IT Senior Enterprise Architect - Security (Hybrid)

Eversource Energy•Westwood, MA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Responsible for leading the development of business aligned strategies that transform the capabilities of the enterprise and guiding the evolution of the enterprise to take advantage of those capabilities. Provide direction and governance processes over the development, evolution, and delivery of enterprise outcomes that span all areas of IT. Specifically, this position will be supporting the IT Security area. Will work across application and technology silos to provide ‘big picture’ leadership and direction to the supporting application and technology teams that results in one cohesive ecosystem working together to achieve the business outcomes. This includes developing, communicating, and maintaining the strategic roadmap of a complex ecosystem that will coordinate across all silos of the individual application and technology roadmaps working together to make up the entire business solution. Other tasks include identifying assessment and testing approaches for the business solution to ensure resiliency characteristics are understood, risk can be mitigated, and the ongoing solution evolves to sit on current and standard platforms. This effort includes leading analysis and design of the technical solution for comprehensive resiliency, disaster recovery, performance of the ecosystem. Operational responsibilities include leading multiple support teams, vendor partners and business partners during critical incidents, scheduled changes or testing initiatives for the entire ecosystem. Requires the ability to identify and escalate issues that will impact the ability to achieve desired enterprise outcomes. Must maintain a relationship with current vendors regarding future direction. Must maintain a close relationship with all domain and business areas to ensure synergy. Must have the ability to develop and lead projects and achieve goals. Must have the ability to work across silos and keep the 'big picture' in focus while making decisions and progress that optimize the enterprise desired outcome. Must be able to maintain an Enterprise perspective even when making tactical decisions and trade-offs.

Requirements

Requires strong IT technology knowledge.
Must have extensive experience with infrastructure and technology (cloud and on premise), business application technical design and implementation, and Enterprise Architecture goals and objectives.
Requires extensive knowledge of systems development methodologies and systems integration methodologies.
Proven experience architecting Disaster recovery solutions and resiliency hosting platforms for business solutions.
Experience with architecture frameworks, processes such as TOGAF and ITIL processes such as Release, Change, Capacity, and Availability.
Minimum of ten (10) years of business and technical experience with at least 2 years in senior level roles related to broad or multiple areas of application, technology, or infrastructure architecture.

Nice To Haves

Application Portfolio Management, Technology Portfolio Management is a plus.
Knowledge of IT Security tools and practices is a plus.
Requires strong interpersonal, communications and presentation skills.
Knowledge of Electric and Gas utility industry a plus.

Responsibilities

Responsible for Enterprise Architecture (EA) deliverables including reference architectures, application guidelines and metrics.
Subject matter expert for the EA tool set and enterprise governance processes
Stays updated and explores the latest relevant technologies to design and implement infrastructure to support innovative IT solutions and new user experiences
Ensures IT solutions fit with the current and planned enterprise architecture and standards.
Works with other team members and other Architect teams to educate and communicate EA practices.
Works with other team members to deliver technical solutions with both client side and server-side functionality.
Works with internal and external customers to define new features.
Works with vendors as required, to deliver technical solutions.
Communicates technical solutions to executive level roles in terms of business outcomes and meeting IT objectives
Ensures that the solution infrastructure is supportable and can be transitioned smoothly into production support organizations.
Provides cross-domain technical consultation services throughout the life of delivered projects.
Assists with complex troubleshooting and coordinates domain experts to solve problems that involve cross-domain issues.
Creates solution architecture documentation throughout the project lifecycle of the solutions.