Sr Enterprise Architect - Cloud and Infrastructure

Sr Enterprise Architect - Cloud and Infrastructure

NiSource is one of the largest fully regulated utility companies in the U.S., serving millions of customers across six states. We're more than an energy providerwe're a team committed to innovation, inclusion, and growth. At NiSource, you'll find a workplace that encourages collaboration, supports professional development, and empowers employees to make an impact.

Reporting to the Head of Architecture, the Sr Enterprise Architect works closely with the Application Development, Infrastructure, Security, PMO, Data and Analytics teams to provide overall architecture leadership across NiSource. The Sr Enterprise Architect will build out the architecture vision, strategy, and capability roadmap. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience envisioning and translating overall architecture with business needs via transformation roadmaps, establish target architecture and standards for the organization, building consensus, and provide guidance in the selling and execution within solution development processes of options and reuse points.

Your additional responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

Provides senior level expertise on overall direction, guidance, definition, decisions, and priorities regarding the enterprise's overall architecture to effectively support the organization business strategy.

Interact with business leaders, IT leaders, vendors and industry experts to translate business requirements, understand options to capabilities, and create architecture blueprints and high-level solution designs for the most complex architectural components of a program.

Strategy Interfaces across several business areas, acting as a visionary to proactively assist in defining direction for future projects. Help business leaders and their teams think through the technology, business and operational implications of their technology investment decisions.

Execution Reviews, advises, and designs standard software and hardware builds, system options, risks, costs versus benefits, and impact on the enterprise business process and goals. Be the architecture thought leader and trusted go-to partner for Product and Engineering leadership across the organization, recommending innovative solutions to improve live and new system architectures.

Operations Facilitates the establishment and implementation of standards and reference material that guides the design of technology solutions. Lead architectural collaboration and governing processes including Architecture Review Boards, Solution Architecture reviews, exception management, and related processes.

Innovation - Responsible for researching, analyzing, designing, proposing, and delivering solutions that are appropriate for the business and technologies strategies. Tracks industry trends and maintains knowledge of new technologies to better serve the enterprise's architecture needs.

You must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience

5+ years of relevant enterprise-wide architecture

Cloud domain technologies listed: Azure compute products, Cisco, Docker, Equinix, Kubernetes, Microsoft solutions, Mulesoft, Palo Alto, ServiceNow, VMWare, OnPrem migrations to Cloud solutions

Cloud capabilities listed: APIs, Automation, Cloud Services, Compute, Databases, Development Tools, End User Computing & Management, Infrastructure as Code, Logging & Monitoring, Network Segmentation (private & public), Runtime Environments, Security, Service Operations, Storage, Unified Communications

Deep knowledge of API-first design patterns

Strong consultative skills at a cross-functional level

Knowledge of TOGAF, ITIL, and other architecture / business process frameworks

Leadership competencies in: Organizing and Setting Priorities, Managing and Measuring Work, Peer Relationships, Continuous Improvement, Motivating Others, Self-motivated; capable of managing multiple tasks