GIS Solution Architect

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Job Title: Senior Solution Architect
Job ID: 1103
Location: Hybrid 10-20% would be ideal onsite at Dublin, CA
Duration: Must be local to the San Francisco Bay Area or willing to travel up to 50 percent.

Top Things:

• Cloud Architecture
• SAP S4 HANA
• Esri GIS Utility Network experience
• ADMS familiarity

Serves as technology expert providing direction and problem-solving advice by reviewing all active Systems Integration projects. Responsible for the long-range direction of an organization's technology function. Provides technical leadership and recommendations on market trends and internal research and development budgets investment direction.
Designs new solutions for customers. Serves as the top-level technical expert by creating high-level architectural views depicting the different architectural aspects of the solution and addressing problems of systems integration and compatibility based on requirement specifications by performing the following duties.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following: (Other duties may be assigned)

• Provides overall technical leadership for a systems implementation and integration program
• Manages all technical deliverables for the program, including architectural specifications, usecase development, requirements gathering, specification, and validation
• Provides technical direction for software development teams and quality assurance personnel
• Creates and maintains programmatic and technical documentation to ensure efficient planning and execution
• Provides project methodologies and deliverable templates for solution architecture, requirements, software engineering, software design, test engineering
• Ensures deliverables are thoroughly tested and meet customer expectations
• Creates and executes GIS system tuning and system threshold testing procedures
• Generates project user scenarios to drive system architecture sizing models using GIS vendor supplied system architecture spreadsheets
• Creates system deployment views that include specifying all required software components and sizing of the system hardware components
• Able to lead enterprise GIS road mapping workshops for both electric and gas utilities and develop multiple business release roadmaps that allow the client to plan and budget against
• Helps UDC s utility clients pass their internal implementation project reviews

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required:

• Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership for implementation and integration
• Ability to generate solution architecture documents, use-case development, requirements gathering, specification and validation
• Proven ability to provide technical direction for software development teams and quality assurance
• Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communications and customer relations skills.
• Demonstrates a high degree of personal and professional integrity.
• Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor's degree and Master s degree in related discipline (e.g., Information Technology, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Electric Engineering, Mechanical/Civil Engineering or equivalent), or equivalent utility and consulting work experience.
• 8-10 years of work experience in support of related utility consulting or large-scale process/technology projects.
• Experience in the electric and gas transmission and distribution industries. Good understanding of general utility business processes, their related business systems, their value for utilities and how the business systems should be integrated and enhanced with enterprise

GIS technology:

• Construction: EAM, GWD, GIS, mGIS, MWM, Engineering Analysis, Engineering Stationing
• Operations: OMS, SCADA, DMS, ADMS, DERMS, DRMS, AMI/MDMS, SA, DA, Gas OMS
• Asset Management: EAM, GIS, mGIS, MWM, Interruption Reliability Analysis, DIMP, TIMP, Linear Referencing, Content Management, Smart Grid Data Repository, Pole Inspections, Tower Inspections, Line Patrols, Circuit Patrols, Vegetation Management
• Pipeline Safety Management: GIS, mGIS, EAM, SCADA, Content Management, Engineering Analysis, DIMP, TIMP, Leak Surveys, Incident Management, CP Surveys, Valve Inspections, Regulator Inspections, Odorant Inspections, MSA Inspections, Structure Inspections, Pipeline Surveys
• Operational Awareness: Executive, Management, Operations and Customer Dashboards

Computer Skills To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of the following languages, frameworks, methodologies, and software.

• Familiarity with Agile implementation methodologies and artifacts, working knowledge of solution architecture multi-view methodologies and software tools used to generate them, and ability to pragmatically apply system engineering and software engineering methodologies to fit the needs of our utility clients.
• Strong PC skills required, including use of standard MS Office applications and Microsoft Project.