Senior Solutions Architect — Enterprise & Transformation

Pacific Gas and Electric Company; Oakland, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 238,000; Full time

Job summary

Pacific Gas and Electric Company is seeking an experienced architect to bridge business architecture with enterprise architecture, documenting as-is and to-be states across major programs. The role requires orchestrating across domains, ensuring standards-based solutions, and guiding teams from design to operations in a hybrid work model.

The Bay Area context influences compensation and benefits. Ideal candidates have strong communication, multi-disciplinary collaboration, and a track record of

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business or related field or equivalent experience.
• 7 years experience in Information Technology.
• 4 years of solution architecture and project implementation experience in Asset Investment Planning (Copperleaf or equivalent), ERP (SAP or equivalent), or GIS.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business, technology, and enterprise architecture stakeholders to understand current-state capabilities and define future-state solution needs across major transformational programs.
• Acts as the primary technical lead in deploying Copperleaf in support of the Integrated Planning workstream of Propel.
• Develop end-to-end solution architecture across applications, data, integrations, infrastructure, security, and business processes.
• Create and maintain architecture artifacts, including current-state and target-state views, solution diagrams, roadmaps, and decision records.
• Ensure proposed solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, cybersecurity requirements, regulatory needs, and PG&E business objectives.
• Evaluate technology options and recommend solutions that are sustainable, adaptable, cost-effective, and operationally supportable.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to project teams through design, delivery, testing, implementation, and transition to operations.
• Identify architecture risks, dependencies, gaps, and trade-offs, and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Support governance reviews, architecture approvals, and stakeholder decision-making while staying current on emerging technologies and industry best practices.
• Address complex problems that span functions and may manage projects or initiatives that are high complexity and risk.
• Is comfortable owning the outcome and has the courage to share unpopular viewpoints

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Stakeholder influence

Cloud platforms

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering or Business

Tools

TOGAF

Zachman

DODAF

CISSP

ITIL

AWS

Azure

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Pacific Gas and Electric Company is seeking an experienced architect to bridge business architecture with enterprise architecture, documenting as-is and to-be states across major programs. The role requires orchestrating across domains, ensuring standards-based solutions, and guiding teams from design to operations in a hybrid work model.

The Bay Area context influences compensation and benefits. Ideal candidates have strong communication, multi-disciplinary collaboration, and a track record of