Principal Solution Architect- Digital (Remote)

Job Description

Description

At Constellation, a freshly independent and Fortune 200 company, we're providing the energy and services to transform our future. Combining next generation technologies and product offerings with the country's lowest carbon generating fleet, our company is purpose-built to meet the challenges of the climate crisis.

Constellation has been the leader in clean energy production for more than a decade. Now we're speeding delivery of low-carbon or no-carbon power to help families, communities, governments, and businesses meet their sustainability and decarbonization goals. Constellation provides 10 percent of total clean power and 22 percent of clean baseload power in the United States and is the leading competitive retail supplier of energy products, services and clean energy solutions. The race is on to confront climate change, and no company is more ready to meet that challenge.

We are committed to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion and believe in attracting, retaining and advancing employees who will best serve and represent our customers, partners and communities. We provide a workplace that ensures mutual respect, where each individual has the opportunity to grow and contribute at their greatest potential. Constellation will provide you the tools and resources you need to design, build and power a successful career.

Join us as we accelerate the transition to a carbon-free future. Energize your career with Constellation.

PRIMARY PURPOSE OF POSITION 

A Principal Solution Architect at Constellation Energy drives technical vision for a business unit IT department or functional area and aligns technical solutions and platforms to the company strategy.  Principal Solution Architects must have a broad base of technical and business understanding as well as the attention to detail to transform a strategy into an actionable plan. The successful Architect will demonstrate knowledge to navigate recent technology trends and connect it with the business goals to act as an influencer and change agent, as well as a technical advisor for executive leaders. 

A successful Principal Solution Architect will own the IT enablement of the business strategy, accelerate project delivery and improve delivery quality via three primary activities:

• • Define Solution Architecture: The Solution Architect will recommend a solution architecture to (1) best meet the goals of the project, (2) align with Constellation’s overall strategic technology roadmap, (3) comply with Constellation’s technology standards and best practices. The architecture will be documented in Constellation’s architecture repository and in other formats (e.g., PowerPoint) to optimize stakeholder communication and understanding, and (4) enable value-added outcomes that align to the business strategy 
  • Ownership of the Intersection of Design and Success Criteria: The Solution Architect will collaboratively work with IT and business project teams to understand goals and desired outcomes and use this as a key input to architectural design processes and deliverables 
  • The Solution Architect (SA) will remain engaged and support the project design, development, and deployment phases to ensure continuous alignment and Architecture design compliance. SA works closely with enterprise architects, developers, and project managers to identify and assess any risks/mitigations and/or update the architecture deliverables accordingly. SA requires thorough understanding and hands on experience of SDLC methodologies and agile/waterfall project execution models. SA needs to gather and evaluate user and management feedback to iteratively improve the business application landscape. 

• • The Solution Architect may take a hands-on role working with development teams to ensure the design and implementation of new or upgraded systems. This includes but is not limited to participation on application, data and integration architecture decisions. In addition to project engagement, the SA plays an integral role in the operational effectiveness of the solution and future roadmap discussions with internal and external teams. 

PRIMARY DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES  

1. Translate business needs into IT solutions & develop portfolio specific strategy and roadmaps. Leverage rigorous design methodologies that consistently yield the right level of technical and high-level design documentation and develop technical solutions, which may include custom development and/or extending commercial products, that conform both to customer requirements and solution development standards. Make sure that the solution landscape conforms to Enterprise Architecture framework (30%)
2. Review cost and design optimized solutions (10%)
3. Ability to act as a key member of the project team and provide leadership to guide application design and development. Assist in problem resolution and support the development team through consultation and problem research. Work as equals with engineering/development staff for optimal design/delivery (20%)
4. Communicating solution concepts to all levels of management including presentations, proof of concept demonstrations, and overviews. Establish strong relationships with all stakeholders (15%)
5. Own and evangelize governance mechanisms and ensure that architecture deliverables meet/exceed governance standards (10%)
6. Proven facilitation, influencing, oral and written communication and presentation skills  (5%)
7. Provide coaching/ mentorship for IT personnel. Participate in career development and recognition activities. Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion and foster teamwork, collaboration, and a learning organization (10%)

Expected salary range of $139,500 - $155,000 per year, varies based on experience, along with comprehensive benefits package that includes bonus and 401k.

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree (Computer Science or related field) and 8-10 years' experience in IT Architecture
• Strong verbal, written and presentation skills
• 4+ years architecture experience in Microsoft Azure cloud services for application development
• Experience with the Microsoft stack (i.e.. Net6/.Net Core, C#)
• Experience with enterprise relational and document databases (i.e., Mongo DB, Cosmos, Oracle, or SQL Server)
• 4-6 years of deep software development lifecycle (SDLC) experience with custom developed software and/or commercially available products
• Experience with one or more architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman, Feld Group, etc.)
• Experience with large scale highly integrated applications
• Knowledge of modern application frameworks and patterns (i.e., microservices, containers, etc.)
• Strong Deployment Architecture design and implementation experience        
• Experience with all elements of change management with a high-level understanding of environment management, release management, code versioning best practices, and deployment methodologies.
• Proven capacity to work independently and manage multiple, competing demands
• Able to take high level requirements and develop software architecture 
• Ability to travel domestically 

Preferred specifications

• Master’s Degree
• Professional IT Architecture education or certification is preferred, but not required 
• Experience with the Open Group’s ArchiMate modeling language is strongly preferred, but not required
• Experience with Salesforce CRM platform architecture

POSITION SCOPE

• • Position interacts with all levels of employees, including executives, and vendors
  • Consults on the design, connectivity, maintenance, review, approval, testing and communication of business plans
  • Position has expertise in Microsoft and/or Oracle technologies and the integration of related services
  • Position has senior level expertise and design competency in platform or application area of expertise, and tools/systems associated with these functions
  • Detail-oriented with excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills 
  • Growth mindset with a desire to learn, a tendency to embrace challenges, persist in the face of setback, see failures as essential to mastery, learn from criticism and find lessons and inspiration in the success of others.
  • Help to create a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can bring their authentic self, where all voices are heard, and where we do our best work as a result.
  • Confident, articulate, and able to influence an audience with varying views and perspectives.
  • A sense of personal ownership and accountability is required, with the ability to develop and deliver to deadlines while managing internal stakeholder expectations.
  • Self-motivated with a strong drive for reaching across teams and organizations to make progress collaboratively.
  • Operate independently with little or no supervision.
  • Mentor junior-level team members and others.