Junior Enterprise Architect - Cloud

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 cloud 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.

This position does not provide employment pursuant to the terms of a STEM OPT Training Plan.

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
• Share 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
• Collaborate 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 highperforming team by inspiring, coaching, and challenging staff, advancing enterprise architecture adoption, fostering a standardsdriven culture, and strengthening inhouse 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

• Master's Degree and a minimum 2 years of relevant full-time work experience or
• Bachelor's Degree and a minimum 3 years of relevant full-time work experience or
• Associate's Degree and a minimum 5 years of relevant full-time work experience or
• High School Diploma/GED and a minimum 7 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

• Experience in evaluating various technologies and establishing standard designs, required
• Experience in the design and implementation of cyber security measures to protect resources, data, and applications in the cloud or on-prem to ensure that architectures comply with company/industry standards and regulations, required
• Ability to collaborate with IT and business stakeholders to align cloud initiatives with organizational objectives, required
• Solid expertise in cloud and onpremises networking and security technologies including testing/troubleshooting best practices, required
• Ability to create in-depth technology reference architectures, technology playbooks, and detailed design diagrams, required
• Experience in developing, designing and implementing detailed scalable cloud architectures and technology roadmaps across the leading cloud hyperscale platforms (GCP, Azure, AWS, OCI), preferred
• Experience working with application developers, engineers, and designers to deliver innovative on-premises and cloud (PaaS, IaaS, SaaS) hybrid technology solutions using Azure, GCP, AWS and/or Oracle OCI, preferred
• 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, preferred

• 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

• 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

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

• 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.