Expert Solutions Architect

Pay Rate: Bay Area Min: $140,000 - Bay Area Max: $238,000

Summary:

• Location: Oakland, CA
• Work Mode: Hybrid, working from a remote office and 1-2 days per week at Oakland Headquarters based on business need

Responsibilities:

• Partner with business, technology, and enterprise architecture stakeholders to understand current-state capabilities and define future-state solution needs across major transformational programs.
• Act as the primary technical lead in deploying Copperleaf in support of the Integrated Planning workstream.
• Develop end-to-end solution architecture across applications, data, integrations, infrastructure, security, and business processes.
• Create and maintain architecture artifacts, including current-state and target-state views, solution diagrams, roadmaps, and decision records.
• Ensure proposed solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, cybersecurity requirements, regulatory needs, and company business objectives.
• Evaluate technology options and recommend solutions that are sustainable, adaptable, cost-effective, and operationally supportable.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to project teams through design, delivery, testing, implementation, and transition to operations.
• Identify architecture risks, dependencies, gaps, and trade-offs, and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Support governance reviews, architecture approvals, and stakeholder decision-making while staying current on emerging technologies and industry best practices.
• Address complex problems that span functions and may manage projects or initiatives that are high complexity and risk.
• Own the outcome and have the courage to share unpopular viewpoints.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business or related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in Information Technology.
• Minimum 4 years of solution architecture and project implementation experience in Asset Investment Planning, ERP, or GIS.

Preferred Skills:

• Understanding of the utility industry or similarly regulated industries, including how technology supports business processes.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts, risks, and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to influence outcomes through expertise, analysis, collaboration, stakeholder partnership, customer focus, sound judgment, and a multidisciplinary approach.
• Experience in estimating, engineering, customer billing, electric generation, utility operation.
• Experience overseeing vendor-delivered software solutions or contractor development teams.
• Architecture, security, or IT delivery certifications such as TOGAF, Zachman, DODAF, CISSP, ITIL, or similar.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), enterprise integration patterns, CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure as code, observability, and production support practices.
• Experience using Microsoft Visio, Lucid chart, or other TOGAF-based modeling tools.
• Worked on or deployed solutions like Copperleaf, SAP, PLS-CADD, AutoCAD, AUD, Bentley ProjectWise.
• Hands-on experience with AI, ML, or GenAI solution delivery, including LLM applications, RAG, agentic workflows, prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, observability, APIs, or data pipelines.