Job Description

Job Title: Program Architect – ADMS

Summary

We are seeking an experienced Program Architect to provide architectural leadership and strategic oversight for an Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) implementation initiative. The successful candidate will drive alignment across solution design, delivery, and governance workstreams while managing interdependencies, risks, and overall architectural integrity for a large-scale digital transformation program.

This role will be part of the Solution Architecture team within a global enterprise technology organization, supporting initiatives that modernize operational systems and enable advanced grid and infrastructure management. The ideal candidate is a strong communicator and systems thinker who thrives in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture Leadership

• Coordinate architecture activities across projects to ensure consistency with enterprise and domain-level standards.

• Translate enterprise and domain guidance into actionable solution execution, ensuring alignment across all delivery workstreams.

• Maintain consistency in High-Level (HLD) and Low-Level Designs (LLD) across program components to avoid conflicts and ensure interoperability.

• Track and manage technical risk, design debt, and cross-program dependencies, escalating where needed to maintain program integrity.

• Lead architecture forums to reconcile differences in design approaches, technology selection, and solution constraints.

• Develop and maintain a Program Architecture Plan mapping solution blueprints to enterprise architectural principles.

Governance and Collaboration

• Act as the primary contact for architecture escalations and decision-making at the program level.

• Ensure architecture repositories reflect lessons learned and evolving best practices.

• Participate in enterprise and solution review boards to ensure proposed designs align with enterprise strategies.

• Collaborate with Solution Architects, Technical Leads, and engineering teams to align system designs and implementation practices with architectural standards.

• Support vendor and technology evaluations, product roadmap planning, and modernization initiatives.

Technical Oversight

• Contribute to cloud and on-premise solution architecture, including:

  • Cloud-native and serverless architectures

  • Microservices and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) design

  • Application data modeling and architecture artifact reviews

  • Distributed, high-performing, and secure application design

  • DevOps, containerization, and automation frameworks (e.g., OpenShift, Terraform, AWS/Azure cloud services)

  • Cloud security, networking, and infrastructure components

• Participate in risk assessments and security design discussions related to cloud and infrastructure initiatives.

• Ensure solutions meet all functional, non-functional, and cybersecurity requirements.

• Validate “as-built” architecture to confirm adherence to approved design.

Experience & Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in IT application development.

• 7+ years in solution and application architecture.

• 3+ years of experience as a Lead Architect on complex enterprise-scale projects.

• 5+ years of experience leading or mentoring architectural teams.

• 3+ years of experience architecting Advanced Distribution Management Systems (ADMS) or related operational technology solutions.

• Advanced understanding of application development, source code management, and DevOps practices.

• Strong working knowledge of cybersecurity principles, IT risk management, and secure architecture design.

• Excellent communication, documentation, and presentation skills.

• Proven ability to influence and collaborate across technical and business teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in the utility, energy, or critical infrastructure industries.

• Experience with distribution and outage management systems or other operational technology platforms.

• Familiarity with regulatory compliance, data governance, and enterprise risk frameworks.

Measures of Success

• Proactive identification and mitigation of architectural risks and design gaps.

• Delivery of strategic architecture assessments and recommendations on time and within scope.

• Recognition as a trusted advisor by program leadership and peers.

• Demonstrated thought leadership in cloud, digital transformation, and enterprise modernization initiatives.