Enterprise Architect, Principal - Compute and Storage

Requisition ID # 174025 

Job Category: Information Technology 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Technology & Security

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

 

 

Department Overview

Information Systems Technology Services is a unified organization comprised of various departments which collaborate effectively in order to deliver high quality technology solutions.

Position Summary 

Enterprise Strategy & Architecture (ES&A) is a centralized architecture organization within the Information Technology department. ES&A supports the company’s safety, reliability, affordability, and regulatory objectives by providing clear architectural direction, disciplined governance, and practical guidance that accelerates delivery while reducing risk and complexity. 

Reporting to the Senior Manager Technology Architecture, this role serves as the Enterprise Architect responsible for Compute & Storage architecture across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The role defines the strategy, target architecture, standards, and roadmaps for enterprise compute platforms, storage services, backup and recovery capabilities, workload placement, and data resiliency solutions. 

The successful candidate is a systems‑level thinker and master planner who translates enterprise strategy into living target architectures, prioritized roadmaps, and reusable patterns, working early and continuously with delivery and operations teams to ensure solutions are aligned, secure, and executable. Architects in this role are expected to focus on enabling outcomes and delivery. 

PG&E is providing the full salary/pay range for this position.  The actual amount paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, internal equity, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, and geographic location.  The range to reasonably expect will be around the minimum and the midpoint $155,000 - $210,000.  The final decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to the factors above. This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.  

  

Bay Area Min: $ 155,000 

Bay Area Max: $ 265,000 

  

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and 1-2 days per week at our Oakland Headquarters based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory.  

 

Key Responsibilities 

Architecture Vision & Direction 

• Define and evolve the enterprise Compute & Storage target architecture, including hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure strategies.  

• Develop capability-based roadmaps that advance infrastructure modernization, resiliency, and operational efficiency.  

• Establish architectural principles, standards, and reference architectures for enterprise compute, storage, backup, replication, and disaster recovery platforms.  

• Drive strategic decisions for workload placement by balancing cost, performance, resilience, operational complexity, and regulatory requirements.  

• Ensure infrastructure architecture aligns with enterprise technology strategy, cloud adoption plans, and modernization initiatives. 

Compute & Storage Scope 

• Define and govern the enterprise compute and storage across on-premises, hybrid, AWS, and Azure environments, including workload placement, infrastructure standards, and reusable compute/storage building blocks. 

• Architect compute platforms and hosting foundations, including VM platforms, clustering, cloud IaaS integration, container hosting dependencies, infrastructure templates, and platform interoperability across environments.  

• Architect enterprise storage ecosystems across block, file, object, archival, backup, and cloud-native storage services, including storage tiering, data placement, efficiency, lifecycle management, and backup class standards.  

• Define resilient data protection and mobility patterns across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including replication, backup and restore, disaster recovery, RPO/RTO guidance, r