About the position
Individual will work with various Information Technology (IT) and business teams to enhance and optimize the company's IT portfolio by providing strong technical direction on IT's short and long-term strategies. Individual will influence IT's technical standards through collaboration with Enterprise Architecture and ensure that the standards are being implemented consistently. Individual will also drive the direction of the technology modernization program through collaboration with IT's architects and systems managers. Individual will participate in benchmarks with leading utilities and cross-industry experts. Individual must be expert in a wide range of technologies, providing valuable insights, knowledge, and direction on the architecture and engineering of IT's applications and platforms. Individual must be a thought leader, successfully and productively collaborating with the various business areas and IT teams to support the business priorities of the company while executing the IT strategy and vision. Individual will provide mentorship to aspiring IT Solutions Delivery Solutions Engineers and Junior Solutions Engineers.
Responsibilities
- Drives the solution engineering around one or more technology domains (e.g. application, data, advanced technologies, Software As A Service, Operating Systems, Mobility, etc) &/or business process engineering.
- Directs the development and evaluation of roadmaps for applications, technologies and infrastructure, including vendor and internally developed applications.
- Collaborates with peers; researches, establishes and updates technical standards; manages application development lifecycle and methodologies, provides oversight on processes and other governance responsibilities.
- Monitors the IT & business industry as well as best practices; develops strategies for implementation.
- Communicates & influences strategic direction & can represent IT at senior executive level.
- Provides guidance and/or conducts architectural, configuration, solution & quality reviews.
- Takes the lead on issues requiring coordination with all internal IT groups and other organizations, including vendors to ensure that issues are addressed.
- Leads large teams in the development of new/enhanced IT products from project initiation through user acceptance and implementation.
- Manages vendor resources to deliver high quality deliverables according to agreed upon timeframes and costs.
- Develops staff as needed; research/provide recommendation on technical training, evaluates/provides feedback for skill development of junior technical staff.
- Ensures alignment of technology solutions with IT standards, documentation requirements and guiding principles.
- Manage projects including but not limited to resources, scope, budget (costs), schedule & overall project plans.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree and a minimum 8 years experience designing, developing, implementing, and operating technologies in one or more IT domains.
- Master's Degree and a minimum 6 years experience designing, developing, implementing, and operating technologies in one or more IT domains.
- A minimum of five years leadership or managerial experience.
- Solid understanding of architectural concepts and practices leading to solutions that are reliable, maintainable, reusable, scalable and extensible.
- Strong emotional intelligence (empathy, self-knowledge).
- Ability to persuade and collaborate through influencing, listening, acting on feedback, balanced exploration of alternatives and building relationships.
- Agile learners and demonstrate continuous self-development.
- High energy and a passion for customers.
- Experience managing, coaching and developing new or lesser-experienced team members.
- Experience with guiding business or technology managers towards architecturally sound decisions.
- Experience presenting concise, jargon-free, easy-to-understand technical topics to executives.
- Experience with writing or modifying standards and procedures, templates or toolkits.
- Experience working with peers to develop new reference architectures, tools, methods to be adopted by the IT organization.
- Conversant in emerging technologies and practices, e.g. Big Data/Analytics, Cloud (SaaS, PaaS), mobile, sensors (Internet of Things).
- Must be flexible and able to work off-hours as required to support deployments, resolve production problems or respond to corporate emergencies.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience identifying and vetting vendor products, including developing requests for proposal, vendor research and proposal evaluation.
- Experience participating on multi-disciplinary review boards.
Benefits
- Driver's License Required
