Principal Enterprise Architect

Principal Enterprise Architect

Join us in building a better future for Arizona! SRP is one of the largest public power and water utilities in the U.S. providing electricity to approximately one million customers in the greater metropolitan Phoenix area. Since its founding in 1903, SRP has fostered a culture of stewardship and customer service consistently ranking as an industry leader in customer service according to J.D. Power and named one of Arizona's best employers by Forbes. SRP continues to adapt to its changing business environment by seeking innovative ways to reimagine utility service and the provision of critical resources essential to the life and economy of Arizona.

Why Work at SRP At SRP, we foster an inclusive work environment and believe everyone should have a fair chance to work, regardless of who they are. That's why we value teams with diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds to help SRP deliver on its mission of providing reliable, affordable and sustainable water and power. SRP's success is rooted in our employees' happiness, health, and safety. That's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to meet the needs of our employees and enhance their well-being. In addition to competitive pay and performance incentives, eligible employees can take advantage of the following benefits: Pension Plan (at no cost to the employee) 401(k) plan with employer matching Available your first day: Medical, vision, dental, and life insurance Over 200+ hours of PTO (includes vacation days, holidays, floating holidays, and sick leave) Parental leave (up to 4 weeks) and adoption assistance Wellness programs (including access to a recreation and fitness facility) Short and long-term disability plans Tuition assistance for both undergraduate and graduate programs 10 Employee Resource Groups for career development, community service, and networking

Summary The Enterprise Architect position, within the Architecture & Governance Services team, provides leadership and vision for SRP's technology strategy, architecture, and governance. Enterprise Architects work closely with business organizations to solve complex business challenges and align technology investments to business outcomes. They possess broad technology and architectural expertise, along with the ability to develop an understanding of business capabilities and strategic objectives, enabling them to guide decision-making, shape technology direction, and help ensure technology capabilities support the organization's goals. This role plays a key part in bringing together multiple architectural disciplines to create a cohesive enterprise perspective that connects organizational strategy to execution through portfolios, programs, and projects. The Enterprise Architect understands and communicates the enterprise vision to the architecture community and project delivery teams, providing guidance and influence that promotes alignment, consistency, and adoption of architectural best practices across the organization. The Enterprise Architect proactively supports enterprise transformation and optimization initiatives by helping formulate business and technology strategy, supporting roadmaps, and promoting alignment across portfolios, programs, and solutions. This role takes an enterprise-wide perspective to help achieve desired business outcomes while optimizing costs, mitigating risks, and improving the speed and effectiveness of technology delivery. Acting as a trusted advisor to business and technology leaders, the Enterprise Architect helps ensure solutions, resources, and investments work together cohesively to advance SRP's strategic goals.

What You'll Do Partner with business and technology leaders to define and maintain technology strategy, aligning technology capabilities and investments with business objectives. Apply Business Architecture practices to understand business capabilities, identify transformation opportunities, and guide technology strategy and investment decisions. Define and maintain enterprise architecture strategy, technology policies, and technology standards in partnership with Domain Architects and technology stakeholders. Develop and maintain enterprise frameworks, reference architectures, reusable patterns, and technology strategies to guide solution design and technology decisions. Lead research efforts on emerging technologies and recommend strategies for new technology adoption. Evaluate current and emerging technologies, applying industry best practices to support business roadmaps and technology planning. Monitor and evaluate vendor product roadmaps to identify impacts, risks, and opportunities that inform SRP's technology vision and strategy. Support the creation of roadmaps, creation of emerging technology radars, and other artifacts to guide leadership in making technology investment decisions. Guide major technology decisions by evaluating options, trade-offs, risks, and business impacts. Support portfolio planning and investment decisions with architectural insight. Monitor the current-state technology portfolio to identify risks, deficiencies, technical debt, aging technologies, and misalignment with business requirements. Participate in governance and oversight bodies across SRP, including the Architecture Review Board and SRP Technology Governance. Ensure technology standards support privacy, resiliency, access control, and data protection. Translating complex security requirements into clear, actionable guidance for delivery teams. Provide architectural guidance and industry best practices to support the design and delivery of business-aligned technology solutions for complex business needs. Support Domain and Solution Architects in delivering standards-based designs and best practices. Promote architecture principles, standards, and technology best practices across technical delivery teams. Facilitate knowledge sharing, collaboration, and the exchange of lessons learned across the architecture community.

Education A bachelor's degree relevant to the assignment from an accredited institution is preferred. Experience Minimum 10 years of relevant experience is required. In lieu of a degree, 14 years of relevant experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience totaling 14 years may be considered.

Additional Requirements and Qualifications Ability to effectively communicate with and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization. The ability to evaluate technology decisions in the context of business capabilities, organizational priorities, and enterprise goals. Experience participating in large-scale business and technology transformation initiatives. Experience applying Business Architecture concepts such as business capabilities, value streams, and operating models. Experience developing enterprise frameworks, reference architectures, technology strategies, and roadmaps supporting complex technology portfolios. Ability to translate strategic direction into technology policies and standards, frameworks, and implementation guidance. Understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks and methodologies such as TOGAF and Zachman. Broad technical depth across multiple domains (e.g. enterprise systems, cloud platforms, data and analytics, infrastructure, networking, applications, and operational technologies). Experience designing and guiding the delivery of technology solutions across information technology and operational technology environments. Understanding of project delivery methodologies and lifecycles, including Agile and Waterfall approaches. Experience aligning architecture decisions with cyber security, regulatory, and audit requirements. Team leadership, coaching, collaboration, and mentoring experience on multiple teams and projects. Strong organizational, planning, prioritization, and time management skills.

Hybrid Workplace SRP currently offers a hybrid workplace, which allows employees whose jobs can be performed remotely, and who have sufficient technical capability, to telework up to three days per week. Although teleworking is available, all employees must live and work in Arizona. Drug/Alcohol Policy Statement To promote the safety and well-being of our employees, customers, and the communities we serve, SRP is committed to maintaining a drug/alcohol free work environment. Although marijuana may now be legal in Arizona, except as otherwise specified under Arizona law, SRP considers it to be an illegal drug for the purpose of our drug/alcohol policy because marijuana remains illegal at the federal level. Any candidate found to be impaired during the hiring process or who has the presence of an illegal drug or unauthorized substance in their system during the pre-employment drug/alcohol test may be disqualified from further consideration in the hiring process. Equal Opportunity Employer Statement Salt River Project (SRP) is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military status, or any other protected status under applicable federal, state or local law. Work Authorization All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Currently, SRP does not sponsor H1B visas, OPT, or other employment-related visa's.