Senior Application Architect

At ERCOT, our diverse and dynamic work environment provides a platform on which employees can work together to build the future of the Texas power grid and wholesale market utilizing the latest technologies and resources. We encourage you to join our talented, dedicated workforce to develop world-class solutions for today and tomorrow’s energy challenges while learning new skills and growing your career.

ERCOT is committed to fostering inclusion at all levels of our company. It is the cornerstone of our corporate values of accountability, leadership, innovation, trust, and expertise. We know that individuals with a wide variety of talents, ideas, and experiences propel the innovation that drives our success. An inclusive and diverse workforce strengthens us and allows for a collaborative environment to solve the challenges that face our industry today and in the future.

Define and maintain application architectures across on-prem and cloud-native, microservices, and API-driven systems. Partner with development teams to guide solution design, code quality, and engineering best practices throughout the SDLC. Use AI-assisted tooling (such as Claude, OpenAI, or Git Hub Copilot) as part of everyday engineering and architecture work—accelerating design, prototyping, code review, and documentation—and help teams adopt these tools effectively and responsibly.

Guide cloud strategy and modernization—including workload assessments, migration and modernization approaches, and foundational design—across cloud environments. Design identity and access management approaches—authentication, authorization, single sign-on, and role- or attribute-based access—and partner with security teams on identity governance and least-privilege access. Establish observability practices—logging, metrics, distributed tracing, profiling, and meaningful alerting—so teams can understand system health and diagnose issues quickly. Promote Infrastructure-as-Code and environment automation to support consistent, repeatable provisioning and environment parity.

Help shape CI/CD practices and pipelines, integrating automated testing, security scanning, static analysis, and staged deployments. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define technical roadmaps, architectural standards, and reusable patterns. Provide support for development teams, including API design, performance tuning, and troubleshooting complex issues. Ensure solutions meet enterprise security, compliance, and governance requirements. Mentor engineers across application, cloud, identity, and platform disciplines to elevate team capability and technical maturity.

• Minimum 5 years of related experience in an architecture or senior engineering capacity.
• Strong foundation in application architecture, distributed systems, integration, and API design.
• Hands‑on experience designing and operating cloud services in a major public cloud, with the adaptability to work across more than one cloud platform.
• Working knowledge of identity and access management—authentication and authorization protocols (such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, or SAML), single sign‑on, role‑based access, and enterprise identity providers.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring practices—instrumentation, logging, metrics, profiling, and tracing—and one or more supporting tools (e.g., Log Analytics, Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, or Grafana).
• Experience with Dev Ops tooling and CI/CD (such as Git Hub Actions or Jenkins).
• Operational knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code and environment automation (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
• Backend development experience in one or more common languages (such as C++, Java, or Python).
• Comfort…