Utilities Transmission & Distribution Delivery Lead--Control Room & Real-Time Systems

Accenture • Los Angeles, CA

11d

About The Position

We Are: Our Utility Industry, Transmission & Distribution Practice is powering the progress to a safe, connected, and sustainable planet. Every day, we work with the largest electric, gas, and water utilities to deliver innovative solutions and help them become more efficient, reliable, environmentally friendly and safer places to work. We co-create the future with our clients at Accenture Innovation Hubs around the world and work alongside our clients to bring the future to life in the core of our client's operations. We are the marketplace leader in modernizing the Transmission and Distribution network, making it more resilient, secure and flexible to include new distributed energy resources. Our utility clients are looking for bold solutions in the era of rapidly changing technology, policy and workforce innovations. Are you the leader who wants to reinvent the Utilities' Transmission and Distribution and empower our clients to create a clean, sustainable and connected world? Join a team of industry practitioners with global footprint and local camaraderie. Visit our site to learn more about Accenture Strategy & Consulting Utilities Practice. You Are: A skilled utility industry practitioner with the know how to help clients meet the challenges of digitization. You have the experience, creativity, and analytical power to design and implement the next generation of real-time grid management (SCADA/EMS/ADMS/DERMS) solutions: your bread and butter are the utility processes underlying the real time grid management selection, implementation, and maintenance. You are not afraid to imagine next-gen solutions powered by artificial intelligence and automation. In fact, every day you are looking for opportunities to challenge the status quo and you are not satisfied with step change. You are a storyteller, inspiring teams as you design, implement, and maintain complex solutions and share your vision and new ways of thinking. You have a proven track record of assembling diverse, high-octane teams that harness people's strength and deliver radical insight. You understand that co-location with clients and teams is critical to innovation, and you are ready to partner at client sites. The Work Understand client challenges and articulate the value of transformation in terms of business outcomes. Constantly learn and bring new technologies and innovative grid management solutions to our clients. Work with utilities to design and implement real-time grid management systems like ADMS, EMS, SCADA and DERMS. Provide thought leadership on Real time operational systems Drive growth of our engineering and planning practice Enable capability development across the Utility value chain. Upstream of operations (e.g. Planning, Interconnections) and downstream of operations (e.g. Customer Interactions) Develop, review and edit complex delivery plans Manage and support mitigation of delivery risks Collaboration with real time systems vendors to drive solutioning and delivery Manage client relationships to drive delivery success Provide sales support for key experience areas Champion people on your team to succeed professionally and personally Foster trusted advisor relationships with clients from strategy to technology; from the C-Suite to the front line; for business and IT Integrate business data to discover new insight and enable evidence-based business decisions. Ability to travel up to 100%.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience in utility operations and real-time systems, with deep expertise across Transmission & Distribution (T&D) control room environments, including grid operations, reliability, and system optimization.
• Recognized expertise in one or more core operational platforms, including SCADA, EMS, ADMS, DERMS, OMS, or related real-time and operational technologies, with the ability to advise on architecture, integration, and transformation at an enterprise level.
• Proven track record of leading complex, large-scale transformation programs, serving as a functional or technical authority across strategy, design, and delivery in mission-critical environments.
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a trusted advisor to senior utility stakeholders (e.g., COO, CTO, Grid Operations leadership), shaping modernization strategies and influencing key operational and technology decisions.
• Experience working within highly regulated, reliability-critical environments, with a strong understanding of how operational systems support grid stability, resilience, and compliance.
• Ability to bridge business, operations, and technology, translating grid operations requirements into scalable, future-ready solutions.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
• Willingness to travel as needed to support client engagements and executive stakeholder alignment.

Nice To Haves

• Recognized as a thought leader or domain expert in utility operations or real-time systems, with experience contributing to industry forums, publications, client workshops, or internal intellectual property development.
• Deep understanding of regulatory, compliance, and reliability frameworks governing utility control room operations (e.g., NERC, FERC), and their implications on system design and operations.
• Experience in a consulting or professional services environment, with a strong ability to lead client engagements, shape problem statements, and deliver executive-level recommendations.
• Demonstrated experience defining target operating models, governance structures, and transformation roadmaps for control room modernization and grid operations.
• Familiarity with emerging trends, including distributed energy resource integration, grid digitization, advanced analytics, and AI-driven operational decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Support solutioning of complex real time systems projects
• Steer delivery excellence while managing delivery risks, client expectations and financials
• Manage delivery teams for large transformations
• Partner with client executive leadership to mitigate delivery risks and support issue resolution
• Establish and monitor success metrics to measure delivery success
• Support development of thought leadership and assets for real time systems operations
• Build end to end capability for Engineering and Planning work
• Support response to proposal for T&D projects
• Mentor T&D practitioners and support career progression

Benefits

• Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees