Solutions Architect - IT Nuclear

Dominion Energy is committed to providing reliable, affordable, and increasingly clean energy that powers our customers every day. If you want to work for a purpose-driven company that values safety and collaboration, we’re looking for you. You won’t just find a job here; you’ll find your career.

We offer a hybrid work schedule (one week in the office, one week of teleworking) to accommodate the need for flexibility.

Military service members and veterans with ranks from E5-E9, W1-CW5, or O3-O6, plus appropriate equivalent combination of education and years of experience as outlined below will be considered for this opportunity.

At this time, Dominion Energy cannot transfer or sponsor a work visa or employment authorization for this position.

This position does not offer relocation assistance.

The Solutions Architect provides technical leadership for the design, modernization, integration, and long-term viability of business applications and assigned application portfolios. The role translates business outcomes, enterprise technology direction, and security and regulatory requirements into implementable solution architectures. Operating as a trusted technical leader, the architect produces durable architecture artifacts, establishes reusable patterns, challenges incomplete designs, and guides cross-functional teams through decision-making, implementation, operational readiness, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain application and solution architectures for individual products, groups of products, and assigned application portfolios.
• Produce and maintain architecture diagrams, data flows, integration and dependency models, decision records, technical roadmaps, standards, patterns, implementation guidance, and runbooks. Lead technical discovery, feasibility studies, proofs of concept, RFx support, vendor evaluation, and architecture due diligence for modernization, platform migrations, and emerging technologies.
• Translate business, cybersecurity, data protection, regulatory, resiliency, and operational requirements into solution designs and technical requirements.
• Assess application dependencies, interfaces, infrastructure needs, lifecycle risks, and technology debt; recommend practical modernization, migration, replacement, or retirement strategies.
• Guide design and code reviews to ensure technical quality, supportability, security, reliability, performance, and alignment with approved business and enterprise architecture standards; identify needs for clarification, refinement, or approved exceptions.
• Coordinate end-to-end solution readiness across product, IT engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, vendor, and business teams through implementation, transition, stabilization, and operational handoff.
• Support business continuity and disaster recovery planning by defining critical dependencies, recovery requirements, fallback capabilities, and architectural risks. Mentor less experienced team members and communicate technical options, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to technical teams and business leadership.

The knowledge, skills, abilities and experiences required for entry into this job include the following:

• 7+ years of relevant experience in application, solution, systems, integration, infrastructure, software engineering, cybersecurity, or a directly related field.
• Expert knowledge of application and solution architecture across on-premises, cloud, hybrid, containerized, vendor-hosted, and custom-developed environments, including integrations, APIs, data flows, infrastructure dependencies, monitoring, resiliency, and disaster recovery.
• Experience with application modernization, technology lifecycle planning, platform migration,…