Manager - IT Solutions Architecture

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The Manager of IT Solutions Architecture leads the team responsible for how technology solutions are designed, integrated, and delivered. The role is hands-on: setting technical direction, enforcing architecture standards, and staying close enough to the work to review designs and make defensible trade-offs. It is equally a people role—hiring and developing architects, managing performance, balancing workload across project delivery, operations, training, and time off, and producing the monthly capacity forecast that project planning depends on.

The manager partners daily with cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, project management, IT operations, and Dev Ops. The strongest candidates bring depth in several technical domains, familiarity across the rest, and a track record of growing people and leading through influence.

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of application and solution architects—hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development, and cross-training.
• Build the monthly capacity forecast projecting each architect’s time across projects, operations, training, and time off, and provide it to the project team for capacity planning.
• Assign and balance work across the team, resolve competing project and operational demands, and escalate when demand exceeds capacity.
• Lead the evolution of the IT solutions architecture function—its processes, deliverables, governance, and standards.
• Contribute to ERCOT’s IT strategic plan and translate it into actionable architecture roadmaps.
• Assess the current IT environment for deficiencies, technical debt, and risk, and recommend prioritized remediation.
• Oversee the technical and business roadmaps, reference architectures, and design deliverables the team produces.
• Review and approve solution designs for alignment with enterprise architecture, security, and operational supportability.
• Direct the standards-setting process, lead the architecture standards committee, and maintain the principles governing technology investment.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI and cloud, and set practical guardrails for the team’s use of AI-assisted tooling.
• Partner with cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, the project team, IT operations, and Dev Ops on security requirements, enterprise alignment, resource planning, and supportable designs.
• Develop vendor strategies, contribute to build versus buy decisions, and provide input to departmental budgeting.

• Minimum 8 years of job-related work experience and 2 years in a leadership role in excess of degree requirements. Minimum years of job-related experience can include time in leadership roles.
• Experience in at least two IT disciplines—such as solution architecture, application development, data management, or IT operations—supporting a 24x7 environment.
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