Job Description
GAS Enterprise Architect
Job Summary
The GAS Enterprise Architect proactively and holistically helps and guides Gas Technology Solutions and affiliate leaders, directors and managers, business process owners, and solution delivery teams in the formulation, implementation, and continuous improvement of the overall Technology Organization strategies that best deliver the required business outcomes and capabilities that enable Southern Company to meet the performance expectations of its stakeholders.
This position develops and maintains high-level designs for overall logical and technical IT architecture. Employees in this role provide leadership, strategic decision-making, and guidance within technical disciplines, solving unique and complex problems. Individuals facilitate and orchestrate the delivery of targeted business outcomes through technical decisions. Leaders in this job serve as top-level experts and visionaries in the development of roadmaps, strategy, and design for assigned technology areas.
This role will report to the Supv, Gas Architecture & Environment Mgmt.
Major Job Responsibilities
- Works with business partners to analyze strategy and trends to define the requirements, principles, and models that guide technology decisions
- Communicates and enforces technology standards with business partners
- Understands industry trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies
- Drives digital innovation and develops roadmaps through new technologies and approaches to fulfill strategic business plans
- Defines high-level migration plans to address gaps in current state architecture
- Coaches, mentors, and leads technical subject matters experts to enable and drive consistency across technology architectures
- Consults with project solution architects to ensure projects are leveraging best and most appropriate supported and preferred architecture patterns
- Designs and owns governance, assurance, and standards activities for the overall enterprise technology architecture and its compliance
- Reviews and helps govern the viability of individual project technical designs based on their compliance with published corporate IT architecture standards
- Oversees and facilitates the evaluation, risk assessment, selection, and design of hardware and software technology and product standards
- Delivers technology architecture artifacts, possibly including reference architectures or concepts of operation
Job Requirements Education Experience and Knowledge
GAS Enterprise Architect
Job Summary
The GAS Enterprise Architect proactively and holistically helps and guides Gas Technology Solutions and affiliate leaders, directors and managers, business process owners, and solution delivery teams in the formulation, implementation, and continuous improvement of the overall Technology Organization strategies that best deliver the required business outcomes and capabilities that enable Southern Company to meet the performance expectations of its stakeholders.
This position develops and maintains high-level designs for overall logical and technical IT architecture. Employees in this role provide leadership, strategic decision-making, and guidance within technical disciplines, solving unique and complex problems. Individuals facilitate and orchestrate the delivery of targeted business outcomes through technical decisions. Leaders in this job serve as top-level experts and visionaries in the development of roadmaps, strategy, and design for assigned technology areas.
This role will report to the Supv, Gas Architecture & Environment Mgmt.
Major Job Responsibilities
- Works with business partners to analyze strategy and trends to define the requirements, principles, and models that guide technology decisions
- Communicates and enforces technology standards with business partners
- Understands industry trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies
- Drives digital innovation and develops roadmaps through new technologies and approaches to fulfill strategic business plans
- Defines high-level migration plans to address gaps in current state architecture
- Coaches, mentors, and leads technical subject matters experts to enable and drive consistency across technology architectures
- Consults with project solution architects to ensure projects are leveraging best and most appropriate supported and preferred architecture patterns
- Designs and owns governance, assurance, and standards activities for the overall enterprise technology architecture and its compliance
- Reviews and helps govern the viability of individual project technical designs based on their compliance with published corporate IT architecture standards
- Oversees and facilitates the evaluation, risk assessment, selection, and design of hardware and software technology and product standards
- Delivers technology architecture artifacts, possibly including reference architectures or concepts of operation
Job Requirements Education Experience and Knowledge
About Southern Company
Southern Company is one of the largest energy providers in the United States. Based in Atlanta, Southern Company owns electric utilities in four states, natural gas distribution utilities in seven states, a competitive generation company serving wholesale customers across America and a nationally recognized provider of customized energy solutions, as well as fiber optics and wireless communications.
The men and women who work at Southern Company understand that we don’t simply provide a product or service. Clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy is essential to our way of life. More than 100 years ago, our company played a major role in the growth and prosperity of the South – and we continue to play a role today through our support of economic development and our philanthropic efforts. We believe the communities we serve should be better off because we’re there.
Our principal business is to make, move and sell energy. Those are the “whats” of our business. But it’s the “hows” that make us different. The actions of our employees are what truly define us and have earned us a high level of trust among our customers, shareholders and regulators.
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