Principal Software Architect

Description

• Architecture Reviews and Coordination: Contribute to writing Architecture Decision Records, participate in architecture reviews, as part of the Architecture Review Board, and communicate decisions for the GridOS Operate and Transact application teams.
• Documentation: Ensure that data modeling and API standards are accurately documented and maintained in collaboration with documentation teams. Drive the use of contract-based development and testing models across the GridOS Operate and Transact engineering teams.
• Provide Technical Guidance for Product Teams: Act as a mentor for junior technical team members and provide direction, oversight, and clear technical documentation for application architecture that is readily implementable by the Product Engineering teams.
• Backlog Planning and Dependency Management: Work across GridOS Operate and Transact software teams to support backlog planning, identify, and manage cross-team dependencies as it applies to architecture standards and deliverables for GridOS Operate and Transact solutions.
• Formalizing Data Models and API Standards: Lead the formalization and standardization of data models and API standards, in alignment with our architecture core team, for our GridOS Operate and Transact applications, ensuring interoperability, scale, performance and efficiency.
• Knowledge Transfer and Collaboration: Work with the Architecture SteerCo and Developer Standard Experience teams to establish standard practices and design patterns for GridOS Operate and Transact platforms, applications and services, in alignment with our architectural standards for GridOS.

Requirements

• Services Architecture: Understanding of services architecture and software development for distributed systems and across hybrid cloud and on-prem deployments.
• Data Architecture and Modeling: Extensive experience in designing and implementing data architectures and common data models.
• CI/CD and DevSecOps: Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps practices, and GitOps, especially in secure, air-gapped environments including hybrid deployments.
• Energy Industry Technologies: Familiarity with key technologies specific to the energy industry, such as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Geospatial network modeling, etc.
• API Standards: Expertise in defining and implementing API and service standards to ensure seamless integration and data exchange between systems. This should include experience defining contract-based development models between teams.
• GE Solutions Experience: Experience in ADMS, OMS and Power Applications architecture and implementation
• Kubernetes: Understanding of Kubernetes, including software development in an orchestrated services architecture. This includes Kubernetes APIs, custom resources, API aggregation, Helm, and manifest standardization.
• Mobile Software Architecture: Knowledge of mobile software architecture for field crew operations, offline support, and near-real time operation is preferred
• Data Mesh and Data Fabric: Understanding of data mesh and data fabric principles, enabling software composability and data-centric design trade-offs.
• Disaggregation of Systems into Services: Deep understanding of methods, strategies and patterns for modernizing existing monolith applications into a composable set of right sized microservices and API’s on live systems over time.
• Common Information Model (CIM): In-depth knowledge of CIM standards and their application within the energy sector.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with minimum 8 years of experience architecting large scale distributed systems in a product organization.

Benefits

• The Company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance