Prin IT Architect

Job Description

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 Enterprise Architect is a cross-project and cross-discipline role that is charged with the creation, maintenance and communication of Exelon’s current-state and future-state Architectures.  Engage with the Constellation leadership team in setting direction for the Architecture organization and support the IT/Business functions. The Principal IT Architect is responsible for providing strategy, architecture, and technical leadership to serve a portfolio of technologies that acts as a foundation for Constellation IT business applications, services, and solutions.  Principal architects must have a broad base of technical and business understanding as well as the attention to detail to transform a strategy into an actionable plan. The successful Principal IT Architect will demonstrate knowledge to navigate through recent technology trends and connect it with the business goals to act as an influencer.

To be successful in this role, The Principal Architect needs to collaborate with Business and IT leadership, application portfolio owners, infrastructure architects, solution architects, enterprise architects, relevant IT engineering /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.  Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal skills are required.  Deep experience delivering critical strategic direction and design artifacts as well as presenting these deliverables to influence others at all levels of the organization in support of a board-sponsored program is required. 

PRIMARY DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Establish and lead the architecture practice with Shared Systems and Services Organization
• Ability to look at the big picture, recommend innovative approaches and tackle innovative ideas
• Support IT and business teams to identify the technology solutions and strategies to achieve business results as well as leading implementation.
• Act as a technology advocate and advise teams on technology/domain roadmaps.
• Identify and translate system requirements into prescribed architecture and design that meet business requirements and are aligned to Constellation architecture standards and principles. Work with project teams to ensure that these designs are properly executed/implemented, leveraging industry standards as applicable.
• Ensure architecture adherence through the lifecycle of the project and develop architectural artifacts.
• Establish and work through the architecture communities of practice to collaborate and share ideas.
• Function as a technical expert and work effectively across all levels of the organization to ensure that industry expertise is leveraged.
• Responsible to participate and provide thought leadership into the RFP and budget planning processes to ensure that strategies are actionable.
• Working knowledge and active participation in Architecture Engagement, Technical Review and Architecture Review Board processes, methodology and governance model.

Qualifications

POSITION SPECIFICATIONS

Knowledge/Skills/Attributes

• A strong architect with unwavering focus on technology/market trends.
• Ability to see big picture and navigate through ambiguity
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent mediation, collaboration, facilitation, conflict resolution and influencing skills
• Ability to translate business needs to IT requirements and architecture blueprints in accordance with Constellation standards
• Good mentoring skills to develop talent and maintain a resource pool
• Strong focus on innovation to establish new processes
• Promote knowledge and learning through technology leadership within applicable domain(s) by authoring and delivering seminars, presentations and publications within IT and Constellation

Qualifications 

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical discipline plus experience
• 10-15 years in proven, diverse experience in IT, with Architecture focus
• Strong demonstrated leadership presence and ability
• Strong judgment, excellent analytical ability, and consulting skills
• Experience and deep knowledge of the business processes
• Experience leading Enterprise-wide projects
• Demonstrated strategy planning and customer engagement skills and experience leading teams and people through change.
• Excellent consultative skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation. Advanced interpersonal skills, communications skills, and presentation skills

Exelon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and employees or applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to: age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.

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