Systems Specialist - Junior Enterprise Architect (Applications)

Overview

Con Edison is seeking an Architect with a strong technology foundation who is eager to grow into a future enterprise architecture leader. The role provides technical leadership within delivery teams, helps optimize the technology landscape and contributes to both short-term and long-term Enterprise Tech & Security (ETS) strategy. The role also includes coaching and guidance from senior enterprise architects to support continuous learning and growth.

The application architecture role is dedicated to fostering innovation and collaborating with both business and IT stakeholders. Serving as a liaison between business and ETS, the architect develops and maintains technology capability roadmaps, reference architecture, best practices, guidelines, and leads application rationalization efforts. This position works in close partnership with application owners, domain architects, and developers to ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and effectively support business objectives. By evaluating integration options across IT domains, the architect guides the development of business solutions utilizing advanced technologies. Additionally, the specialist is instrumental in establishing and collaborating on technical standards related to development, integration, and system maintenance.

Responsibilities

Core Responsibilities

- Lead proof-of-concept initiatives to promote Enterprise Architecture understanding. Develop reference materials, enforce architectural/cyber security standards, and design both conceptual and physical application architectures, including business process frameworks

- Oversee architecture, solution reviews, and ensure compliance with ETS standards. Coordinates with internal teams and partners to address issues and supports teams in implementing established architectural strategies

- Shares expertise ensures that teams are continuously improving and learning together to meet current and future IT engineering and architecture needs; creates robust designs that promote safety, operational excellence and minimize unplanned outages

- Collaborates with Engineering, Operations, Cyber Security, Network Systems, and peer ETS teams to plan, review design packages, and integrate IT deliverables within projects. Develops comprehensive Request for Proposal (RFP) specifications; identifies, assesses, and recommends new enterprise-level data technology solutions to support both current and future capital project requirements and objectives

- Strong desire and initiative to lead and drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly and champion new concepts

- Lead and develop a team of direct reports, fostering a highperforming environment while advancing enterprise architecture adoption, strengthening a standardsbased culture, and cultivating organizational expertise and talent

- Strong project management skills, quick learner, self-starter. This is a leadership position working with a wide range of technical and non-technical audiences. Will be expected to come up with costs and risks and make a holistic recommendation for introducing new technologies

- Perform other duties as needed. Be available 24/7 for on-call and emergency response when required

Qualifications

Required Education/Experience

- Bachelor's Degree and a minimum 5 years of relevant full-time work experience

Preferred Education/Experience

- Master's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Math, Engineering or business-related disciplines and a minimum 5 years of relevant full-time work experience

- Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Math, Engineering or business-related disciplines and a minimum 5 years of relevant full-time work experience

Relevant Work Experience

- Strong foundation in business and IT applications and technology systems development lifecycle, and integration best practices to influence business and IT projects, required

- Strong understanding and experience in cyber security concepts and best practices for both cloud and on-premises systems, required

- Solid understanding of architectural concepts and practices leading to solutions that are reliable, maintainable, reusable, scalable and extensible, e.g., developing applications and/or databases, required

- Proficiency with exploring and querying databases including the SQL coding language, required

- Sound understanding of application protection best practices and solutions for cloud and on-premises platforms, required

- Demonstrated practical experience with multiple programming languages (.net , python, PowerShell) and various relational database management systems (RDBMS), required

- Experience integrating disparate data sources (including internal and external data) using data transformation technologies, e.g., SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) and/or related cloud services, required

- Conversant in data management concepts and practices, e.g., data stewardship, master data management, data quality, data cataloging, required

- Experience in evaluating technology and establishing standard designs, required

- Project management experience includes the skills to establish medium and long-term plans and priorities and estimate investment requirements, required

- Must be comfortable and skilled at selling new processes and techniques. Must be able to communicate designs and give persuasive presentations. Must be able to interact with all levels of management and communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience, required

- Demonstrate project management skills including the ability to develop plans for and track multiple assignments with changing priorities while meeting deadlines; ability to estimate investment requirements, required

- Ability to work in a collaborative team environment, required

- Experienced or conversant in emerging tools like NoSQL databases and unstructured data stores to guide the organization in understanding and adopting them, preferred

- Familiarity with secure coding practices and experience using GitHub, preferred

- Conversant in emerging technologies and practices, e.g., cloud computing components and data services in Azure and/or AWS or other cloud providers, preferred

- Skilled in deploying, configuring, and testing cloud application and data services. Once deployed, become the technical subject matter expert, and lead and train cloud operations personnel, preferred

- Hands on experience working with on-premises, cloud (PaaS, IaaS, SaaS), hybrid models and building secure applications with complex data integration and system integration patterns, preferred

- Experience with database storage technologies for semi-structured data (e.g., JSON) and unstructured data (e.g., documents), preferred

- Experience working with application developers, engineers, and designers to deliver innovative technology solutions using AWS (Amazon Web Services), Azure, and/or Oracle OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) cloud services, preferred

- Experience Data Governance (Data Cataloguing, Data Quality, Meta Data management) technology like Azure Purview and Google Data plex, preferred

Skills and Abilities

- Effective interpersonal skills

- Ability to drive multiple projects to successful completion

- Demonstrated problem solving skills

- Strong written and verbal communication skills

- Possesses strong technical aptitude

- Proactively approaches responsibilities

- Ability to lead/manage others

Licenses and Certifications

- Driver's License Required

- Other: Training and/or certification in the data domain (data governance and data architecture) e.g., TOGAF, DAMA CDMP, ICCP, ITIL, CSM, CCSP, CISM, CISA, CISSP, Microsoft Azure Data Certifications, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, etc. Preferred

Physical Demands

- Sit or stand to use a keyboard, mouse, and computer for the duration of the workday

Additional Physical Demands

- The selected candidate will be assigned a System Emergency Assignment (i.e., an emergency response role) and will be expected to work non-business hours during emergencies, which may include nights, weekends, and holidays.

- Must be flexible and able to work off-hours as required to support deployments, help resolve production problems or respond to corporate emergencies.