Southern Company

Enterprise Architect

Naperville, IL

full time

On-site

Utilities

About This Job

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

•

Bachelor’s degree in MIS, Computer Science or a related field

•

Minimum 10+ years’ experience in architecture

Experience and Knowledge

•

Proven experience (10+ years) working as an Enterprise Architect or in a similar role, designing and implementing enterprise architecture plans for large-scale organizations.

•

Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap that align with business objectives and support the organization's mission.

•

Define and enforce architecture standards, principles, guidelines, and best practices to ensure consistency, scalability, and flexibility across all IT systems and applications.

•

Effective leadership skills with exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.

•

Strong consulting skills such as targeted communications, engagement management, stakeholder management and business analysis.

•

Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders.

•

Comfortable, experienced, and accomplished at working with business executives, and able to push back in a professional and diplomatic way.

•

Strong understanding and experience implementing enterprise architecture frameworks, methodologies, and best practices.

•

Knowledge of cloud-based data and processing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), big data analytics tools, and machine learning concepts.

•

Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.

•

Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex data challenges and design innovative and scalable solutions.

•

Proficiency in enterprise architecture tools, modeling languages, and documentation standards.

•

Coach and mentor other architects, application owners/managers and business stakeholders to instill architectural thinking.

•

Experience with Utility related business processes, industry applications, and supporting technologies.

•

A deep, comprehensive knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle and development principles

•

Interest in and passion for learning and working in a fast-paced environment

•

Ability to handle multiple assignments and conflicting priorities

•

Ability to work with business partners and peers of varying levels of technical proficiency

•

Advanced understanding various technical principles, theories and concepts

•

Broad understanding of a wide range of technical areas

•

Excellent communication skills including the ability to translate complex or technical ideas into non-technical language

About Southern Company

Southern Company (NYSE: SO ) is a leading energy provider serving 9 million customers across the Southeast and beyond through its family of companies. Providing clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy with excellent service is our mission. The company has electric operating companies in three states, natural gas distribution companies in four states, a competitive generation company, a leading distributed energy solutions provider with national capabilities, a fiber optics network and telecommunications services. Through an industry-leading commitment to innovation, resilience and sustainability, we are taking action to meet customers' and communities' needs while advancing our goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Our uncompromising values ensure we put the needs of those we serve at the center of everything we do and are the key to our sustained success. We are transforming energy into economic, environmental and social progress for tomorrow. Our corporate culture has been recognized by a variety of organizations, earning the company awards and recognitions that reflect Our Values and dedication to service. To learn more, visit www.southerncompany.com .

Southern Company invests in the well-being of its employees and their families through a comprehensive total rewards strategy that includes competitive base salary, annual incentive awards for eligible employees and health, welfare and retirement benefits designed to support physical, financial, and emotional/social well-being. This position may also be eligible for additional compensation, such as an incentive program, with the amount of any bonus/awards subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable incentive plan(s). A summary of the benefits offered for this position can be found here https://seo.nlx.org/southernco/pdf/SOCO-Benefits.pdf . Additional and specific details about total compensation and beneﬁts will also be provided during the hiring process.

Southern Company is an equal opportunity employer where an applicant's qualifications are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Job Identification: 8492

Job Category: Information Technology

Job Schedule: Full time

Company: Southern Company Services