Project Architect

Project Architect

The Project Architect is responsible for the logical and physical architecture definitions for each assigned project working under the guidance of the Solution Architect and System Architect. This job role collaborates with the business stakeholders, product owner, project management, portfolio architect, domain architects, cyber engineering, and other stakeholders to ensure the architecture aligns with the business requirements and is optimized for the project needs. The Project Architect is responsible for designing the overall system architecture, including the selection of technologies that are supportable, strategically fit, compliant, and patterned oriented that adhere to architecture principles of both Generation and Grid Solutions systems.

Requirements & Qualifications:

· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical major/discipline.

· Seven (7) years of combined experience within information technology, operations, engineering, enterprise architecture, application development, and/or technical related field.

· Three (3) years of hands-on product or project development activities including knowledge of standard System Development Lifecycle models, methodologies, and coding standards.

· Work product delivered in large enterprise systems and in a complex environment (e.g., system-of-systems).

· Collaboration with senior management, executives, and other stakeholders to identify opportunities.

· Creation of high-quality presentations, proposals, statements of work, and assessment deliverables.

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to translate complex technical information and synthesize for senior executive decision-making.

· In-depth understanding of complex computer network designs.

· Broad and in-depth technical understanding of process automation, mainstream products & vendors, and industrial field protocols that run across complex computer networks and control system platforms.

· Master's degree in Computer Science or related engineering field, or Information Management preferred.

· TOGAF certification or other Enterprise Architecture standards or frameworks preferred.

· Electric utility business processes with an emphasis on Transmission and Distribution Engineering and Operations Preferred.

· Control systems, communication networks, cybersecurity technologies, and/or Operational Technologies (OT) preferred.

· Agile methodology, DevOps, and CI/CD preferred.

· Microservices-based architecture.

Coordinate and support the development of solution architecture deliverables and approaches and enforce overall enterprise architecture (EA) solution patterns.

• Create logical and physical architecture deliverables, which include Solution Architecture Definition (SAD), various Design Specifications (xDS), System Requirements Specification (SRS), and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Collaborate with all engineering including cyber early in the planning and design cycles.
• Collaborate with product (portfolio) owners, product managers, architects, and any other product-oriented stakeholders to create a technology architecture to meet the needs of the product strategy.
• Organize and conduct peer reviews of architecture deliverables.
• Create reference architecture and models with design patterns that promote reuse, compliance, and overall technology efficiency.
• Responsible for identifying and potentially resolving technical debt across multiple product lines, ensuring that it is being addressed in a way that balances short-term business needs with long-term architectural priorities.
• Identify and describe multiple solution options to new and maturing business capabilities and able to work with others to understand financial, compliance, and technology impact of solution architecture alternatives.
• Coordinate with Portfolio, Solution, and Enterprise Architect(s) to understand the appropriate business portfolio direction.
• Understand and potentially augment technology domain strategies to ensure that the solution under consideration supports the direction for technology domains.
• Identify, assess, document, and communicate any deviations from EA standards.
• Collaborate with Data and Integration Architect(s) and other solution architects to ensure alignment with data, integration, and infrastructure domains.
• Generate support, critique, and acceptance of proposed solutions.
• Review and potentially influence Test Strategy, Test Plan, and Test Cases to ensure adequate test coverage for the solution.
• Participate in defect resolution process and escalations as required.
• Provide oversight and guidance to technical leads and test leads to ensure that the architecture is adhered to and implemented "as designed."
• Demonstrate accountability for the overall quality of the solution design; not limited to "as designed", but also "as implemented."
• Provide oversight for resolving technical issues that arise during any project phase from construction to post implementation.