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:

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Engage with utility clients to understand their business needs and the impact of emerging trends as distributed energy resources (DERs) on their distribution system.

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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.

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Own the design deliverables (Statement of Work, Solution Architecture documents), ensure traceability of requirements with solutions proposed.

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Be responsible for the communication and enforcement of the Solution Design to Customer and Key Project Stakeholders.

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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.

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Drive excellence in execution through continuous improvement in their segment or domain (best practices and reference material - reference architectures, reference solutions)

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Collaborate with Product Managers & Engineering (Customer Voice, Return on Experience, product enhancements, reference architectures)

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Build technical expertise in the field of their segment or domain. Deliver technical consultancy services on demand

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Coordinate knowledge capitalization and dissemination across the Services & Solution Design teams,

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Be accountable for activities planning, progress reporting, and completing activities in his scope as per approved budget.

Qualifications/Requirements – Must Have

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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 – Nice to Have    

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Knowledge of emerging energy industry trends and implications on utility customers (Renewables and DER orchestration, distribution planning, IT/OT, SCADA)

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Experience in Services – Software Commissioning

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Experience of utility network management systems, ideally in the electricity industry

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Experience of SCADA

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Exposure to Outage Management and Customer Call Centre applications

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Familiarity with CIM / CGMES standards, IEC 61970/61968, or other energy modeling frameworks.

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Familiarity with power systems analysis e.g. load flow, short circuit analysis

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Experience of system integration e.g. SOAP, REST, Kafka etc.

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Experience of scripting and/or programming languages e.g. shell, perl, python, java etc.

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Familiarity with database technologies including RDBMS, SQL, NOSQL and data modelling, data migration

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No