Senior Manager, IT Solutions Architecture

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Senior Manager, IT Solutions Architecture in the Enterprise Architecture Services at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll lead a team of Solution and Systems Architects designing innovative and customer-centric IT solutions.

As part of the Enterprise Architecture team, the Senior Manager, IT Solutions Architecture will partner with business clients and other parts of IT to provide architecture services including solution and systems architecture, IT portfolio strategy, and roadmaps necessary to plan and deliver IT solutions. You will play a key role in supporting the business through the enablement and automation of business capabilities, functions, processes, and products.

In this role you will:

• Manage a team of architects to deliver client consultations, portfolio architectures and roadmaps, design deliverables, recommendations and impact assessments, IT cost estimations, and occasional troubleshooting.
• Anticipate future business needs and develop short- and long-term architecture roadmaps and solutions to achieve maximized efficiencies.
• Manage solution, system and project architects that develop conceptual, logical and support physical solution designs and lead continuous improvement of architecture capabilities with full design accountability.
• Manage multi-disciplinary solutions, system and project architects, and provide management and administrative support as well as technical guidance to both employees and contractors.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (executives, management, engineering and developers, operations engineers, product owners, and business managers) to lead IT designs and investment decisions for the assigned portfolio.

As a
Senior Manager
, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

• Communicates architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies, and gains interpersonal dedication from IT and business leaders for enterprise-level architecture, infrastructure, data, software, search, technology initiatives.
• Assigns architecture resources, directs the architectural work of key initiatives, architectural governance, architectural vision, roadmap, standards and guidelines, patterns, frameworks, and selection of appropriate tools.
• Collaborates and pairs with other product team members (infrastructure, UX, engineering, and product management) to lead their team members in designing secure, reliable, scalable software solutions.
• Coordinates architecture resources to establish reference architectures and design patterns, as well as delivery and support of the key reusable technology platforms and services to increase the speed to value of solution design and implementation.
• Reviews the system characteristics of all aspects of conceptual and logical architecture designs proactively. Leads team members in the development of portfolio architectures, population of enterprise application tools and data to help with application rationalization and technical portfolio and enterprise architecture roadmaps.
• Serves as an escalation point for difficult architecture and trade-off analysis situation during solution analysis.
• Manages resource capacity, demand, and architecture metrics for their team to support staffing decisions and resource allocation.
• Works with internal stakeholders, vendors, and the open-source community to help identify needed software improvements in products.
• Leads learning activities around modern architecture and design practices.
• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial…