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Become a Senior Solutions Architect - Transmission & Distribution at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you'll provide architecture services and designs for applied technology, research and innovation projects across SCE. You will collaborate with business and IT teams to identify and capture technology solutions and drive the design execution from concept to completion. Your work efforts will result in technology/ capability solutions and a pipeline that services current and future capabilities within and across SCE business units.

Key Focus of Role

• Define Solution Architecture: In SCE's Transmission and Distribution areas covering use cases around of Asset Management, Work Management, GIS, Engineering and Planning
• Innovate: Create architecture vision using modern technologies like AI/ML, Robotics, Analytics, Cloud and Distributed Architecture for the use cases
• Conduct Industry Analysis: Understand the industry trends and mature the business capability model based for the OU based on the solutions and features implemented
• Partner with Business: to understand their vision, ambition and KPIs and translate it into narratives, business and technology roadmaps

• Defines architecture blueprint for end-to-end systems including integration of applications systems, platforms and technical infrastructure at the portfolio and solutions architecture levels.
• Carries out the intake scoping of solution concepts and initial cost estimation system architecture definition at the logical level
• Proactively seeks solutions and deploys recommendations to resolve architectural problems related to any IT domain, including Business, Apps, Data, Security, Server, Networks or Storage
• Aligns with Business and Systems Analysts to understand the business requirements and create the corresponding blueprint for implementing various technology components of a new system
• Leads to the solution strategy and architecture including identification of core components necessary to meet functional requirements and desired systems characteristics
• Ties architectural vision together across portfolios and major business initiatives programs
• Manages the design and documentation of solutions within standards defined by the enterprise architecture team
• Coordinates closely with solution engineering development teams and vendors to ensure that a coherent and consistent approach to implementation of the specified solution architecture is achieved
• Analyzes the technology domains and develops market assessments and roadmaps to inform and evolve strategic execution
• Ensures all solutions adhere to enterprise IT principles and utility industry standards and regulations
• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

• Ten or more years of designing and developing IT architecture.

• Three or more years of experience in designing and creating solutions using emerging platforms not limited to, in the areas of Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality, Wearables (eg HoloLens, Google glasses, Oculus etc), Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning using Azure, Google or AWS.
• Three or more years of experience in designing and creating solutions using Cloud technologies, not limited to Azure, Google Cloud, Microservices, Serverless Functions etc
• Experience and working knowledge of TOGAF or other Enterprise Architecture Standards or Frameworks
• Experience with Electric Utility business processes, with emphasis on Transmission and Distribution Engineering, Generation, Grid Operations, or Customer Service.

• This position's work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days.\u202f Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California.\u202f Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
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• Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
• The primary work location for this position is Rosemead, CA However, the successful candidate may also be asked to work for an extended amount of time at other SCE work locations.
• Position will require up to 10% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.
• Relocation does not apply to this position.