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KaylaTek, Inc. Portfolio Architect in Washington, District Of Columbia
160000-200000 per year Salary plus benefits | Washington, DC, USA | Salary | Full Time
Come join our growing team with a 21st Century Vision! At KaylaTek, we understand that the key to our success is the quality of the people we employ. Our focus is not just on jobs, but on building and enhancing your career through ongoing professional development, training, and high quality of life. Our team members choose KaylaTek for a number of reasons including our competitive compensation and benefit packages, dedication to education, as well as our outstanding service. Our Grow Strong Vision encompasses a place for employees to grow, learn and feel a sense of belonging, not just a place to work.
JOB SUMMARY: The Portfolio Architect is responsible for end-to-end architecture including the associated products and services working under the guidance of the Clients' 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 the Clients' architecture principles, guidelines, and industry best practices.
CERTIFICATIONS PREFERRED: Certified in The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) or other enterprise architecture standards or frameworks.
SHIFT: Remote work with occasional travel
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Overall portfolio architecture of the Generation and Grid Solutions (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 client 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.
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
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.
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.