Platform Architect

**COMPANY OVERVIEW**

As the nation's largest producer of clean, carbon-free energy, Constellation is a company purposely-built to meet the challenges of the climate crisis. Constellation has been the leader in clean energy production for more than a decade and we are growing our company and capabilities. Now, we're accelerating, speeding our low-carbon or no-carbon power to more people in more places, day and night, providing our customers and communities with options to buy, manage and use energy as part of their decarbonization mission. The race is on to confront the climate crisis and Constellation is ready to meet the challenge. Come join us as we lead energy, together.

**TOTAL REWARDS**

Constellation offers a wide range of benefits and rewards, designed to help our employees thrive professionally and personally. In addition to highly competitive salaries, we offer a bonus program, 401(k) with company match, employee stock purchase program; comprehensive medical, dental and vision benefits, including a robust wellness program; paid time off for vacation, holidays and sick days; and much more.

Expected salary range of $159,300 to $177,000, varies based on experience, along with comprehensive benefits package that includes bonus and 401(k).

**PRIMARY PURPOSE OF POSITION**

Partner with IT and business teams to provide the necessary leadership to drive technology solutions by weighing advantages of technology standards, market availability of products, and risks and benefits of technology introduction into Constellation's computing environment. Provide comprehensive consultation to business unit and IT management and staff at the highest technical level for assigned architectural domain. Operates independently with little or no supervision.

**PRIMARY DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES**

+ Provide technical expertise to IT and business teams to identify technology solutions and strategies to achieve business results. Ensure appropriate implementation of technology within both the development and production environments.

+ For architecture: Design and develop enterprise-wide architecture and strategy for assigned architectural domain in alignment with the business strategy. For engineering: Perform engineering and design functions for software applications and infrastructure in support of the corporate-wide strategic information technology plan; oversee the introduction of new technology into the operations environment by utilizing Constellation's standard governance process.

+ Provide technological expertise and advice to IT leadership in the development of strategic information technology plans to support business strategies.

+ Establish, maintain and enhance relationships with business and IT partners. Communicate status to key stakeholders on a regular basis.

+ Maintain awareness of trends and issues in area of technical expertise, evaluate new technologies or technology opportunities, and provide analysis of their potential impact to advantage the business.

+ Provide input to IT managers on performance of IT personnel to assist in performance evaluations, career development, and recognition.

**MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS**

+ Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline and typically 8 to 10 years in solid, diverse experience in ITnor equivalent combination of education and work experience.

+ Appropriate technical skills

+ In-depth knowledge of business unit functions and applications

+ Comprehensive understanding of change management techniques associated with new technology implementation.

+ Experience producing an economic business case.

+ Demonstrate leadership ability.

+ Strong judgment, excellent analytical ability and consulting skills.

+ Excellent communications skills and ability to work effectively with all levels of IT and business management and with vendors.

+ Foundation Models Expertise: The ideal candidate should have a deep understanding of Language Model Models (LLMs) and their role in natural language processing tasks. They should be familiar with the concept of training LLMs on large datasets to generate human-like text.

+ Predictive Skills: A strong grasp of LLMs' predictive capabilities is required. The candidate should be experienced in utilizing LLMs as next-word prediction engines and in generating contextually relevant and coherent text.

+ Generative AI Knowledge: While LLMs are specific to language-related tasks, familiarity with Generative AI is essential. The candidate should understand that Generative AI includes the generation of images, audio, and code. Expertise in LLMs as a subset of Generative AI is preferred.

+ Customization Skills: The candidate should be aware of the trend toward customizing LLMs for specific industries or applications. This entails adapting LLMs to meet the requirements of specialized use cases that may not necessitate vast datasets.

+ Continuous Learning: Given the rapidly evolving nature of LLMs and Generative AI, the candidate should have a mindset of continuous learning. They should keep up with the latest research in these fields to improve their own capabilities, efficiency, and applicability to various tasks.

Constellation is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and employees or applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to: age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.