Solutions Architect

Saint Louis, MO, US, 63101 Birmingham, AL, US, 35203 Kansas City, MO, US, 64129

Spire is seeking a Solutions Architect to support Enterprise Asset Management and Field Technologies. This position will focus on providing the necessary analysis and design tasks related to support the development of technological solutions to ensure these solutions meet business needs and align with enterprise architectural governance and standards.

We are committed to understanding the needs of the homes and businesses we serve. That's why we're always looking for driven, collaborative people to join our team. Because we believe that offering our customers the best service means bringing together the best people.

And we find the best by hiring those who share our values of safety, inclusion and integrity, and demonstrate the competencies that bring the Spire vision, mission and culture to life:

• Adaptability:
  We embrace change, continuously seeking opportunities for improvement while remaining open-minded and flexible in response to evolving conditions and customer, stakeholder and company needs.
• Collaboration:
  
  We achieve more together through a foundation of respect, embracing healthy conflict, actively seeking and providing actionable feedback and fostering an environment where everyone’s input is welcomed.
• Ownership:
  We see things through, demonstrate accountability, honor commitments, take responsibility for outcomes and demonstrate initiative.

By living our values and competencies, we strive to create an environment where employees feel welcome, respected and valued.

• Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural solution blueprint to achieve business goals and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.
• Provides and maintains architectural designs and diagrams for individual and collective solutions and products.
• Works with architects throughout the organization to create and define technology roadmap in developing vision for solutions and assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business and IT estate.
• Leads design and analysis for the implementation of a solutions based on value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards.
• Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of both standard and custom software configurations for the solution in scope.
• Strong ability to translate solution roadmap into annual planning and budget cycle.
• Works closely with product management to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the specific product lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of agile Dev Ops principles and ability to lead teams and organization in alignment and transformation.
• Provides consulting support to technical personnel and software engineers within agile teams to ensure the project or product is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture.
• Ability to depict and communicate technical work in the form of product features in conjunction with Product Management and prioritize accordingly alongside business enhancements and enterprise initiatives.
• Creates and maintains technical standards and policies at a solution level, in conjunction with architects throughout the organization.
• Breaks down technical work into features, accept technical feature work, ensuring acceptance criteria and definition of done are achieved.
• Addresses dependencies at a solution level, providing oversight and guidance as needed.
• Understand software licensing and the impact of licensing when making technology decisions.
• Work with Information Security to complete security testing on applications.
• Deep understanding of solution value-streams and business activities
• Ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences
• Understanding of long-term ("big picture") versus short-term perspectives of situations
• Ability to translate business requirements into solution architecture requirements
• Quickly adapt to work creatively and analytically to solve business problems and propose solutions
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies
• Understanding of Agile values and principles and the ability to translate that knowledge to practices
• Understand and operate within lean budget guardrails
• Foster psychological safety across the entire ITS organization
• Demonstrate Lean-Agile thinking
• Believes in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, and trust across the train

• No direct reports, but indirect influential leadership skills required

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information-technology, engineering, system analysis or a related study
• Minimum 3 years working in an agile environment a plus

• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms, and processing…