Principal Architect, Power Generation & PowerGas Trading

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Job Summary

The Principal Application Architect will be responsible for managing Application and Solution Architecture Services the Cloud Strategy planning and execution. Also responsible for gaining cost efficiencies across the IT landscape and then take those lessons and apply to Business. Drive adoption of Automation processes and tools Enterprise wide.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

Experience supporting North American Power & Gas Trading environments.

Oversee the architecture and platforms for all applications and information architecture.

Background with both custom solutions and COTS trading tools (e.g. market connectivity ETRM platforms analytics ).

Engage business unit leaders to define technology solutions and roadmaps in their domain

Define the Guiding Principles Standards and Roadmap for all applications

Design and solution infrastructure and cloud architecture to meet business requirements while complying to technology standards

Define and communicate the Enterprise Architecture and Tech Governance Practice including: Principles Models Standards Best Practices and the roles and responsibilities of the architecture community

Knowledge of ISO/RTO markets trade lifecycle processes and real time market operations.

Drive a culture of accountability communication clarity and collaboration with specific focus on business value return on investment and cost management.

Recommend implement manage and maintain the technology platforms that enable Digital Labor

Create and maintain a reference architecture that enforces standards guidelines and leading practices

Lead support and guide counselees within the Digital Labor Center of Excellence and increase competency of Automation Engineers

Education Experience & Skill Requirements

8 years minimum; 12 years preferred

5 years experience managing/supervising teams

Working knowledge of technology best practices methodologies and processes (e.g. ISO 9000 ITIL Cloud Agile Scrum DevOps TOGAF).

Working knowledge of relevant project and program management concepts and techniques.

Experience gained through college degree programs and/or certifications is applicable to above skills

Key Metrics

Project/program benefits realization and business customer satisfaction with delivered change.

Team member engagement across technology department

Tools adoption and usage where appropriate

Ensuring that the IT organization is effectively meeting the goals and objectives of the corporation.

Providing a consistent and efficient operating model adhering to the established fiscal controls and meeting or exceeding the defined key performance indicators.

Identifying areas for improvement that will result in reduced operating or capital expense.

Identifying areas for automation that will result in increased operational efficiency and decreased operational cost.

• Energy & Utilities Domain US Power Trading/Commercial experience (ERCOT/PJM/MISO/SPP). Day-ahead/real-time bidding forward curves CRRs ETRM commercial optimization. Plant-side systems (PI GADS CEMS Maximo)

• Cloud-Native Data Lake & Market Data Architecture Delivered unified data lakes ingesting commodity feeds (ICE/CME) ISO pricing/LMPs forward curves (ZEMA/Morningstar/Platts) historians and ETRM. ISO data extraction across major RTOs. Enterprise integration (MuleSoft Active MQ Rabbit MQ) with event-driven/batch/CDC patterns. AWS pipelines (Glue Step Functions Lambda MWAA Kinesis) and consumption layers (Athena Redshift Lake Formation). Sound build-vs-buy judgment.

• AWS Architecture & Strategy Enterprise architecture for event-driven pipelines (Lambda Step Functions Event Bridge Kinesis MSK) AI/ML (Bedrock SageMaker) multi-database (RDS Aurora DynamoDB Redshift Fabric). Delivers reference implementations ADRs and governance not just diagrams.

• Polyglot Technical Leadership & Execution Leads by building: Java/Spring Boot Python Groovy complex multi-engine SQL modern web frameworks. Technical decision-maker across concurrent workstreams unblocks teams tactically (code reviews design sessions) while driving strategy (roadmaps platform evolution). Working architect who mentors stays code-current and owns decisions and consequences.

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Job Family

Information Technology

Company

Vistra Corporate Services Company

Locations

Irving Texas

Texas

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