Experience
8–10+ years of experience in architecture, engineering, or senior technical leadership roles.
Proven experience leading architecture for large-scale, multi-project enterprise programs.
Prior Solution Architect or Lead Architect experience with direct delivery accountability.
Technical Breadth
Leadership & Influence
Demonstrated ability to lead without direct authority.
Comfortable making and defending architectural decisions under ambiguity.
Able to challenge teams, stakeholders, and vendors constructively when required.
Communication & Stakeholder Management
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to clearly articulate architecture to:
Executives and program leadership (outcomes, risks, tradeoffs)
Technical teams (design intent, constraints, patterns)
Produces pragmatic, decision-focused artifacts—not academic documentation.
Program Overview
The Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) program is focused on the implementation and integration of a modern grid operations platform that unifies outage management (OMS), distribution management (DMS), and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) capabilities into a cohesive, real-time operational ecosystem. Experience with AspenTech OSI Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) is preferred.
The program spans grid monitoring, control, outage response, network modeling, and operational analytics to support safe, reliable, and efficient electric distribution operations.
Key systems and domains in scope include ADMS platform capabilities, integrations with GIS, AMI, DERMS, EMS, and enterprise operational systems, as well as real-time data ingestion, control room tooling, and field communications.
The ADMS program is a cornerstone initiative in enabling grid modernization, improving situational awareness, reducing outage duration, and supporting distributed energy resource (DER) integration at scale.
Program Architect Focus
The Program Architect ensures that the ADMS platform is implemented as an integrated, resilient, and scalable grid operations capability—rather than a collection of loosely coupled operational tools.
Key areas of responsibility include:
Defining the end-to-end program architecture across ADMS components including OMS, DMS, SCADA integrations, and real-time data processing layers.
Ensuring seamless integration with upstream and downstream systems such as GIS, AMI, DERMS, EMS, asset management, customer systems and other edge systems.
Establishing architectural guardrails for vendor platforms and system integrators to minimize over-customization and ensure long-term maintainability.
Designing for high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery to support mission-critical grid operations.
Coordinating data architecture for real-time and near-real-time telemetry, network models, and operational analytics.
Ensuring consistent system-of-record definitions and data synchronization strategies across operational systems.
Driving alignment between control room operations, field systems, and enterprise platforms through well-defined integration patterns and interfaces.
Supporting scalability to accommodate increasing grid complexity, DER penetration, and advanced automation use cases.
Advising on long-term architectural strategy for phased ADMS rollout, including legacy system decommissioning and transition states.
Ensuring cybersecurity considerations are embedded in architecture, particularly for operational technology (OT) and IT/OT boundary integrations.
This role is critical to preventing fragmented grid operations, ensuring system reliability, and enabling advanced capabilities such as automated switching, predictive outage management, and DER orchestration.
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