Job Title: Portfolio Architect/Project Architect/Product Architect (3 Different Roles)
Location: Los Angeles, CA (Hybrid)
Duration: 6-12+ Months Contract
Interview mode: Video
Only USC/GC
LinkedIn (Preferred)
Job Description:
Portfolio Architect
The Portfolio Architect is responsible for end-to-end architecture including the associated products and services working under the guidance of the SCE Enterprise Architects and their Solution Architects. This role will carry out important functional activities across the Generation portfolio to support developing high-value products and services. This job role will ensure all architecture is developed in alignment with SCE's architecture principles, guidelines, and industry best practices. Responsibilities Overall portfolio architecture of the G&GS portfolio, 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 for SCE 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 G&GS 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. Supply Management | Indirect Procurement | SOW | Generation IT Product Lines and Value Streams | February 2024 Page 4 Provide architecture services and guidance on architecture decisions to both agile product teams and traditional development teams. Minimum Qualifications and Experience 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 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
Project Architect
The Project Architect is responsible for the logical and physical architecture definitions for each assigned project working under the guidance of the SCE Solution Architect and SCE System Architect. This job role collaborates with the business stakeholders, product owner, project management, portfolio architect, domain architects, cyber engineering, and other stakeholders to ensure the architecture aligns with the business requirements and is optimized for the project needs. The Project Architect is responsible for designing the overall system architecture, including the selection of technologies that are supportable, strategically fit, compliant, and patterned oriented that adhere to architecture principles of both Generation and Grid Solutions systems. Responsibilities Coordinate and support the development of solution architecture deliverables and approaches and enforce overall enterprise architecture (EA) solution patterns. Supply Management | Indirect Procurement | SOW | Generation IT Product Lines and Value Streams | February 2024 Page 5 Create logical and physical architecture deliverables, which include Solution Architecture Definition (SAD), various Design Specifications (xDS), System Requirements Specification (SRS), and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM). Collaborate with all engineering including cyber early in the planning and design cycles. Collaborate with product (portfolio) owners, product managers, architects, and any other product-oriented stakeholders to create a technology architecture to meet the needs of the product strategy. Organize and conduct peer reviews of architecture deliverables. Create reference architecture and models with design patterns that promote reuse, compliance, and overall technology efficiency. Responsible for identifying and potentially resolving technical debt across multiple product lines, ensuring that it is being addressed in a way that balances short-term business needs with long-term architectural priorities. Identify and describe multiple solution options to new and maturing business capabilities and able to work with others to understand financial, compliance, and technology impact of solution architecture alternatives. Coordinate with Portfolio, Solution, and Enterprise Architect(s) to understand the appropriate business portfolio direction. Understand and potentially augment technology domain strategies to ensure that the solution under consideration supports the direction for technology domains. Identify, assess, document, and communicate any deviations from EA standards. Collaborate with Data and Integration Architect(s) and other solution architects to ensure alignment with data, integration, and infrastructure domains. Generate support, critique, and acceptance of proposed solutions. Review and potentially influence Test Strategy, Test Plan, and Test Cases to ensure adequate test coverage for the solution. Participate in defect resolution process and escalations as required. Provide oversight and guidance to technical leads and test leads to ensure that the architecture is adhered to and implemented "as designed." Demonstrate accountability for the overall quality of the solution design; not limited to "as designed", but also "as implemented." Provide oversight for resolving technical issues that arise during any project phase from construction to postimplementation. Minimum Qualifications and Experience Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical major/ discipline. Seven (7) years of combined experience within information technology, operations, engineering, enterprise architecture, application development, and/or technical related field. Three (3) years of hands-on product or project development activities including knowledge of standard System Development Lifecycle models, methodologies, and coding standards. Work product delivered in large enterprise systems and in a complex environment (e.g., system-of-systems). Collaboration with senior management, executives, and other stakeholders to identify opportunities. Creation of high-quality presentations, proposals, statements of work, and assessment deliverables. Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to translate complex technical information and synthesize for senior executive decision-making. In-depth understanding of complex computer network designs. Supply Management | Indirect Procurement | SOW | Generation IT Product Lines and Value Streams | February 2024 Page 6 Broad and in-depth technical understanding of process automation, mainstream products & vendors, and industrial field protocols that run across complex computer networks and control system platforms. Preferred Qualifications and Experience Master's degree in Computer Science or related engineering field, or Information Management. TOGAF certification or other Enterprise Architecture standards or frameworks. Electric utility business processes with an emphasis on Transmission and Distribution Engineering and Operations. Control systems, communication networks, cybersecurity technologies, and/or Operational Technologies (OT). Agile methodology, DevOps, and CI/CD. Microservices-based architecture
