Senior IT Architect

Xcel Energy•Minneapolis, MN

1d•$112,200 - $159,400

About The Position

The Senior IT Architect is a key role within the IT organization. They own and govern the use of architecture design patterns, data tools and principles that align to the overarching IT Strategy and optimally serve their respective domain. They consult and collaborate cross-organizationally to support delivery of end-to-end capabilities. They own, report, and consult on the overall health and corresponding risks of the Technical domain.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Technology, Science, Business or related field, or 4 years of experience equivalent to the position.
Ten years of related functional experience.
Architecture acumen across multiple domains including network, infrastructure, software, hosting models, mobile platforms, and security.
Exposure to diverse systems, technologies and processing environments in a large Corporate setting.
Project solution architecture experience.
General knowledge of core aspects of enterprise architecture (Software, Hardware, Network, Integration, Data, hosting models, platform types, etc.).
Strong analytical, problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
Extensive knowledge of future technology trends within area of expertise.
Demonstrated leadership on technical aspects of large scale projects.
Excellent communication skills, effective with varying organizational levels and skill sets.
Excellent Relationship Management and collaboration skills, with a track record of working as one team cross-organizationally to drive innovation and business results.

Nice To Haves

Ten years of project solution architecture experience.
Seven years of experience in Record/Content Management systems ensuring information is governed, retained, and protected in accordance with regulatory, legal, and enterprise compliance requirements including nuclear regulations.
Five years of experience in Gimmal Link / Gimmal Link Enterprise: Responsible for designing and governing the end to end integration architecture between SAP, Gimmal Link Enterprise, and downstream content platforms (e.g., SharePoint), ensuring scalability, security, and alignment with enterprise standards.
Five years of experience in Documentum WebTop/XCP: Responsible for designing and governing the application, repository, and integration architecture to ensure secure, scalable, and standards aligned content and records management.

Responsibilities

Review and approve projects and work efforts to ensure that they are compliant with architectural standards.
Track and manage exceptions to standards.
Continuously improve operational processes.
Assess, report, and make recommendations to eliminate operational risk related to technology or architecture.
Develop high level and detail level technical designs for solutions – to satisfy business requirements.
Lead and coordinate all technical aspects of solution implementation, including application, database, security, infrastructure deployment.
Adhere to architectural processes and standards and contributes and develops new standards definitions when required.
Ensure high quality delivered solutions with limited risk that and can be seamlessly assimilated into operational support models.
Pursue solution and operational enhancements and innovation to provide continuous improvement.
Ensure regulatory and security compliance for new and existing solutions.
Work with vendors for service delivery and evaluating and implementing new technologies.
Provide consultation and direction to delivery and operational teams on optimal architecture for respective solutions.
Maintain state-of-the-art expertise of enterprise architecture technologies, frameworks, and industry innovations.
Lead work cross-organizationally through coaching and feedback, and through significant interactions and influence with leaders.
Govern work efforts to ensure alignment with reference architecture, IT strategy and policy.
Collaborate cross-organizationally to influence alignment on and adoption of enterprise architecture standards.
Participate in creation and renewal of an overarching IT strategy.
Develop and enforce reference architecture standards that are aligned with IT strategies and principles.
Contribute to architecture road maps and provide input to technology road maps.
Ensure the domain IT Strategy align with Enterprise Architecture framework and standards.