Senior Manager, IT Solutions Architecture - Transmission & Distribution

Edison International•Rosemead, CA

66d•Hybrid

About The Position

Join the Clean Energy Revolution Become a Senior Manager, IT Solutions Architecture - Transmission & Distribution in the Enterprise Architecture Services at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you'll lead a team of Solution and Systems Architects designing innovative, customer-centric IT solutions supporting our Transmission & Distribution Operating Unit. As part of the Enterprise Architecture team, the Senior Manager, IT Solutions Architecture - Transmission & Distribution will partner with business clients and other parts of IT to provide architecture services including solution and systems architectures, IT portfolio strategy, and roadmaps necessary to plan and deliver IT solutions related to SCE's Transmission & Distribution capabilities. You will play a key role in supporting the Transmission & Distribution organization's business through the enablement and automation of business capabilities, functions, processes, and products. As a Senior Manager, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future? In this role you will: Manage a team of architects to deliver client consultations, portfolio architectures and roadmaps, design deliverables, recommendations and impact assessments, IT cost estimations, and occasional troubleshooting. Anticipate future business needs and develop short- and long-term architecture roadmaps and solutions to achieve maximized efficiencies. Manage solution, system and project architects that develop conceptual, logical and support physical solution designs and lead continuous improvement of architecture capabilities with full design accountability. Manage multi-disciplinary solutions, system and project architects, and provide management and administrative support as well as technical guidance to both employees and contractors. Collaborate with cross-functional teams (executives, management, engineering and developers, operations engineers, product owners, and business managers) to lead IT designs and investment decisions for the Transmission & Distribution IT portfolio.

Requirements

Five or more years of experience supervising a team of direct reports and/or project management.
Experience in information technology architecture.

Nice To Haves

Ten or more years of experience in software engineering and/or solution architecture experience.
Master's degree in computer science, systems engineering or an M.B.A. with a technical undergraduate degree.
Experience with TOGAF methodology or TOGAF 9 Certification.
Experience in the electric utility business areas and its regulatory environment.
Superior interpersonal and communication skills.
Ensure the confidentiality of sensitive information and thrive in a fast-paced, and service-oriented environment.
Self-motivated, independent initiative and creative problem-solving skills.
Attention to detail and strong technical intuition.
Time management and committed to meeting bold deadlines and influence through persuasive written and verbal communication, as well as the ability to set and level set expectations at the executive level.
Excellent leadership skills with experience collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

Communicates architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies, and gains interpersonal dedication from IT and business leaders for enterprise-level architecture, infrastructure, data, software, search, technology initiatives
Assigns architecture resources, directs the architectural work of key initiatives, architectural governance, architectural vision, roadmap, standards and guidelines, patterns, frameworks, and selection of appropriate tools
Collaborates and pairs with other product team members (infrastructure, UX, engineering, and product management) to lead their team members in designing secure, reliable, scalable software solutions
Coordinates architecture resources to establish reference architectures and design patterns, as well as delivery and support of the key reusable technology platforms and services to increase the speed to value of solution design and implementation.
Proactively reviews the system characteristics of all aspects of conceptual and logical architecture designs.
Leads team member in the development of portfolio architectures, population of enterprise application tools and data to help with application rationalization and technical portfolio and enterprise architecture roadmaps.
Serves as an escalation point for difficult architecture and trade-off analysis situation during solution analysis
Manages resource capacity, demand, architecture metrics for their team to support staffing decisions and resource allocation
Works with internal stakeholders, vendors, and the open-source community to help identify needed software improvements in products
Leads learning activities around modern architecture and design practices
A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.