Electric Power Generation and Grid Solutions Portfolio Architect

7 days ago


Washington DC USA, United States KaylaTek Full time
Job Title: Electric Power Generation and Grid Solutions Portfolio Architect

About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced Portfolio Architect to join our team at KaylaTek. As a Portfolio Architect, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining the overall architecture of our Electric Power Generation and Grid Solutions portfolio. This includes overseeing the integration and interoperability of solutions, identifying gaps and risks, and ensuring alignment with our architecture principles and industry best practices.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop and maintain the overall architecture of the Electric Power Generation and Grid Solutions portfolio.
  • Oversee the integration and interoperability of solutions.
  • Identify gaps and risks in solution completeness and minimal technical debt introduced.
  • Collaborate with product owners, managers, and other key stakeholders to define and evolve value streams, business capability mapping, and functional/process decomposition.
  • Ensure new product lines and value streams are developed and implemented in alignment with our overall business needs.
  • Work with the product team to identify needed capabilities through business capability maturity modeling and associated gap analysis.
  • Engage in supplier selection activities and sourcing processes to ensure sound investments for the client in the long term.
  • Define functional and technical feature sets based on capability gap analysis.
  • Identify and document mitigations for architecture-related gaps and risks.
  • Maintain and enrich baseline architecture across the Electric Power Generation and Grid Solutions portfolios of applications/solutions.
  • Partner with senior IT staff and management to provide strategic planning efforts.
  • Drive intelligent investment in applications, infrastructure, and integration designs to ensure full value is realized over the solution lifecycle.
  • Coordinate and support the development of solution architecture deliverables and approaches, enforcing overall Enterprise Architecture (EA) solution patterns.
  • Collaborate with information and integration architects and other solution architects to ensure alignment with data and infrastructure domains.
  • Provide architecture services and guidance on architecture decisions to both agile product teams and traditional development teams.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical major/discipline.
  • Five years of electric utility industry knowledge with large system implementation experience.
  • Fifteen years of experience in architecture, design, and/or engineering in IT systems.
  • Ten years combined experience with operations, software engineering, and application development with complex enterprise systems in a systems-of-systems environment.
  • Five years of hands-on product development activities, including software engineering, application development, knowledge of System Development Lifecycle models, methodologies, and coding standards.
  • Five years of enterprise architecture development, including strategic technology planning and integration activities with complex information systems.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to translate complex technical information and synthesize for senior executive decision-making.
  • Overall understanding of IT network-intensive applications and Process Automation for transmission, distribution, and generation assets.

Preferred Qualifications and Experience:

  • Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical major/discipline.
  • IT solution architecture.
  • Certified in The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) or other enterprise architecture standards or frameworks.
  • Electric utility business processes emphasize transmission, distribution, and generation engineering and operations.
  • Solid understanding of Control systems, communication networks, cybersecurity solutions, and/or operational technologies (OT).
  • Agile methodology, DevOps, and CI/CD.
  • Microservices-based architecture designs.
  • Service-Bus oriented strategies and design patterns.

Commitment to Diversity:

KaylaTek is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.



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