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Location: BALTIMORE, MD, United States
Organization: Exelon Business Servcs Co, LLC
Job ID: 232233
Date Posted: Mar 12, 2022
Job: Information Technology - Staff
Description
At Exelon, we've got a place for you!
Join the nation's leading competitive energy provider, with one of the largest electricity generation portfolios and retail customer bases in the country. You will be part of a family of companies that strives for the highest standards of power generation, competitive energy sales, and energy delivery. Our team of outstanding professionals is focused on performance, thought leadership, innovation, and the power of ideas that come from a diverse and inclusive workforce.
Exelon will provide you the tools and resources you need to design, build and enhance a successful career. We are also dedicated to motivating the success of our employees through competitive base salary, incentives, and health and retirement benefits.
Join Exelon and share your passion at a forward-thinking Fortune 100 company. Establish yourself in a place where you can truly shine and create a brighter, more sustainable tomorrow. Energize your career at Exelon!
PRIMARY PURPOSE OF POSITION
The Principal IT Cloud Architect is responsible for providing senior strategy, architecture and technical leadership coupled with strong business acumen to provide a portfolio of technologies that serves as a foundation for IT business applications, services and solutions. Principal architects must have a broad base of technical and business understanding and be “system level” thinkers with a deep understanding of the “big picture” as well as the attention to detail and the ability to transform a strategy into an actionable plan. The successful Principal IT Cloud Architect will maintain a strong knowledge of the core Exelon businesses and IT organization, along with strong acumen in relevant industry and technology trends.
Exelon’s IT hosting strategy is focused on a multi-cloud, hybrid cloud and a cloud-first approach. In addition to deep Azure service consumption, Exelon is expanding into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Knowledge of OCI foundational architecture constructs like identity and access management, virtual cloud networking, and logical compartments is essential. Experience designing, building, deploying and managing workloads in OCI will also be critical to the success of this role.
The primary purpose of this role is to set and drive the infrastructure technology platform strategy and architecture to successfully deliver direct and indirect business applications, services, and solutions. Through keeping an eye on industry trends and innovations, knowledge of the business, IT and the requirements of the requested applications, services and solutions, the role will provide senior technical leadership to ensure the technology platform(s) meet or exceed key requirements including but not limited to technical features/benefits/value, usability, maintainability, scalability/extensibility, performance, availability/reliability, manageability, security and appropriate financial cost profiles.
To be successful in this role, The Principal IT Cloud Architect will drive strong cross-functional collaboration with a wide body of people and teams. This includes Business and IT leadership, application portfolio owners, peer infrastructure architects, solution architects, enterprise architects, relevant IT engineering and operations teams and consulting partners, among many others. This role must be proactive, open-minded, have a curious mind and a questioning attitude to drive continuous improvement. A working knowledge of the Energy and Utilities business and related technology trends is preferred. The Cloud Architect will possess a strong ability to anticipate needs and challenges, be action-oriented and self-directed driven by the goal of successful business outcomes of Platform Architecture processes on behalf of the business and peer IT teams. Strong written, verbal and interpersonal skills are required. Deep experience delivering critical strategic direction and design artifacts and being able to present these deliverables and influence others at all levels of the organization in support of a board-sponsored program is required.
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