Program Architect – Utilities (ADMS / SCADA)

Astir IT Solutions, Inc.; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Astir IT Solutions, Inc. seeks a Program Architect – Utilities specializing in ADMS/SCADA to provide architectural leadership across large, multi-project programs. Hybrid role based in Dallas, collaborating with delivery teams to ensure cohesive, secure grid operations platform.

The role requires deep experience in enterprise architecture, integration across OMS/DMS/SCADA, and strong governance to drive scalable, resilient solutions for modern grid modernization efforts.

Qualifications

• Strong years of experience in architecture, engineering, or senior technical leadership roles.
• Proven experience leading architecture for large-scale, multi-project enterprise programs.
• Prior Solution Architect or Lead Architect experience with direct delivery accountability.

Responsibilities

• Defining the end-to-end program architecture across ADMS components including OMS, DMS, SCADA integrations, and real-time data processing layers.
• Ensuring seamless integration with upstream and downstream systems such as GIS, AMI, DERMS, EMS, asset management, customer systems and other edge systems.
• Establishing architectural guardrails for vendor platforms and system integrators to minimize over-customization and ensure long-term maintainability.
• Designing for high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery to support mission-critical grid operations.
• Coordinating data architecture for real-time and near-real-time telemetry, network models, and operational analytics.
• Ensuring consistent system-of-record definitions and data synchronization strategies across operational systems.
• Driving alignment between control room operations, field systems, and enterprise platforms through well-defined integration patterns and interfaces.
• Supporting scalability to accommodate increasing grid complexity, DER penetration, and advanced automation use cases.
• Advising on long-term architectural strategy for phased ADMS rollout, including legacy system decommissioning and transition states.
• Ensuring cybersecurity considerations are embedded in architecture, particularly for OT and IT/OT boundary integrations.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Large-scale programs

Solution/Lead Architect experience

Distributed & data architecture

Cloud/hybrid environments

Security-by-design

Leadership & Influence

Communication & Stakeholder management

Job description

Role : Program Architect – Utilities (ADMS / SCADA)

Hybrid Role – 3 days a week in Dallas Downtown.

Mode of Interview : Face to Face

Role Summary

The Program Architect is responsible for architectural leadership and coordination

across large, complex enterprise programs spanning multiple projects, systems, and

delivery teams. The role bridges enterprise architectural strategy and program

execution, ensuring architectural cohesion, disciplined governance, and successful

delivery at scale.

The Program Architect operates as the architectural owner for a program, orchestrating

solution-level architects across organizational boundaries while enabling Enterprise

Architects to focus on enterprise-wide strategy and standards.

This role is accountable for ensuring architecture decisions are aligned, intentional, and

executable—without becoming a bottleneck to delivery.

Delivery & Execution Support

Required Qualifications Experience

• Strong years of experience in architecture, engineering, or senior technical leadership roles.
• Proven experience leading architecture for large-scale, multi-project enterprise programs.
• Prior Solution Architect or Lead Architect experience with direct delivery accountability.

Technical:

• Distributed and integrated systems
• Application and data architecture
• Cloud and/or hybrid environments
• Security-by-design and non-functional requirements

• Leadership & Influence
• Communication & Stakeholder Management

Program Overview

The Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) program is focused on the

implementation and integration of a modern grid operations platform that unifies outage

management (OMS), distribution management (DMS), and supervisory control and data

acquisition (SCADA) capabilities into a cohesive, real-time operational ecosystem.

Experience with AspenTech OSI Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) is

preferred.

The program spans grid monitoring, control, outage response, network modeling, and

operational analytics to support safe, reliable, and eAicient electric distribution operations.

Key systems and domains in scope include ADMS platform capabilities, integrations with

GIS, AMI, DERMS, EMS, and enterprise operational systems, as well as real-time data

ingestion, control room tooling, and field communications.

The ADMS program is a cornerstone initiative in enabling grid modernization, improving

situational awareness, reducing outage duration, and supporting distributed energy

resource (DER) integration at scale.

Program Architect Focus

The Program Architect ensures that the ADMS platform is implemented as an integrated,

resilient, and scalable grid operations capability—rather than a collection of loosely

coupled operational tools.

Key areas of responsibility include:

• Defining the end-to-end program architecture across ADMS components including
• OMS, DMS, SCADA integrations, and real-time data processing layers.
• Ensuring seamless integration with upstream and downstream systems such as
• GIS, AMI, DERMS, EMS, asset management, customer systems and other edge
• systems.
• Establishing architectural guardrails for vendor platforms and system integrators to
• minimize over-customization and ensure long-term maintainability.
• Designing for high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery to support
• mission-critical grid operations.
• Coordinating data architecture for real-time and near-real-time telemetry, network
• models, and operational analytics.
• Ensuring consistent system-of-record definitions and data synchronization
• strategies across operational systems.
• Driving alignment between control room operations, field systems, and enterprise
• platforms through well-defined integration patterns and interfaces.
• Supporting scalability to accommodate increasing grid complexity, DER
• penetration, and advanced automation use cases.
• Advising on long-term architectural strategy for phased ADMS rollout, including
• legacy system decommissioning and transition states.
• Ensuring cybersecurity considerations are embedded in architecture, particularly
• for operational technology (OT) and IT/OT boundary integrations.