Senior OT Architect for Real-Time Industrial Systems

Xcel Energy Inc; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 156,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Xcel Energy is seeking a Principal IT Architect for Operational Technology to lead architectural decisions for mission-critical OT platforms across the enterprise. You will align technology roadmaps with reliability, security, and regulatory requirements while guiding cross-functional teams.

In this role you will define platform roadmaps, govern architecture, and ensure safe integration of real-time data, telemetry, and automation across OT systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 4 years related experience.
• Ten years of related functional experience.
• Excellent communication and relationship management across organizations.
• Strong enterprise architecture knowledge across multiple domains.
• Expertise in architecture review and lifecycle management.
• Experience leading project delivery and roadmapping.

Responsibilities

• Provide domain architectural leadership for mission-critical platforms.
• Develop technology strategies supporting reliability, cybersecurity, compliance, and long-term sustainability.
• Create and maintain roadmaps guiding capability evolution and modernization.
• Lead and influence architecture discussions spanning multiple platforms and domains.
• Review solution architectures for alignment with enterprise strategy and governance.
• Drive architecture governance to improve design quality and sustainability.
• Provide architectural leadership for integrations across OT, data, cloud, and partners.
• Guide decisions on real-time data exchange, telemetry, and complex integrations.
• Define integration patterns and security standards to reduce complexity.
• Identify and address architectural risks impacting reliability and security.
• Advocate security-by-design and operational readiness across lifecycle.
• Ensure monitoring and observability are built into designs.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Cross-domain knowledge

Security architecture

Enterprise architecture

Communication

Relationship management

Education

Bachelor's degree or 4 years related experience

Tools

TOGAF

SOA

Data analytics platforms

Job description

Xcel Energy is seeking a Principal IT Architect for Operational Technology to lead architectural decisions for mission-critical OT platforms across the enterprise. You will align technology roadmaps with reliability, security, and regulatory requirements while guiding cross-functional teams.

In this role you will define platform roadmaps, govern architecture, and ensure safe integration of real-time data, telemetry, and automation across OT systems.