Portfolio Architect - Distribution Field Services and Mobility

American Electric Power•Gahanna, OH

4d•$116,255 - $151,133

About The Position

The Portfolio Architect serves as the senior architecture leader for the Distribution Field Services and Mobility portfolio, connecting business strategy, operational capabilities, technology investments, and delivery. The role maintains coherent current-state, target-state, and transition architectures across the portfolio and partners with business and technology leadership to shape strategy, inform investment decisions, improve application and technology health, reduce duplication and technical debt, and guide initiatives toward an agreed future state. The role applies Enterprise Architecture standards and guardrails while providing practical architectural direction to solution architects, engineering teams, product teams, and major programs. It is accountable for architecture coherence and direction across the portfolio; delivery execution remains the responsibility of the relevant project, product, engineering, and operational teams.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field.
Eight years of relevant work experience; an equivalent combination of education and related experience may be considered.
Demonstrated experience developing architecture across multiple applications, platforms, data domains, integrations, and delivery teams.
Ability to connect business capabilities, operational processes, technology investments, and architecture roadmaps.
Experience with application portfolio management, application rationalization, technical-debt analysis, lifecycle management, and modernization planning.
Strong understanding of architecture governance, reference architectures, standards, exception management, and architecture decision records.
Ability to assess complex options across business value, cost, risk, resilience, security, supportability, and long-term sustainability.
Experience guiding architects and engineering teams without assuming ownership of project or product delivery.
Ability to influence senior business and technology leaders through clear options, recommendations, roadmaps, and tradeoff analysis.

Nice To Haves

Experience operating in regulated, safety-sensitive, asset-intensive, or utility environments.
Experience with enterprise architecture repositories and application portfolio management platforms, including LeanIX or comparable tools.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain current-state, target-state, and transition architectures covering business capabilities, applications, data, integrations, platforms, infrastructure, security, resilience, and operational dependencies.
Create and maintain a multi-year portfolio architecture roadmap covering modernization, consolidation, migration, rationalization, technical-debt reduction, and capability-enablement priorities.
Connect business outcomes and operational capabilities to technology strategy in partnership with business and technology leaders.
Lead Application Portfolio Management for the assigned portfolio using LeanIX and other authoritative sources to assess applications and recommend strategic disposition.
Identify portfolio duplication, fragmentation, obsolete or unsupported technology, integration complexity, resilience gaps, and security risks, and develop prioritized remediation recommendations.
Provide architectural input to six-quarter planning, demand intake, capital planning, and investment prioritization, communicating options, dependencies, costs, risks, tradeoffs, and expected business outcomes.
Ensure significant initiatives align with portfolio roadmaps, enterprise standards, reference architectures, approved platforms, security requirements, and regulatory obligations.
Participate in architecture governance, including reviews, standards discussions, technology evaluations, exception decisions, and escalation of unresolved risks.
Guide solution architects and delivery teams in translating portfolio direction into implementable solution architectures aligned with the target state.
Coordinate cross-portfolio and cross-domain architecture decisions, including dependencies on asset management, work management, GIS, customer systems, data and integration platforms, cybersecurity, cloud, and operational technology.
Maintain architecture information and decision traceability in LeanIX and other approved repositories.
Establish architecture outcomes and measures, including application-duplication reduction, obsolete-technology retirement, critical-risk remediation, approved-pattern adoption, improved portfolio-data quality, and progress toward target-state capabilities.
Mentor and provide architectural direction to solution architects, domain architects, engineers, and technical leaders.
Communicate architecture decisions and portfolio direction in business, operational, financial, risk, and technical terms appropriate to relevant audiences.