Solution Architect GridOS - ADMS

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Job Description Summary

You are a technical client-focused Solution specialist who seeks to understand emerging energy industry trends and implications on utilities.
As “Solution Architect GridOS - ADMS” will be part of the Solution Design team, dedicated to ensuring best in class and optimal technical design to meet customer functional and non-functional requirements, project budget and timescale. You will drive, validate and audit the design of the solution during the different phases of the execution of a project (Scope Review, Statement of Work, Solution review, Factory Acceptance Tests, Site Acceptance Tests…)

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities – Day-to-day

As “Solution Architect GridOS - ADMS”” you will:

·  Engage with utility clients to understand their business needs and the impact of emerging trends as distributed energy resources (DERs) on their distribution system.
·  Collaborate with the Services function (Delivery Manager and Project Manager), to interact with customers defining, producing and maintaining an optimal Solution Design based on customer needs and products capabilities.
·  Own the design deliverables (Statement of Work, Solution Architecture documents), ensure traceability of requirements with solutions proposed.
·  Be responsible for the communication and enforcement of the Solution Design to Customer and Key Project Stakeholders.
·  Manage involvement of other SMEs (e.g. business analysts, IT / Cybersecurity experts) and make sure their design contributions meet system architecture functional and non-functional requirements.
·  Drive excellence in execution through continuous improvement in their segment or domain (best practices and reference material - reference architectures, reference solutions)
·  Collaborate with Product Managers & Engineering (Customer Voice, Return on Experience, product enhancements, reference architectures)
·  Build technical expertise in the field of their segment or domain. Deliver technical consultancy services on demand
·  Coordinate knowledge capitalization and dissemination across the Services & Solution Design teams,
·  Be accountable for activities planning, progress reporting, and completing activities in his scope as per approved budget.

Qualifications/Requirements – Must Have

·  Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a similar program, with a focus on Computer Science and Electrical Engineering /Power systems.
·  Electricity Industry knowledge, with relevant work experience as a Business Analyst, consultant, or developer
·  You understand how to trace a requirement to a design specification and the test plans / cases
·  You bring software development experience and integrating custom solutions with a product, in our case the GE Vernova GridOS ADMS product
·  Experience with Linux, Source code Management, Virtualization, Cloud Architecture (AWS and/or Azure), Micro-services architectures, 
·  Experience of cloud and cloud native technologies such as containers and Kubernetes,
·  Exposure to iterative product development and program management techniques including Agile, Safe, Scrum, DevOps…
·  Strong problem-solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments
·  Professional English level.

Qualifications/Requirements – Nice to Have    

·  Knowledge of emerging energy industry trends and implications on utility customers (Renewables and DER orchestration, distribution planning, IT, SCADA)
·  Experience in Services – Software Commissioning

Note
This Job Description is intended to provide a high level guide to the role. However, it is not intended to amend or otherwise restrict/expand the duties required from each individual employee as set out in their respective employment contract and/or as otherwise agreed between an employee and their manager.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No