Senior Digital Workplace Architect

Mississippi Power Co; Birmingham (AL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern Company Services seeks an experienced Architect to define future-state architecture and technology standards for Digital Workplace Technologies in a large enterprise. You will lead across endpoint management, automation, and workplace security, shaping multi-year roadmaps and governance aligned with Southern Company objectives.

You will guide secure, scalable solutions, drive modernization and AI-enabled operations, and collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field required.
• Advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develops, governs, and maintains strategic architecture roadmaps for endpoint management, digital employee experience, software delivery, automation, vulnerability management, and workplace security platforms.
• Creates and governs reference architectures, design standards, engineering patterns, technology blueprints, architecture principles, and reusable solution frameworks.
• Defines future-state architecture strategies supporting cloud-first endpoint management, digital workplace modernization, automation, employee experience improvement, and secure technology adoption.
• Architecture Governance: Leads architecture reviews and solution design approvals for major projects impacting Digital Workplace Technologies.
• Ensures solutions comply with enterprise architecture standards, cybersecurity requirements, operational support models, resiliency expectations, and lifecycle governance practices.
• Identifies, assesses, and manages technical debt, platform rationalization opportunities, modernization initiatives, architectural risks, and strategic investment needs.
• Technology Modernization & Innovation: Leads initiatives involving AI-enabled operations, workforce analytics, predictive remediation, automation, self-healing technologies, cloud management, and autonomous endpoint management capabilities.
• Evaluates emerging technologies and develops strategic recommendations supporting business objectives, operational excellence, security improvement, employee productivity, and user experience.
• Leads proof-of-concept activities, technology assessments, vendor evaluations, architecture comparisons, adoption strategies, and implementation recommendations.
• Strategic Leadership: Provides technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, analysts, project teams, and technical stakeholders; collaborates with Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Application, vendor, and business teams; establishes platform health indicators and metrics used to measure reliability, security, performance, lifecycle readiness, and employee experience outcomes.
• Collaborates with Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, and Application teams to ensure alignment across technology domains.
• Engage vendors for POC/POV as needed to determine the applicability of emerging technologies within the Southern Enterprise.
• Develops capacity, performance, resiliency, and lifecycle strategies for workplace technology platforms.
• Establishes architecture metrics and health indicators used to measure platform effectiveness and employee experience outcomes.

Skills

Intune

MECM

Microsoft 365

Windows management

Endpoint technologies

Roadmaps

Governance

Digital Employee Experience

Automation

Endpoint analytics

Predictive remediation

Self-healing

AI-enabled operations

Vulnerability management

Zero-trust

Security

Lifecycle management

PowerShell

APIs

WMI

Orchestration platforms

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

PowerShell

APIs

WMI

Orchestration platforms

Job description

Southern Company Services seeks an experienced Architect to define future-state architecture and technology standards for Digital Workplace Technologies in a large enterprise. You will lead across endpoint management, automation, and workplace security, shaping multi-year roadmaps and governance aligned with Southern Company objectives.

You will guide secure, scalable solutions, drive modernization and AI-enabled operations, and collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity,