Solutions Architect

Dominion Energy • RICHMOND, VA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Dominion Energy is committed to providing reliable, affordable, and increasingly clean energy that powers our customers every day. If you want to work for a purpose-driven company that values safety and collaboration, we’re looking for you. You won’t just find a job here; you’ll find your career. We offer a hybrid 3-2 work schedule (three days in the office, two days of teleworking) to accommodate the need for flexibility.

Military service members and veterans with ranks from E5-E9, W1-CW5, or O3-O6, plus appropriate equivalent combination of education and years of experience as outlined below will be considered for this opportunity.

At this time, Dominion Energy cannot transfer or sponsor a work visa or employment authorization for this position.

This position does not offer relocation assistance.

Requirements

• 7+ years of Information Technology experience, including work in multi-platform operating environments, computing architectures, and implementation of networked computing structures.
• Experience working across multiple teams and organizations to deliver solutions that span business units.
• Knowledge of company architecture standards and how to ensure solutions comply (and how to help improve standards when needed).
• Knowledge of security and integrity controls and how to design solutions that protect assets and meet business and regulatory requirements.
• Creation of architecture and design documentation related to all ITBA Electric Transmission capital projects, tech strategies, and application modernization efforts.
• Experience supporting Electric Transmission work, such as building custom applications, designing system-to-system interfaces, and/or installing/configuring vendor applications.
• Handling governance responsibilities, including change order approvals, risk assessments, and division of responsibilities for shared substations.
• Ensuring NERC compliance requirements are met for Electric Transmission locations, including virus scanning and Dragos monitoring.
• Expert knowledge of multi-platform operating environments, computing architectures, and implementation of networked computing structures.
• Expertise in NERC compliance.
• Direct work experience with cloud solutions and/or Kubernetes.
• Expertise with Process Unity and cyber risk assessments.
• Expertise in developing or integrating telemetry and/or asset data (PI, synchrophasors, SAP PM, etc.).
• Experience in Information Technology.
• Ability to translate business outcomes into technical designs and implementation plans that support those outcomes.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with Azure and OpenShift.
• Experience Supporting and managing AWS environments

Responsibilities

• Develops application architectures, or designs data architectures, focusing on one or the other, but could be proficient in both.
• Has accountability and responsibility for architecture of major applications and systems.
• Ensures architecture complies with approved standards.
• Participates in business process design or improvement.
• Develops and maintains effective working relationships with customer management and IT personnel.
• Designs effective IT solutions for business problems or strategies.
• Collaborates with other application and data teams, to optimize workflow and data across interconnected, business processes.
• Defines new data elements, structures, or changes to applications, to support major enhancements or new business initiatives.
• Guides and advises less experienced members of group.
• Has full accountability for technical quality and viability of a major application area, or category of data, supporting critical, business operations.
• In application-focused role, has responsibility for design and technical quality of a major application, or family of applications, supporting one or more critical business processes or functions.
• Develops and maintains comprehensive, unified, application design that meets all aspects of known or anticipated business requirements.
• Specifies design of business logic, interfaces, data, and presentation components of application(s).
• Maps application components to appropriate hardware, software, and network infrastructures, based on collaboration with infrastructure architects.
• Specifies methods and tools for development and enhancement of application(s), consistent with application requirements and established IT standards.
• Conducts design and code reviews, to ensure technical quality, alignment with business unit and enterprise architecture, and adherence to established standards and guidelines.
• Diagnoses major operational problems, and recommends architecture-level changes to meet availability, reliability, or performance objectives.
• In data-focused role, has responsibility for definition, design, and integrity of data supporting a major business function.
• Defines data element names, aliases, data definitions, and standard data values accurately describing actual entities, attributes, and relationships in a major subject area.
• Specifies system of record for each data element.
• Utilizes system of record, where feasible, in fulfilling data needs.
• Supports business intelligence methods and tools, to gain additional value from data assets.
• Establishes and implements security and integrity controls, protecting data assets and meeting business and regulatory requirements.
• Conducts design reviews to ensure data quality, consistency with established data architecture(s), and adherence to established standards and guidelines.

Benefits

• health benefits with coverage for families and domestic partners
• vacation
• retirement plans
• paid holidays
• tuition reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior