Enterprise Architect

Overview

The Enterprise Architect is the primary technical visionary responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the enterprise architecture for US Utilities. This role designs the target-state technology landscape that supports the Utility digital roadmap, ensuring solutions are integrated, scalable, secure, and aligned with Utility strategic objectives, RoE priorities, and global functional strategies.

Serving as a bridge between business strategy and technical implementation, the Enterprise Architect provides architectural direction across customer, grid, and asset domains. This role reduces technical debt, prevents siloed solutions, and enables faster, safer delivery by establishing standards, reference architectures, and clear modernization sequencing.

• Define and evolve enterprise architecture and multi-year technology roadmaps aligned to Utility strategy, RoE priorities, and targeted outcomes across Customer Engagement, T&D Transformation, and Smart Grid.
• Architect solutions around business domains and end-to-end capabilities to ensure alignment to operational workflows and business outcomes.
• Align strategy to execution through actionable implementation roadmaps and capability-based planning.
• Provide solution architecture leadership by partnering with product and program teams, establishing architectural guardrails, reviewing designs to ensure alignment with target architecture, security, performance, resiliency, and operability standards, supporting both project-centric and product-centric delivery models.
• Govern integration, data, and technical dependencies by defining enterprise integration patterns, establishing data domain ownership and quality expectations, and proactively managing cross-system dependencies to prevent silos and integration failures.
• Lead architecture governance and stakeholder alignment, including design reviews, standards communication, and exception management.
• Embed compliance, auditability, and policy enforcement directly into architectural designs to support regulatory compliance and enable safe adoption of advanced technologies.
• Incorporate AI-enabled, automation, and advanced analytics opportunities into capability-based planning, identifying where intelligent decisioning, workflow orchestration, and data-driven insights can drive step-change improvements in operational performance, cost efficiency, and customer experience.
• Design for hybrid architectures that layer modern capabilities onto legacy utility systems, balancing innovation with reliability, regulatory compliance, and operational continuity.
• Drive technology rationalization, technical debt reduction, lifecycle management, platform standardization, and vendor technology evaluations to ensure long-term architectural viability.
• Partner with Digital PMO and portfolio leadership to align architecture priorities with investment decisions and initiative sequencing.
• Advocate for US Digital Utilities within ASA and global IT organizations and serve as a technical champion for major enterprise programs, ensuring alignment between enterprise architecture, portfolio investments, and targeted business outcomes.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or related experience. Master’s degree preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in software development, architecture, or digital product leadership roles.
• Proven experience designing architectures in complex, integrated, and regulated environments.
• Experience applying advanced analytics, automation, and/or AI-enabled capabilities within enterprise environments, with the ability to identify practical use cases aligned to business value.
• Demonstrated ability to align technology strategy with business objectives and portfolio execution.
• Deep understanding of enterprise integration, data architecture, and modern technology platforms.
• Strong strategic thinking and the ability to negotiate architectural tradeoffs with executive stakeholders.
• Proven ability to influence without authority and drive standards across matrixed organizations.
• Ability to operate effectively in fast-evolving technology environments, balancing long-term architectural vision with near-term delivery needs.
• Resilience and resourcefulness in navigating large-scale, global energy environments.