Product Architect
The Product Architect provides consultative enterprise architecture services to both agile and waterfall-oriented product teams. The product teams are usually composed of a mix of architecture, plan, deliver, and run functions within IT. Product teams are client facing and are the primary groups that business interacts and engages with. This role can be assigned to one or more product teams and provides a broad range of expertise and service from supporting product strategy to providing guidance on individualized architecture decisions. As is the case with the product team, this role will be client facing and require senior client interaction skill sets. A Product Architect must have a broad understanding of architecture domains (business, information, application, technology, etc.) and know how to apply concepts from those domains to the specific needs of their product team(s) while respecting the architecture principles and guardrails of the enterprise at large. For this scope of work, this role will have significant business and technology subject matter expertise for the G&GS product and product portfolio landscape. The Product Architect will provide leadership in defining the product strategy in collaboration with the product stakeholders and ensure alignment between the business goals of the product and the technical architecture that supports it. They support distributed architecture decision making through regular consultation with product teams, identifying architecture decisions to be made and providing guidance on interpreting the reference architecture. They help product teams proactively identify technical roadblocks, identify appropriate resolutions to those roadblocks and coordinate with delivery teams to ensure delivery of value to the business. Responsibilities Understands the context of the G&GS product or product portfolio within the organization and its competitive landscape. Works with enterprise and business architects to document the business architecture that the G&GS product or product portfolio supports, including business capabilities, value streams and business processes. Collaborates with product owners and other product stakeholders to create a product strategy, identify investments, and participate in roadmap creation that supports business goals and aligns to the minimum viable architecture (MVA). Works with product team(s) to define and maintain the high-level target G&GS product and product portfolio architecture. Supports product teams to integrate technology innovation by identifying opportunities for proof-of-concept or unit development work to deploy new technologies that would support, enhance, improve or replace the product or product functions or features. Identifies critical architecture decisions that require alignment to enterprise and G&GS reference architectures. Provides guidance on architecture decisions based on enterprise guidance from reference architecture when available. Works with domain architects and domain engineers when deeper domain knowledge is necessary to support decision making relative to the G&GS product or product portfolio. Coaches and mentors, the product team members on product related architecture thinking. Supply Management | Indirect Procurement | SOW | Generation IT Product Lines and Value Streams | February 2024 Page 7 Maintains subject matter knowledge of G&GS application & technology portfolio to support contextual decision making. Works with product team to identify needed capabilities and features to enable product development. Collaborates with G&GS product owner(s) and to coordinate implementation of product-specific enablers. Coordinates with enterprise architects and G&GS portfolio/delivery managers to prioritize development of needed enterprise enablers. Contributes principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to the MVA based on feedback and lessons learned during product development. Escalates product architecture decisions that are not compliant with MVA. Works with enterprise architects and other domain and/or product architects to coordinate dependencies and shared capabilities across product lines. Minimum Qualifications and Experience Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Power Engineering, or related technical major/ discipline. Seven (7) years of combined experience within information technology, operations, engineering, enterprise architecture, application development, and/or technical related field. Five (5) years of hands-on product or project development activities including knowledge of standard System Development Lifecycle models, methodologies, and product standards. Work products delivered in large enterprise systems and in a complex G&GS environment (e.g., system-ofsystems). Collaboration with senior management, executives, and other stakeholders to identify opportunities. Creation of high-quality presentations, proposals, statements of work, and assessment deliverables. Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to translate complex technical information and synthesize for senior executive decision-making. In-depth understanding of complex computer network and process control designs. Broad and in-depth technical understanding of process automation, mainstream products & vendors, and industrial field protocols that run across complex computer networks and control system platforms. Background in safety instrumented systems for an industrial G&GS solution environment Preferred Qualifications and Experience Master's degree in computer science or related engineering field, or information management. TOGAF certification or other enterprise architecture standards or frameworks. PMP certification and other related program management office experience. Electric utility business processes with an emphasis on theory of operations for Generation as well as Transmission and Distribution. Control systems, communication networks, cybersecurity technologies, and/or Operational Technologies (OT). Agile methodology, DevOps, and CI/CD. Microservices-based architecture. Ability to understand and explain electric utility single line diagrams. Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations and contexts
