Job Description Summary

Under the general direction of the GE Vernova (GEV) NAM Commercial Operations Director, the Senior System Architect in the energy sector leads the pre and post sales design, development, and implementation of complex innovative solutions, in the advanced electrification business, using key offerings – including Distribution Automation, Process Bus Digital Substations, Cyber security, Top-Down Engineering Solutions.

This individual will work alongside the business development and sales teams to analyze business needs, translate them into technical specifications, and ensure alignment with the company's overall technology strategy. Daily interaction often involves interfacing with cross-functional teams, guiding technology roadmaps, and staying abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies, bridging the collaboration between the tendering and sales functions. Design innovative customer or project specific applications to meet each system need and achieve the goals and objectives for successful power system operation.

This role is customer facing, from field engineering level to the company vice president, and must possess experience interfacing as a trusted technical advisor at every phase. This position will require experience with presenting, demonstrating, and supporting proof of concepts. This is a seasoned senior level system (solutions) architect engineer.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

• Interface with internal and external customers, identify customer needs
• Contribute to qualifying assigned opportunities, actively contribute to pursuit of the strategy
• Lead the team in the overall systems solution offered to Grid Automation customers
• Design comprehensive scalable, and interoperable solutions to meet customer needs, including integrated digital substations, centralized and distributed architectures incorporating hardware, software, and communication interfaces
• Design solutions which are cyber-resilience, customer compliant, and budget optimized
• Develop, standardize and maintain solution architecture designs and drawings
• Create unique solution differentiators aligned with market needs and addressing customer pain points
• Demonstrate value propositions through technical performance, total cost of ownership (TCO), and system wide benefits
• Initiate proof-of-concept (PoC), Demos, Workshops and pilot project initiatives to showcase solution feasibility and benefits
• Lead deal structure development and maximize business product pull-through as well as support cross selling of the broader GE Vernova portfolio
• Work closely with the North America sales teams as a key partner in the strategy development to create winning proposals which drive to meet or exceed the region’s orders plan
• Support market level pricing indicators and pricing strategy
• Support the proposal process improvement and proposal quality metrics
• Support defining project materials and obtain vendor quotations as needed
• Identify technical risks including new product development needs in conjunction with tendering team to secure necessary business commitments to mitigate any risks
• Follow all GEV Corporate and local policies and procedures including but not limited to Integrity, Diversity, Proprietary Information, Conflict of Interest, QMS and EHS
• Perform other related duties as required for success of this position
• Lead or participate in customer workshops, solution co-creation sessions, and deep-dive technical discussions
• Lead and/or support customer negotiations as required
• Travel in U.S. and Canada is required to support the Sales, Business Development and Proposal teams

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or related field from an accredited college or university with a minimum of 10 years of experience in similar role or senior project engineering role
• OR knowledge level is comparable to equivalent of 15-20 years of experience in electrical engineering field for utilities and industrials
• This role requires significant experience in the Electrical Engineering/Technology & Systems (Solutions) Architecture and Design

​Desired Characteristics

• Skilled exposure to the Protection & Control and/or Electrical Engineering industries with extended experience designing complete innovative solutions with Software Solutions, e.g. EnergyAPM, Device Management (DvM)
• Experience in one or more of the following areas:  Electric Power Distribution Automation, Process Bus, Substation Digitization, Monitoring & Diagnostics, Asset Performance Management (APM), Device Manageme