Principal Enterprise Architect

Pacific Gas and Electric Company; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the utility sector seeks a Manager/Principal for its Information Technology department. The role involves developing enterprise architecture and technology roadmaps to enhance operational efficiency and support grid modernization initiatives. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in enterprise architecture, strong leadership skills, and a background in utilities. This hybrid position requires collaboration across various teams to ensure alignment with business goals and technology implementations.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of enterprise architecture experience.
• Experience in Utilities with focus on Grid Modernization.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with leadership to define system operations strategy.
• Develop and maintain technology roadmaps.
• Lead vendor assessments and support RFPs.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Analytical skills

Education

BA/BS degree in Computer Science

Master’s degree in computer science

Tools

ADMS

SCADA

DERMS

Job description

Requisition ID# 164321

Job Category: Information Technology

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Information Technology

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview
Information Technology is a unified organization comprised of various departments which collaborate in order to effectively deliver high quality technology solutions. IT functions are to design, develop, operate and maintain the information and telecommunications systems that enable the Company to meet its commitment to customers: Keeping the Lights on and the Gas Flowing, delivering at a Reasonable Price, and Providing Simple and Convenient Options.

Position Summary

The Enterprise Strategy & Architecture (ES&A) is a centralized architecture group within Information Technology department. The group supports PG&E’s safety, reliability and affordability goals under the architecture mandate of Reuse, Rationalize, Optimize, and Standardize.

Reporting to the Lead Enterprise Architect, the successful candidate in the role will be a Master Planner with a big picture mindset responsible for turning the architecture vision for the business domain into reality by:

• Developing thorough understanding of the business processes, application portfolio, underlying IT infrastructure
• Suggesting technology needs to enable business maturity and help prioritize the right investments
• Create business architecture models to help connect business vision, goals and outcomes to corresponding technology implementation roadmaps
• Owning the architecture of a portfolio of applications
• Create enterprise strategy in alignment with PG&E True North Strategy Goals
• Helping build and maintain prioritized portfolio backlogs for business features and foundational or shared capabilities
• Enabling and empowering execution teams by delivering reusable architecture patterns, architecture building blocks, reference architectures, implementation best practices, and architecture decision frameworks
• Coaching, mentoring, and guiding the implementation teams throughout the value chain
• Rolling up the sleeves to get the job done is required
• Collaborating with several teams within Business and IT on a regular basis.

The successful candidate will have strong experience with diverse set of technologies and platforms with deep expertise in at least a few, highly analytical, and project management skills. You should also have strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills. Experience working with or in the utility industry is highly desirable but not required.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and our Oakland, CA office approximately 1 - 2 days per week, or more, based on business needs.

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.

This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.

A reasonable salary range is:

Bay Area Minimum: $155,000.00
Bay Area Maximum: $265,000.00

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborate with executive and senior leadership to define system operations and grid modernization strategy.
• Develop and maintain technology roadmaps to support PG&E's goals.
• Partner with business to develop technology roadmaps for ongoing ADMS and DERMS Initiatives.
• Assess current IT application environment for operational technology, smart grid, and microgrid, and develop future IT architecture.
• Lead vendor assessments, support RFP’s and application rationalization efforts.
• Support IT strategic planning and portfolio modernization process for the portfolio.
• Coordinate roadmaps across enterprise groups to manage conflicts, redundancies, and interdependencies.
• Collaborate with domain enterprise architects to ensure strategies, standards, design patterns, and roadmaps are consistent and integrated.
• Support project delivery and provide enterprise architecture view to support solution designs.
• Stay updated with developments in AI, edge computing, and other emerging industry segments within the portfolio.
• Be a self-starter, able to solve complex issues with cross-functional teams, and thrive in a fast-moving, agile environment.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Eng. or a related subject or equivalent experience
• Minimum 10 years of enterprise architecture experience

Desired:

• Experience in Utilities with experience in at least one or more of the following focus areas: Grid Modernization, Asset/Work Management, ADMS, SCADA, and DERMS
• Master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Business, or a related field
• Experience with technologies in the Grid Modernization and Operations technology (OT), Asset and Work Management
• Architecture implementation experience in one of following: ADMS, SCADA, and/or DERMS
• Excellent Communication and Interpersonal skills

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• High-energy, passionate, and positive outlook with strong sense of ownership

• Experience or familiarity with diverse set of application development technologies and platforms
• Good understanding of business and data architecture, business capability mapping, and business process reengineering
• Solution architecture, and project implementation experience
• Relevant architecture certification such as TOGAF

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