Project Architect
Remote Ok
12 months
EST/CST candidates
Requirements & Qualifications:
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering or related technical major/ discipline.
Seven (7) years of combined experience within information technology operations engineering enterprise architecture application development and/or technical related field.
Three (3) years of handson product or project development activities including knowledge of standard System Development Lifecycle models methodologies and coding standards.
Work product delivered in large enterprise systems and in a complex environment (e.g. systemofsystems).
Collaboration with senior management executives and other stakeholders to identify opportunities.
Creation of highquality presentations proposals statements of work and assessment deliverables.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to translate complex technical information and synthesize for senior executive decisionmaking.
Indepth understanding of complex computer network designs.
Broad and indepth technical understanding of process automation mainstream products & vendors and industrial field protocols that run across complex computer networks and control system platforms.
Masters degree in Computer Science or related engineering field or Information Management preferred.
TOGAF certification or other Enterprise Architecture standards or frameworks preferred.
Electric utility business processes with an emphasis on Transmission and Distribution Engineering and Operations Preferred.
Control systems communication networks cybersecurity technologies and/or Operational Technologies (OT ) preferred.
Agile methodology DevOps and CI/CD preferred.
Microservicesbased architecture
Coordinate and support the development of solution architecture deliverables and approaches and enforce overall enterprise architecture (EA) solution patterns.
- Create logical and physical architecture deliverables which include Solution Architecture Definition (SAD) various Design Specifications (xDS) System Requirements Specification (SRS) and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
- Collaborate with all engineering including cyber early in the planning and design cycles.
- Collaborate with product (portfolio) owners product managers architects and any other productoriented stakeholders to create a technology architecture to meet the needs of the product strategy.
- Organize and conduct peer reviews of architecture deliverables.
- Create reference architecture and models with design patterns that promote reuse compliance and overall technology efficiency.
- Responsible for identifying and potentially resolving technical debt across multiple product lines ensuring that it is being addressed in a way that balances shortterm business needs with longterm architectural priorities.
- Identify and describe multiple solution options to new and maturing business capabilities and able to work with others to understand financial compliance and technology impact of solution architecture alternatives.
- Coordinate with Portfolio Solution and Enterprise Architect(s) to understand the appropriate business portfolio direction.
- Understand and potentially augment technology domain strategies to ensure that the solution under consideration supports the direction for technology domains.
- Identify assess document and communicate any deviations from EA standards.
- Collaborate with Data and Integration Architect(s) and other solution architects to ensure alignment with data integration and infrastructure domains.
- Generate support critique and acceptance of proposed solutions.
- Review and potentially influence Test Strategy Test Plan and Test Cases to ensure adequate test coverage for the solution.
- Participate in defect resolution process and escalations as required.
- Provide oversight and guidance to technical leads and test leads to ensure that the architecture is adhered to and implemented as designed.
- Demonstrate accountability for the overall quality of the solution design; not limited to as designed but also as implemented.
- Provide oversight for resolving technical issues that arise during any project phase from construction to post implementation.