Integration/Application Architect SR (Hybrid)

About the position

At ERCOT, our diverse and dynamic work environment provides a platform on which employees can work together to build the future of the Texas power grid and wholesale market utilizing the latest technologies and resources. We encourage you to join our talented, dedicated workforce to develop world-class solutions for today and tomorrow's energy challenges while learning new skills and growing your career. ERCOT is committed to fostering inclusion at all levels of our company. It is the cornerstone of our corporate values of accountability, leadership, innovation, trust, and expertise. We know that individuals with a wide variety of talents, ideas, and experiences propel the innovation that drives our success. An inclusive and diverse workforce strengthens us and allows for a collaborative environment to solve the challenges that face our industry today and in the future. As a member of our collaborative IT team, you will encounter cutting edge technology systems and solutions that run the electric power grid and wholesale markets within the state of Texas. You will use your creativity and technical expertise to implement industry leading IT solutions that will help shape the future of the global electric utility industry.

Responsibilities

• Broadly applies principles, theories and concepts related to the profession.
• May provide recommendations regarding issues outside the bounds of defined procedures and practices.
• Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Acts as a resource to advise and may at times lead the work of lower level professional and/or support employees.
• Generally, represents the department on projects and may perform in a project leadership role.
• Applies in-depth knowledge of business and IT to validate the cost-benefit analysis of IT initiatives.
• Partners with Enterprise Architecture to align Technology strategies with Business strategies to ensure system reliability and efficiency.
• Refines technical requirements around resilience, recoverability, performance and long-term care and maintenance of systems throughout their lifecycle.
• Partners with peers, IT Operations, Application Development, Project delivery and end-users to develop solutions that fulfill functional and technical requirements.
• Educates IT and business groups on ERCOT's enterprise-wide approach to IT solutions and integration opportunities.
• Acts as IT's interface to Business with regards to IT strategy and technology with an emphasis on defining requirements, synergies, and value.
• Works closely with business and IT leaders to communicate IT Architecture and demonstrate IT's value to the corporation.
• Works on moderately complex issues where analysis of situations requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
• Creates Deployment, Integration Architecture models for the solution.
• Creates the Nonfunctional Requirements for the projects.
• Create Architecture Vision document for any new initiative.
• Develops and articulates architectural decisions that concisely state the rationale for the recommended architectural approach and alternatives that were considered.
• Updates the ERCOT Reference Architecture to reflect the current and future states of the technology products and patterns allowed to be used for solution development.
• Advises, recommends, and justifies critical architecture decisions to management and senior staff.
• Directs the development, implementation, and continual use of ERCOT IT standards by leading the EA Working Group.
• Seeks out and builds beneficial working relationships to influence technology decisions within IT and with key stakeholders.
• Serves as a Subject Matter Expert in one or more domains and provides guidance to others.
• May schedule work, train, mentor, and/or coach other employees.
• Conveys team goals effectively through strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Works on complex issues where analysis of situations requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
• Provides expertise regarding the integration of applications across the business.
• Develops end-to-end solutions to include people, process and technology.
• Acts as an internal consultant, advocate, mentor and change agent.

Requirements

• Requires minimum 2 years related work experience as an Architecture Practitioner for Level 2.
• Requires experience in using a metamodel-based architecture tool (Sparx EA, Orbus iServer, MEGA, Rational System Architect, Troux).
• Required previous experience delivering multiple end-to-end solutions and has provided oversight for these solutions through the entire lifecycle - inception, planning, design, implementation, operational turnover, patch/maintenance, decommissioning for Level 2.
• Requires minimum 5 years related work experience as an Architecture Practitioner for Senior Level.
• Requires experience in using a metamodel-based architecture tool (Sparx EA, Orbus iServer, MEGA, Rational System Architect, Troux) for Senior Level.
• Required previous experience delivering multiple end-to-end solutions and has provided oversight for these solutions through the entire lifecycle - inception, planning, design, implementation, operational turnover, patch/maintenance, decommissioning for Senior Level.

Nice-to-haves

• Requires experience developing and delivering Architecture and designs for Software solutions.
• Requires experience in software development and coding in various languages (Java, Python, SQL, etc.).
• Requires Excellent knowledge of UML and other modeling methods.
• Preferred experience designing reusable frameworks and libraries.
• Preferred experience designing using Spring framework components and Spring Boot.
• Preferred experience delivering solutions using modern delivery practices built including but not limited to Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Ansible.
• Preferred experience delivering solutions in AWS and/or Azure.
• Required experience with programmatic interaction of various APIs (SOAP/XML, REST/JSON, XML, XSLT, XPath).
• Requires Familiarity with HTML/CSS, JavaScript and UI/UX design.
• Requires excellent communication and presentation abilities.
• Preferred experience in the Electric Utility industry.

Benefits

• 401k
• health_insurance
• dental_insurance
• vision_insurance
• life_insurance
• disability_insurance
• paid_holidays
• paid_volunteer_time
• tuition_reimbursement
• professional_development