Prin Enterprise Architect (Data Platforms)

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. Working across the enterprise and all organizational levels, the Principal Enterprise Architect aligns long-term technology and application strategies with long-term business objectives. The role applies a strategic, long-term vision to strengthen alignment between business and technology, supports governance expectations, and helps shape future business direction. The position leads enterprise data platform architecture and strategy, including reference architectures, standards, and roadmaps for cloud data warehouses, data lakes, lakehouse architectures, operational data stores, and real-time data platforms. It establishes data architecture standards and guardrails across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments, and provides architectural leadership for data platform modernization in partnership with business, analytics, AI, application, security, and engineering teams. This is a hybrid position with required onsite work on 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 to those who qualify. The position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship, including H-1B, TN, CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT participation.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Enterprise Architecture, Technology, or a related field and at least seven years of experience performing enterprise architecture work; alternatively, an associate degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field and at least nine years of such experience; or a high school diploma or GED and at least eleven years of such experience.
Familiarity with graphical modeling approaches, tools, and model repositories.
Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, service-oriented architecture (SOA), APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven architecture, and predictive analytics.
Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
Comprehensive knowledge of the components and principles of holistic enterprise architecture.
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, and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.
Knowledge of business engineering principles and processes.
Must be within commuting distance of the Jackson, Michigan worksite or willing to relocate.
Must not require current or future immigration sponsorship for a work visa; CPT, OPT, and STEM OPT candidates are not eligible.

Nice To Haves

Relocation is available for candidates who qualify.

Responsibilities

Research, develop, document, and analyze enterprise, operational, and system architectures.
Prepare and publish formal architecture documents, develop architecture plans and reports, and present recommendations and proposed actions to stakeholders through materials such as white papers and briefings.
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 about initiatives and policies that support targeted business 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 development of enterprise architecture implementation plans based on business strategies, priorities, and requirements.
Provide consultative guidance and actionable recommendations to business leaders and organizational stakeholders to support investment decisions about future business and operating models and enabling technologies.
Define and lead enterprise data platform architecture and strategy, including reference architectures, standards, and roadmaps for cloud data warehouses, data lakes, lakehouse architectures, operational data stores, and real-time data platforms.
Establish enterprise data architecture standards and guardrails for data integration, interoperability, modeling, movement, storage, governance, security, quality, and lifecycle management across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
Provide architectural leadership for data platform modernization, partnering with business, analytics, AI, application, security, and engineering teams to deliver trusted, scalable, and reusable data platforms and products for analytics, artificial intelligence, operational workloads, and business decision-making.
Perform other duties as assigned or necessary.