Enterprise Architect, Principal - Compute and Storage

PG&E; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary incentive compensation

Job summary

PG&E in Oakland is seeking an Enterprise Architect to own Compute & Storage architecture across hybrid and multi‑cloud environments. You will define strategy, target architectures, standards, and roadmaps for enterprise compute platforms, storage services, backup and recovery capabilities, workload placement, and data resiliency.

The successful candidate will translate enterprise strategy into living patterns, prioritised roadmaps, and reusable components, working with delivery and operations

Responsibilities

• Define the enterprise compute and storage target architecture across on‑prem, hybrid and multi‑cloud environments.
• Develop capability‑based roadmaps to modernize infrastructure, improve resiliency, and increase efficiency.
• Establish architectural principles, standards and reference architectures for compute, storage, backup, replication, and disaster recovery.

Job description

Job Category: Information Technology

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Technology & Security

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

Information Systems Technology Services is a unified organization comprised of various departments which collaborate effectively in order to deliver high quality technology solutions.

Position Summary

Enterprise Strategy & Architecture (ES&A) is a centralized architecture organization within the Information Technology department. ES&A supports the company's safety, reliability, affordability, and regulatory objectives by providing clear architectural direction, disciplined governance, and practical guidance that accelerates delivery while reducing risk and complexity.

Reporting to the Senior Manager Technology Architecture, this role serves as the Enterprise Architect responsible for Compute & Storage architecture across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The role defines the strategy, target architecture, standards, and roadmaps for enterprise compute platforms, storage services, backup and recovery capabilities, workload placement, and data resiliency solutions.

The successful candidate is a systemslevel thinker and master planner who translates enterprise strategy into living target architectures, prioritized roadmaps, and reusable patterns, working early and continuously with delivery and operations teams to ensure solutions are aligned, secure, and executable. Architects in this role are expected to focus on enabling outcomes and delivery.

The range to reasonably expect will be around the minimum and the midpoint $155,000 - $210,000. The final decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to the factors above. This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E's discretionary incentive compensation programs.

Bay Area Min: $ 155,000

Bay Area Max: $ 265,000

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and 1-2 days per week at our Oakland Headquarters based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory.

Architecture Vision & Direction

• Define and evolve the enterprise Compute & Storage target architecture, including hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure strategies.
• Develop capability-based roadmaps that advance infrastructure modernization, resiliency, and operational efficiency.
• Establish architectural principles, standards, and reference architectures for enterprise compute, storage, backup, replication, and disaster recovery platforms.
• Drive strategic decisions for workload placement by balancing cost, performance, resilience, operational complexity, and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure infrastructure architecture aligns with enterprise technology strategy, cloud adoption plans, and modernization initiatives.

Compute & Storage Scope

• Define and govern the enterprise compute and storage across on-premises, hybrid, AWS, and Azure environments, including workload placement, infrastructure standards, and reusable compute/storage building blocks.
• Architect compute platforms and hosting foundations, including VM platforms, clustering, cloud IaaS integration, container hosting dependencies, infrastructure templates, and platform interoperability across environments.
• Architect enterprise storage ecosystems across block, file, object, archival, backup, and cloud-native storage services, including storage tiering, data placement, efficiency, lifecycle management, and backup class standards.
• Define resilient data protection and mobility patterns across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including replication, backup and restore, disaster recovery, RPO/RTO guidance, ransomware resilience, immutability, recoverability, and business continuity requirements.
• Lead performance, capacity, observability, interoperability, and cost optimization across compute and storage platforms, including CPU, memory, storage IOPS, latency, infrastructure health, data egress, portability, and cloud-versus-on-prem economics.

Delivery Enablement & Governance

• Engage early in planning and solution shaping activities to ensure infrastructure decisions align with enterprise standards and target architectures.
• Provide reusable architecture patterns, standards, and decision frameworks for compute,