Enterprise Architect - Asset Management

SEDAA•San Francisco, CA

2d•$200,000 - $220,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Enterprise Architect, Principal - Utility Asset Management role is a full-time, direct hire position within the Information Technology department. This role is hybrid, requiring 1-2 days per week in the Oakland, CA office, with the rest of the time worked remotely. The IT department is responsible for designing, developing, operating, and maintaining information and telecommunications systems to support the company's mission. The successful candidate will possess strong analytical, project management, leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with deep expertise in various technologies and platforms. Experience in the utility industry is highly desirable. Reporting to the Lead Enterprise Architect, this role involves developing the architecture vision for business domains, understanding business processes, application portfolios, and IT infrastructure, and suggesting technology investments. The role also includes creating business architecture models, owning application portfolios, developing enterprise strategy, building prioritized backlogs, enabling execution teams with architectural guidance, and coaching implementation teams.

Requirements

BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business or a related subject or equivalent experience
10 years of enterprise architecture experience
Experience in Utilities with focus areas such as: Asset and Risk Management (Inspections, Enabling AI/ML for Asset Management, Risk Management, Analytics & Reporting)
Master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Business, or a related field
Architecture implementation experience with technologies in SAP, GIS, Enterprise Reporting and Analytics specific to Asset Management, AI Implementation in Asset Risk Management domain
Excellent Communication and Interpersonal skills
High-energy, passionate, and positive outlook with strong sense of ownership
Familiarity with diverse application development technologies and platforms
Good understanding of business and data architecture, business capability mapping, and business process reengineering
Solution architecture and project implementation experience
Relevant architecture certification such as TOGAF

Nice To Haves

Experience working with or in the utility industry is highly desirable but not required.

Responsibilities

Partner with senior business and IT leadership to develop technology roadmaps for Asset Management (Inspections, Risk Management, Analytics & Reporting, Digital Twins)
Collaborate with business to enable their future goals by leveraging AI/ML/Gen AI technology
Assess current IT application environment for asset and risk domain and develop future IT target architecture.
Lead vendor assessments, support RFPs, and application rationalization efforts.
Support IT strategic planning and portfolio modernization process.
Coordinate roadmaps across enterprise groups to manage conflicts, redundancies, and interdependencies.
Collaborate with domain enterprise architects to ensure strategies, standards, design patterns, and roadmaps are consistent and integrated.
Support project delivery and provide enterprise architecture view to support solution designs.
Stay updated with developments in AI, edge computing, and other emerging industry segments.
Be a self-starter, able to solve complex issues with cross-functional teams, and thrive in a fast-moving, agile environment.