Senior Manager, IT Architecture

Xcel Energy (NASDAQ: XEL) is a leading energy provider and Fortune 500 company, dedicated to serving millions of electricity and natural gas customers across eight states:
Minnesota, Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico and Texas. We make energy work better for our customers, helping them thrive every day. That means always raising the bar - delivering better service and providing more reliable, resilient, and sustainable energy. Xcel Energy is a place where you’ll have opportunities to grow, expand your skills, and help lead the clean energy transition.

We offer meaningful rewards, recognition, and support to help you build your career and make an impact - both on the job and beyond. Most importantly, it means you’ll be joining a company that knows employees are the driving force behind its success and is committed to helping you be your best.

Xcel Energy supports a hybrid work model to enable collaboration and flexibility. Many roles are expected to work onsite three days per week (Tuesday–Thursday); however, work location expectations vary based on role, team, and business needs.

Position Summary The Senior Manager, IT Architecture leads a team of architects responsible for defining and governing technology strategy, architecture, and roadmaps across the Customer and ERP domains. This role partners closely with business and technology leaders to evolve business capabilities, support enterprise priorities, and ensure technology investments align with long-term business and technology strategies.

As a people leader and architecture leader, the Senior Manager is responsible for domain strategy, architecture governance, technical leadership, and the development of architectural talent. The role influences technology decisions, drives adoption of enterprise architecture standards, and supports business transformation through effective architecture practices.

Essential Responsibilities Lead and develop a high-performing architecture team, including hiring, coaching, performance management, succession planning, and professional development. Foster a culture of technical excellence, innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Define and evolve domain architectures and roadmaps that align business objectives, technology investments, and delivery priorities. Partner with business leaders to identify capability gaps, establish target-state capabilities, and drive business outcomes.

Develop technology strategies and target-state architectures for assigned business domains, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy, regulatory requirements, and long-term technology objectives.

Establish and govern architecture principles, standards, patterns, and reference architectures to ensure solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, integrated, and aligned with enterprise goals. Provide architectural oversight for major programs and technology investments.

Partner with business, technology, and executive leaders to shape domain strategies, technology investments, and key decisions. Communicate complex technical concepts in clear business terms and build alignment across stakeholders.

Support architecture modernization and technology transformation initiatives across applications, data, integration, cloud, AI, and platform ecosystems. Drive simplification, reduce technical debt, and ensure solutions, vendor engagements, and technology investments align with approved architectures and business objectives.

Minimum Requirements Bachelor's degree in Technology, Science, Business or related field, or 4 years of experience equivalent to the position.

Five years of prior people leadership experience

Ten years of experience with end-to-end service lifecycle, business process,…