Lead Product Solutions Architect, OPS

Pattern Energy Group LP • Houston, TX

97d • $118,000 - $160,000

About The Position

The Lead Product Solutions Architect (Lead PSA) serves as the strategic bridge between business vision and technical execution for the HIVE enterprise data and analytics platform. This role exists to ensure that every solution—whether a data pipeline, analytic dashboard, AI model, or integrated workflow—is designed with scalability, governance, and business value at its core. Acting as both architect and advisor, the Lead PSA partners with business leaders to understand their goals, translates them into future-proof technical designs, and ensures solutions are delivered efficiently on the Databricks Lakehouse, Azure, and other enterprise platforms. This position drives the creation of data products that not only meet immediate needs but also enhance trust, quality, and insight generation across the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, Business, or a related field is required.
• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, IoT systems, or product management with a focus on operational data.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence senior stakeholders without direct authority.
• Expertise in python and SQL, Databricks Lakehouse, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure DevOps, and enterprise BI/AI platforms.
• Strong understanding of IoT authentication, networking and authorization (PKI, X.509, mutual TLS).
• Working knowledge of security and compliance standards relevant to energy operations, particularly NERC CIP and SOC 2.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to translate between business and technical audiences.
• Experience working in Agile environments and managing competing priorities.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in a related field or MBA is preferred.
• Experience in the renewable energy sector or a similarly complex, data-rich industry is highly desirable.
• Depth of knowledge regarding SCADA systems, IoT data ingestion, and industrial networking protocols (e.g. Modbus, DNP3, MQTT).
• Familiarity with distributed data platforms (e.g. Spark, Databricks, Kafka) and time-series databases (e.g. InfluxDB & TimescaleDB).
• Experience/Exposure to: Databricks, Azure Data Lake, Power BI, Microsoft Purview, LucidChart/Spark, Monday.com, Azure Synapse, Azure Event Hubs, iPaaS, Boomi, MQTT brokers, Modbus TCP, X.509 PKI, NERC CIP, SOC 2.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of end-to-end data products leveraging the Databricks Lakehouse, Azure Data Lake (bronze/silver/gold layers), and related analytics tools.
• Translate business objectives into technical designs, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, security, compliance, and governance standards.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for complex or cross-domain solutions that require executive-level engagement and prioritization.
• Collaborate with the Platform Leads and Senior Product Manager to ensure solution designs are executable within agreed timelines, budgets, and resourcing plans.
• Partner with other Product Managers and business stakeholders during ideation, roadmap planning, and intake to ensure solutions are aligned with strategic objectives.
• Facilitate workshops and discovery sessions to define requirements, success criteria, and criticality levels for products.
• Advocate for HIVE adoption by demonstrating platform capabilities and communicating value to senior business leaders.
• Enforce governance and best practices, including Data Terms, Schema, and Reference Data, Data Catalog & Business Glossary, Master Data Management (MDM), Metadata & Lineage tracking.
• Ensure adherence to file organization structures within the lake (bronze, silver, gold layers) to maintain quality, accessibility, and scalability.
• Drive data quality processes and partner with the Governance Lead to monitor compliance with standards and policies.
• Mentor Product Solutions Architects across business domains, promoting consistency in design and delivery approaches.
• Champion continuous improvement and innovation within the PSA practice, including reusable design patterns and accelerators.
• Support cross-team knowledge sharing through documentation, showcases, and collaboration tools.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, voluntary benefits, family care benefits, employee assistance program.
• Paid time off and bonding leave, paid holidays.
• 401(k)/RRSP retirement savings plan with employer contribution.
• Employee referral bonuses.
• Bonus structure for full-time employees of all levels, potentially ranging from zero to 35% of base salary.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees