Remote Portfolio Architect
at Sia Partners

Summary

Join Sia Partners as a Project Consultant (Exempt Contractor) for the Portfolio Architect role. This is a temporary position with an expected duration of 12 months, requiring 40 hours per week of work. The compensation for this contract is $250k per year, and the exact pay rate will vary depending on skills, experience, and location.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical major/ discipline
• Five (5) years of electric utility industry knowledge with large system implementation experience
• Fifteen (15) years of experience in architecture, design and/or engineering in IT systems
• Ten (10) years combined experience with operations, software engineering, and application development with complex enterprise systems in a systems-of-systems environment
• Five (5) years of hands-on product development activities including software engineering, application development, knowledge of System Development Lifecycle models, methodologies, and coding standards
• Five (5) 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

Responsibilities

• Oversight for the integration and interoperability of the solutions, and identification of gaps and risks in solution completeness and minimal technical debt introduced
• Create conceptual solution architectures (Architecture Vision Definition or AVDs) that adhere to architectural standards and architecture roadmap
• Provide oversight to Project Architects during development of logical solution architectures including Solution Architecture Documents (SADs)
• Collaborate with the product owner, manager, and other product oriented key stakeholders to define/evolve value streams, value stages, business capability mapping, functional/process decomposition, and all associated elements
• Ensure new product lines and value streams are developed and implemented in a way that aligns with the organization's overall business needs
• Work with the product team to identify the needed capabilities by doing business capability maturity modeling and associated gap analysis
• Engage in supplier selection activities and sourcing processes to ensure that the selected supplier(s) and products and/or services would be a sound investment in the long term
• Define the needed functional and technical feature sets based on the capability gap analysis
• Identify and document the mitigations for architecture-related gaps and risks
• Conduct the maintenance and enrichment of baseline architecture across the portfolios of applications/solutions
• Partner with senior IT staff and management and acts as an advisor to 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 and enforce 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

Preferred Qualifications

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

Benefits

• Statutory Time Off – Sick
• Medical, Dental, Vision: Eligible for Purchase Option
• 401(k) Participation: Eligible after one month of employment with matching and 100% vesting first day of participation