Lead Solution Architect – Smart Meter Platform

We+ Asia; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

We+ Asia seeks a Solution Architect to own the end-to-end architecture of the Smart Meter Platform for a leading Hong Kong electricity company. You will orchestrate the transition from legacy AMI to a scalable SMP supporting smart meters, high-integrity billing, and advanced grid analytics.

The role sits at the OT/IT intersection, ensuring meter data is trusted for billing, LV monitoring, and AI-driven insights while meeting security, reliability, and regulatory standards.

Qualifications

• More than 8 years in solution or platform architecture roles.
• Minimum 5 years focused on AMI / smart metering in a utility or large-scale critical infrastructure environment.
• Demonstrated success delivering platform replatforming or migration programmes involving legacy systems and multiple vendors.
• Strong capability in documenting and explaining complex system architectures using UML, sequence diagrams, and architecture views.
• AMI / Smart Metering Domain Expertise.
• Strong communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Hands-on knowledge of China meter standards (e.g. State Grid / CSG specifications) and their practical implementation challenges.
• Familiarity with leading China smart meter OEMs and system providers such as NARI, DongFang, Linde, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead the target-state architecture for client’s Smart Meter Platform, consolidating legacy AMI components into a coherent, scalable, and maintainable architecture.
• Design next-gen SMP able to integrate and operate China OEM meters without creating long-term vendor lock-in.
• Define clear system interoperability between meters, HES, MDM, data platforms, and other enterprise systems.
• Ensure end-to-end data integrity across meter reading, validation, estimation, and billing processes.
• Address real-world conditions such as delayed reads, missing data, clock drift, and reconciliation scenarios.
• Design high-volume, low-latency data pipelines to support LV network monitoring, grid fault detection, power quality analytics, and AI use cases.
• Define edge-to-cloud processing strategies that balance near-meter processing with central analytics platforms.
• Enable downstream teams to consume meter data for operational and analytical use cases.
• Evaluate and integrate China-based smart meter OEMs and platforms, ensuring alignment with architectural, security, and operational standards.
• Lead technical engagements with OEM engineering teams, addressing protocol compliance, interoperability, and scalability risks.

Skills

Solution architecture

AMI / Smart Metering Domain Expertise

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications, Computer Science, or related discipline.

Tools

UML

Sequence diagrams

Job description

We+ Asia seeks a Solution Architect to own the end-to-end architecture of the Smart Meter Platform for a leading Hong Kong electricity company. You will orchestrate the transition from legacy AMI to a scalable SMP supporting smart meters, high-integrity billing, and advanced grid analytics.

The role sits at the OT/IT intersection, ensuring meter data is trusted for billing, LV monitoring, and AI-driven insights while meeting security, reliability, and regulatory standards.