Strategic Data Platform & Analytics Architect

Pacific Gas and Electric Company; Oakland, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

Pacific Gas and Electric Company is seeking an Enterprise Architect focused on Data Platform & Analytics. You will define target architectures, roadmaps, and reusable patterns for enterprise-scale data platforms supporting analytical and AI-driven use cases.

The role emphasizes systems thinking, governance, and collaboration with delivery and operations teams to ensure secure, executable solutions. Hybrid work with 1–2 days/week at Oakland HQ is offered.

Qualifications

• Strong communication and facilitation skills.
• Experience designing or governing modern data platforms, lakehouse architectures, data pipelines, analytics consumption layers, data products, streaming, or AI-ready data capabilities.
• Experience translating strategy into target architectures, standards, roadmaps, reusable patterns, and practical delivery guidance.
• Experience writing code and modern software delivery practices, including automated testing, CI/CD, code quality, and performance engineering.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve target architecture for Data Platform & Analytics platform and shared services, guiding investment and modernization decisions.
• Translate enterprise IT strategy into capability-based roadmaps and sequencing from current to target state.
• Own architecture outcomes across a portfolio of foundational platforms, ensuring alignment from strategy through implementation and operations.
• Define data platform governance, data ingestion, transformation, storage, serving, and data product patterns across analytics use cases.
• Architect end-to-end data pipelines, including ingestion, transformation, orchestration, quality controls, metadata, lineage, and reusable data movement patterns.

Skills

Communication skills

Strategy translation

Architectural governance

Software delivery practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Business or related

Master’s degree in related field

TOGAF certification or equivalent

Job description

Pacific Gas and Electric Company is seeking an Enterprise Architect focused on Data Platform & Analytics. You will define target architectures, roadmaps, and reusable patterns for enterprise-scale data platforms supporting analytical and AI-driven use cases.

The role emphasizes systems thinking, governance, and collaboration with delivery and operations teams to ensure secure, executable solutions. Hybrid work with 1–2 days/week at Oakland HQ is offered.