Program Architect

Program Architect -ADMS



Summary

• This position is responsible for providing architectural leadership and decision-making on the Advanced Distribution Management
• System (ADMS) implementation strategic program. The successful candidate will ensure alignment of solution design, delivery, and
• governance across work-streams, managing dependencies and escalating risks that affect the broader transformation initiative. This
• resource will be part of the Solution Architecture team within the Application Architecture and Reliability Tower of the Digital Grid
• Operation Organization. The role requires strong communication and analytical skills.
• Additionally, this position works cooperatively with a team to develop concepts, strategies, and tactical processes within changing grid
• operations and landscapes.

Key Roles & Responsibilities



This position encompasses the following responsibilities directly or through others:

• Align Architecture Activities: Coordinate architecture activities across related projects to ensure consistency and alignment
• with enterprise and domain guidance.
• Translate Guidance into Execution: Translate enterprise and domain guidance into coordinated execution, ensuring that
• solution design, delivery, and governance are aligned across work-streams.
• Ensure Consistency: Ensure consistency of High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) across work-streams,
• mitigating cross-project design conflicts.
• Track Technical Risk and Design Debt: Track technical risk and design debt at the program level, identifying and escalating
• risks that affect the broader transformation initiative.
• Lead Program-Wide Architecture Forums: Lead program-wide architecture forums, reconciling differences in design
• patterns, platforms, or constraints.
• Maintain Program Architecture Plan: Maintain a Program Architecture Plan that maps solution blueprints to enterprise
• principles.
• ARB Escalations: Serve as the point of contact for Architecture Review Board (ARB) escalations from multiple Solution
• Architects.
• Architecture Repository Updates: Ensure updates to architecture repositories reflect the aggregate learning from the program.
• Subject Matter Expert: Serve as a Subject Matter Expert on ADMS from an architectural, solution, & design perspective for
• the entire program and be able to represent architectural, solution, & design decisions at the program level.
• Collaborate with Solution Architects, Technical Leads, and Technical Staff to ensure that system designs, solutions, and
• processes align with and support Enterprise Architecture.
• Shape the solution Architecture roadmap through the application of technology, domain/program, industry, and organizational
• capability expertise.
• Drive implementation of large-scale enterprise programs, ensuring alignment between Architecture and program objectives.

Program Architect Responsibilities:

e Participate in the Architecture Review Board (ARB), including:



Participate in the discussion and approval of all projects, procedures, and policies presented to the ARB.

o Represent all the program-related architectural solutions in ARB

Participate in Enterprise Solution Review Board



Ensure that proposed solutions align with Enterprise Architecture Strategies

Speak to the collaborative design of the solution and key decisions made for the design.



Application Development (Cloud and On-premises Applications)



Customer off-the-shelf application implementation and upgrades



Design systems in serverless computing models, microservices & Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)

Design application data models and perform reviews of Solution Architecture artifacts



Provide highly scalable, distributed, high-performing, highly available, disaster recovery supported, and robust

architecture for applications of various languages like Java, .NET, JavaScript, Python, etc.



Cloud DevOps



Containerization Platforms (Includes OpenShift on AWS, Azure & IBM Cloud ete.)



Cloud Network Components (VPC, Subnets, Transit Gateway, Firewalls etc.)



Cloud Storage Components (Relational, Non-Relational & Object Storage)



Cloud Security Components (Security Policy Enforcements, IAM, Identity Federation etc.)



Cloud Infrastructure Automation (Cloud Formation, Terraform etc.)



Cloud-based solution estimation.



* Create and/or validate the cloud-based elements of a design for projects on which a fellow Architect is the primary architect.



Participate in vendor and product selection process on cloud-focused and non-cloud-focused initiatives.



Participate in the Technology Strategy team Product Roadmap Initiative by providing recommendations for new products,

consolidation, prioritization, decommission, implementation timing, and dependencies.



For assigned Program & efforts:



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Integrate with technology capability project teams to:

= Produce Architecture artifacts

Assist with high-level and low-level designs

Ensure architecture guidelines & policies are followed

Ensure industry best practices are followed

Ensure regulatory, legal or policy requirements are followed

= Formulate acceptable processes and use cases

= Ensure solution will deliver all functional & non-functional requirements

= Ensure solution allows Oncor to remain cyber safe & secure

= Validate design vs. as-built architecture at the completion of projects



Participate in the open form discussions around IT Security (especially on Cloud Security) regarding the changing threat

landscape, evaluate risk, and provide recommended changes to defense postures.





Experience.



Qualifications, & Skill Requirements

• Minimum 10 or more years experience in IT Application Development
• Minimum 7 years of experience in architecting applications and solutions
• Minimum 3 years of experience as a Lead Architect in complex projects
• Minimum 5 years of experience in managing IT Architectural teams
• Minimum 3+ years of experience in architecting ADMS solution.
• Advanced understanding of application development, source code management & DevOps practices.
• Great communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong working knowledge of IT risks, cyber security, and computer operating software
• Candidates should have excellent documentation, presentation, and mentoring skills.
• Measures of Success
• Ability to self-initiate projects, analyze, and deliver strategic architecture assessments / recommendations on time and
• within budget.
• Intellectually curious and takes a proactive approach to solving problems or answering strategic questions.
• Sought after by peers and Oncor leaders for expertise and leadership within application development and cloud domain.