Senior Manager, IT Solution Planning & Delivery (AMI 2.0 Program)

Southern California Edison (SCE); Rosemead (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Southern California Edison is pursuing a Senior Manager, IT Solution Planning & Delivery (AMI 2.0) to lead IT system integration for 5M+ smart meters across SCE’s service area. You will drive architecture, back-office modernization, and analytics initiatives while coordinating with vendors and stakeholders to deliver resilient, scalable IT solutions.

Ideal candidates bring senior PM leadership, portfolio strategy expertise, and experience with enterprise IT projects, ERP deployments, and hybrid

Qualifications

• Five+ years of supervising a team and managing projects.
• Experience creating long-term IT vision and roadmaps.
• Experience in technical leadership of project portfolio planning.
• Master’s degree or higher in Engineering, CS, Economics, MBA, or related field.
• Experience delivering enterprise IT solutions including ERP implementations.
• 3+ years IT portfolio or product line management.
• Familiarity with Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid-Agile methods.
• Leadership across scope, schedule, budget, risks, and resources.
• Experience managing large system integrators.
• Utility industry/AMI/grid tech experience.

Responsibilities

• Develops long-term vision and strategic roadmap for the project management competency.
• Cultivates relationships with business partners and vendors to achieve operational excellence.
• Directs project portfolio planning and ongoing optimization of resources.
• Enhances program increment planning, dependency management, and synchronization of Agile release trains.
• Promotes collaboration between project teams to share knowledge, align architecture, and standardize processes.
• Provides coaching and mentoring to project managers on Agile principles.
• Drives initiatives to improve team velocity, defect rates, and sprint burndown metrics.
• Protecting assets and data per security standards and compliance.

Skills

Team leadership

Strategic roadmapping

Portfolio management

IT leadership

Education

Master’s degree in Engineering/CS/Economics/MBA

Job description

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Southern California Edison’s Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) 2.0 Program is a transformational initiative that is modernizing the company’s metering, communications, and data capabilities to support the evolving energy landscape. This enterprise-wide program will replace and support more than 5.7 million meters across SCE’s service territory while advancing the technology and systems that power a smarter, more connected grid. AMI 2.0 brings together professionals across engineering, technology, operations, cybersecurity, customer service, and program management to deliver innovative solutions that enhance grid reliability, improve operational efficiency, and strengthen the customer experience. Employees who support AMI 2.0 will have the opportunity to contribute to a high-impact program that is helping shape the future of energy delivery and enabling Southern California’s transition to a more resilient, intelligent, and sustainable electric grid.

Become a Senior Manager, IT Solution Planning & Delivery (AMI 2.0 Program) at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll lead a team in the integration and implementation of IT systems in the support of the deployment and operations of 5M+ smart meters across SCE’s service territory. This end-to-end AMI network encompasses the meter edge device, communications network, multiple Back Office systems, and analytics capabilities. You’ll manage relationships with key stakeholders within SCE, along with third-party product vendors and system integrator partners, in the delivery of this next-generation technology.

Responsibilities

• Develops long-term vision and strategic roadmap for the project management competency.
• Cultivates relationships with business partners and vendors to achieve operational excellence. Drives adoption of innovative project management methodologies and approaches.
• Directs project portfolio planning and ongoing optimization of resources to advance key initiatives.
• Enhances program increment planning, dependency management, and synchronization of Agile release trains.
• Promotes collaboration between project teams to share knowledge, reuse code, align architecture, and standardize processes.
• Provides coaching and mentoring to project managers on Agile principles, removing impediments, and evolving practices.
• Drives initiatives to improve team velocity trends, defect rates, and sprint burndown metrics to mitigate risk.
• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Minimum Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience supervising a team of direct reports and/or project management.
• Experience developing long-term vision and strategic roadmaps for IT projects.
• Experience in technical leadership of project portfolio planning and ongoing optimization of resources.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, Economics, Business Administration, or another relevant field.
• Demonstrated experience delivering or overseeing enterprise IT solutions, including smart meter system implementation, enterprise system modernization, digital transformation programs, or large, complex ERP implementations.
• Three (3) or more years of experience IT portfolio management or product line management.
• Demonstrated experience using various project delivery methodologies, including Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid-Agile.
• Oversight and leadership of scope, schedule, budget, issues & risks, and people / resource management.
• Demonstrated experience managing large systems integrators.
• Utility industry experience, ideally including grid technologies, over-the-air network communications, and AMI (advanced metering infrastructure) – in particular with regards to meter data management and meter-to-cash capabilities.
• Project Management and / or Agile Certification. Demonstrated interpersonal and leadership skills collaborating with teams consisting of members across a variety of departments and disciplines.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills as well as presentation skills to effectively communicate and interact with personnel at all levels, including executive management.

Additional Information

• This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
• Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!
• Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
• The primary work location for this position is Rosemead, CA.
• Position will require up to 20% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.

About Southern California Edison

The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.

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