Job Description Summary

Job Description

Job Description Summary

The "Solution Architect - GridOS" will be part of the Solution Design team, which mission is to ensure best in class and optimal technical design to meet customer functional and non-functional requirements, project budget and timescale.

As a "Solution Architect - GridOS", you will drive, validate and audit the design of the solution during the different phases of the execution of a project. These phases begin from the Tendering stage and continue till the system acceptance in the customer site (Scope Review, Statement of Work, Solution review, Factory Acceptance Tests, Site Acceptance Tests,...)

• Be responsible, in coordination with the Services function (Delivery Manager and Project Manager), for interacting with customers to define, produce and maintain optimal design based on customer needs and solution capabilities.
• Facilitate requirements, design and solutions workshops that capture functional and non-functional requirements from the client, and you will own the design deliverables (Statement of Work, Architecture documents), ensure traceability of requirements with solutions proposed.
• Be responsible for the communication and enforcement of Design to Customer and Key Project Stakeholders.
• Manage involvement of other SMEs (e.g. business analysts, IT / Cybersecurity experts) and make sure their design contributions meet system architecture functional and non-functional requirements
• Drive excellence in execution through continuous improvement in their segment or domain (best practices and reference material - reference architectures, reference solutions)
• Collaborate with Product Managers & Engineering (Return on Experience, product enhancements, reference architectures)
• Build technical expertise in the field of their segment or domain. Deliver technical consultancy services on demand
• Coordinate knowledge capitalization and dissemination across the Services & Solution Design teams,
• Be accountable for activities planning, progress reporting, and completing activities in his scope as per approved budget.

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a similar program, with a focus on Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
• Experience with Linux, Source code Management, Virtualization, Cloud Architecture (AWS and/or Azure), Micro-services architectures,
• Experience of cloud and cloud native technologies such as containers and Kubernetes,
• Exposure to iterative product development and program management techniques including Agile, Safe, Scrum, DevOps...
• Strong problem-solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments
• Professional English level.

• Electricity Industry knowledge,
• Knowledge of emerging energy industry trends and implications on utility customers (Renewables and DER orchestration, distribution planning, IT, SCADA)
• Experience in Services - Software Commissioning