strong governance, effective integration, and successful delivery at scale.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in enterprise/solution architecture, complex system integration, cloud/hybrid environments, distributed systems, and technical leadership
.

Experience with
utility/grid modernization and Aspen Tech OSI ADMS is highly preferred.

• Own end-to‑end architecture for the assigned program, including target state, transition states, and integration strategy.

• Ensure architectural consistency across projects and work streams.

• Serve as the architectural escalation point for cross‑solution conflicts, tradeoffs, and risks.

• Define architectural guardrails and ensure solutions remain scalable, maintainable, and production‑ready.

• Partner with Enterprise Architects to translate enterprise standards and principles into program‑level architecture.

• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture, security, reliability, and regulatory requirements.

• Lead program‑level architecture reviews and manage governance artifacts and approvals.

• Establish pragmatic architecture patterns and standards across the program.

• Lead and coordinate Solution Architects and architects across multiple organizational teams.

• Provide architectural direction, guardrails, and decision clarity without micromanaging solution design.

• Drive collaboration and alignment across architecture teams.

• Prevent architectural fragmentation, duplication, and conflicting technology decisions.

• Own cross‑system integration strategy, including interfaces, APIs, data flows, and shared services.

• Identify and manage architectural dependencies across projects, platforms, and external programs.

• Proactively identify and mitigate architectural risks affecting program delivery.

• Ensure consistent integration patterns across operational and enterprise systems.

• Define end‑to‑end architecture across ADMS capabilities, including OMS, DMS, and SCADA integrations
  .

• Ensure integration with GIS, AMI, DERMS, EMS, asset management, customer systems, and field/edge systems
  .

• Support real‑time and near‑real‑time telemetry, network models, operational analytics, and control‑room capabilities.

• Establish architectural guardrails for vendor platforms and system integrators.

• Support phased ADMS implementation, legacy‑system transition, and decommissioning strategies.

• Ensure cybersecurity considerations are embedded across OT/IT and IT/OT boundary integrations
  .

• Design for high availability, fault tolerance, scalability, disaster recovery, security, observability, and supportability.

• Remain engaged throughout implementation and production deployment.

• Support delivery teams in resolving architecture‑related technical issues.

• Ensure solutions are operationally ready and production‑ready.

• Capture lessons learned and contribute improvements to enterprise architecture standards.

• 8–10+ years of experience in architecture, engineering, or senior technical…