Principal or Senior Enterprise Architect

Principal or Senior Enterprise Architect

Full Time Perm

Way of Work

:

Hybrid – three days in-office

Salary Range:

$129,500 - $233,100, plus 10% annual bonus

Locations:

Columbus, OH, Canonsburg, PA, Merrillville, IN, Lexington, KY, Chester, VA, Washington DC

Relocation Assistance Provided

Reporting to the Head of Architecture, the Sr. and Principal Enterprise Architect works closely with the Application Development, Infrastructure, Security, Data & Analytics, and PMO teams to provide overall architecture leadership across NiSource. The Principal Enterprise Architect must possess deep technology experiences with One of the Five Domains to build out the architecture vision, strategy, and capability roadmap.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience envisioning and translating overall architecture with business needs via transformation roadmaps, establish target architecture and standards for the organization, building consensus, and provide guidance in the selling and execution within solution development processes of options and reuse points.

Essential Functions

- Provides senior level expertise on overall direction, guidance, definition, decisions, and priorities regarding the enterprise’s overall architecture to effectively support the organization business strategy.

- Interact with business leaders, IT leaders, vendors and industry experts to translate business requirements, understand options to capabilities, and create architecture blueprints and high-level solution designs for the most complex architectural components of a program.

- Strategy – Interfaces across several business areas, acting as a visionary to proactively assist in defining direction for future projects. Help business leaders and their teams think through the technology, business and operational implications of their technology investment decisions.

- Execution – Reviews, advises, and designs standard software and hardware builds, system options, risks, costs versus benefits, and impact on the enterprise business process and goals. Be the architecture thought leader and trusted go-to partner for Product and Engineering leadership across the organization, recommending innovative solutions to improve live and new system architectures.

- Operations – Facilitates the establishment and implementation of standards and reference material that guides the design of technology solutions. Lead architectural collaboration and governing processes including Architecture Review Boards, Solution Architecture reviews, exception management, and related processes.

- Innovation - Responsible for researching, analyzing, designing, proposing, and delivering solutions that are appropriate for the business and technologies strategies. Tracks industry trends and maintains knowledge of new technologies to better serve the enterprise’s architecture needs.

Technical responsibilities: We are hiring in four key areas

- Principal or Sr. Cloud Enterprise Architect

- Principal or Sr. DevSecOps Enterprise Architect

- Principal or Sr. Security Enterprise Architect

- Principal or Sr. Customer / Corporate Solutions Enterprise Architect

You must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.

Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor's Degree in related field or equivalent work experience

- 7-15+ years of relevant enterprise-wide architecture, including but not limited to Technology

- Cloud domain technologies listed: Azure compute products, Cisco, Docker, Equinix, Kubernetes, Microsoft solutions, Mulesoft, Palo Alto, ServiceNow, VMWare, OnPrem migrations to Cloud solutions

- Customer Channels & Corporate Systems technologies listed: Concourse- Copado- Copilot- Docker- Gearset- GitHub- Jenkins- Kubernetes- Postman- Salesforce- SAP- ServiceNow

- DevSecOps listed: Concourse- Copado- Copilot- Docker- Gearset- GitHub- Jenkins- Kubernetes- Postman- Salesforce- SAP- ServiceNow- SonarCube

- Security technologies listed: Palo Alto, Qualys, Proof Point, Splunk, CrowdStrike, CyberArk, Ping ID, Airlock, F5, ServiceNow, Cisco ISE, Pentera

- Deep understanding of various aspects of capabilities listed:

- Cloud: APIs, Automation, Cloud Services, Compute, Databases, Development Tools, End User Computing & Management, Infrastructure as Code, Logging & Monitoring, Network Segmentation (private & public), Runtime Environments, Security, Service Operations, Storage, Unified Communications

- Customer Channels & Corporate Systems capabilities listed: Agile Development - AI/ML- API Gateway & Management - Commerce - Composable Architecture - Customer Service - Development Tools- DevSecOps- HR - Integration- Marketing - Runtime Environments- Sales - Security - Supply Chain

- DevSecOps listed: AI/ML- API Gateway & Management- Application Components- Development Tools- DevSecOps- GenAI- Integration- Intelligent Automation- Runtime Environments- Security

- Security capabilities listed: Vulnerability Management, Network Security, Identity Management, Firewall Management, End Point Protection, Risk Management, Incident Response, Penetration Testing, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR), Data Loss Prevention, IPS/IDS, Cloud Services, IoT / OT Security, Data Encryption (In Motion and at Rest), Automation (DevSecOps)

- Deep knowledge of API-first design patterns

- Technology skills across multiple IT domains (e.g. application, data, infrastructure, security)

- Strong consultative skills at a cross-functional level

- Strong skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and LeanIX

- Knowledge of TOGAF, ITIL, and other architecture / business process frameworks

- Experience in application development, systems management, and/or project management is a plus

- Leadership competencies in:

- Organizing and Setting Priorities

- Managing and Measuring Work

- Peer Relationships

- Continuous Improvement

- Motivating Others

- Self-motivated; capable of managing multiple tasks

The preceding description is not designed to be a complete list of all duties and responsibilities required of the position.