Prin Enterprise Architect (Cloud)

Consumers Energy•Jackson, MI

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Principal Enterprise Architect develops enterprise-level strategic business and technology solutions and collaborates with technical specialists to design and define strategic solutions. The role requires in-depth knowledge of business applications, application development methodologies, database principles and techniques, and hardware and software operating systems. The Principal Enterprise Architect works across the enterprise and at all organizational levels to align long-term technology and application strategies with long-term business objectives. The role applies a strategic, long-term vision to strengthen business and technology alignment, helps shape future business direction, and partners with business and technology stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes in accordance with governance expectations. This role researches, develops, documents, and analyzes enterprise, operational, and system architectures; prepares architecture materials and recommendations; and guides enterprise architecture planning and implementation. It also defines and governs cloud architecture strategies, principles, standards, and reference architectures across public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. The position provides architectural leadership for cloud adoption and application modernization, and partners with security, infrastructure, application, data, and engineering teams on cloud governance and architecture guardrails. This is a hybrid position with required onsite work Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday at One Energy Plaza in Jackson, Michigan. The selected candidate must live within commuting distance or be willing to relocate; relocation assistance is available for those who qualify. The position is not eligible for current or future immigration sponsorship, including H-1B or TN, and is not eligible for CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Enterprise Architecture, Technology, or a related field, and at least 7 years of experience performing enterprise architecture work; or an associate degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, and at least 9 years of such experience; or a high school diploma or GED and at least 11 years of such experience.
Familiarity with graphical modeling approaches, tools, and model repositories.
Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven architecture, and predictive analytics.
Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
Comprehensive knowledge of holistic enterprise architecture components and principles.
Experience developing and presenting business cases for infrastructure investments.
Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT service management, Agile and Lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and enterprise architecture and ITIL frameworks.
Excellent written, verbal communication, and presentation skills, including the ability to explain complex ideas clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.
Knowledge of business engineering principles and processes.
Must be within commuting distance of One Energy Plaza in Jackson, Michigan, or willing to relocate.
Must not require current or future immigration sponsorship for a work visa; the position is not eligible for CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT.

Responsibilities

Research, develop, document, and analyze enterprise, operational, and system architectures.
Prepare and publish formal architecture documents, plans, and reports, and present recommendations and proposed actions to stakeholders through white papers, briefings, and other materials.
Partner with business leaders to define and enable future-state business capabilities that support targeted business outcomes and inform strategic investment decisions.
Assess disruptive forces affecting the organization and identify technology-enabled innovation opportunities that support business strategy.
Evaluate technology trends in the context of social, economic, political, and other nontechnology trends, and analyze relationships among the enterprise’s people, processes, information, technologies, assets, and external environment.
Facilitate strategic decision-making in response to disruptive forces and provide business leaders with actionable recommendations on initiatives and policies supporting targeted outcomes.
Research, develop, document, and analyze enterprise architectures—including business architecture, enterprise information environments, intelligence processes, and information technology—to identify mission capability gaps, overlaps, and shortfalls.
Lead the development of enterprise architecture implementation plans based on business strategies, priorities, and requirements.
Provide consultative guidance and actionable recommendations to business leaders and stakeholders on investment decisions involving future business and operating models and enabling technologies.
Define and govern cloud architecture strategies, principles, standards, and reference architectures across public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.
Ensure cloud solutions meet requirements for security, resiliency, scalability, interoperability, performance, and cost optimization.
Provide architectural leadership for cloud adoption and application modernization, including workload placement, cloud-native design, containers, serverless computing, APIs, integration patterns, data platforms, and migration of legacy capabilities to modern cloud services.
Partner with security, infrastructure, application, data, and engineering teams to establish cloud governance standards and architecture guardrails, including identity and access management, network architecture, data protection, observability, disaster recovery, FinOps, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
Perform other duties as assigned or as necessary.