Senior Maximo Solutions Architect

About us

 

Join National Grid’s digital transformation! We are digital creators, continuous learners and daring innovators. We leverage digital innovative ways to create products and catalyze the transformation of National Grid's business units into more agile and digitally native organizations in our shared purpose of bringing energy to life. Come and join us on this incredible journey, We need you!

 

We want to find an innovative, adaptable, and results-oriented Senior Maximo Solutions Architect to help develop and evolve our capabilities for our Enterprise Asset Management team in Waltham, MA (Candidates may also reside in either, Connecticut, New York, New Hampshire, or Rhode Island). These capabilities will allow us to provide an always improving experience to our customers while reducing our costs to serve them. If you yearn to be innovative, contribute new ideas, and play a critical part in the US Software Engineering organization, we want to hear from you!

What you'll do

 

As a Senior Maximo Solutions Architect, you'll understand the capabilities of the Maximo application as well as supporting technologies within the domain. You'll design and support the development of quality solution options in response to specific business and platform needs, ensuring that application capabilities are fully utilized and effectively optimized. You'll also evaluate technologies against vendor product roadmaps, competitive products, and market trends to ensure the solution meets current and future National Grid needs. You'll ensure that all solutions are fit for purpose, compliant, and adhere to all National Grid operational, architectural, and design standards and principles. You'll be esponsible for contributing and incorporating the domain roadmap, standards, and practices into the overall enterprise architecture plan. You will also need to support other solution development efforts guided by architects that involve their assigned domain. Key responsibilities include the following:

 

• Ensure the integrity of solution designs from concept through implementation, balancing the architectural concerns of projects with concerns of the enterprise.
• Mentor, consult and collaborate with technical subject matter experts to develop technology architecture that enables and drives new business capabilities and operating models.
• Provide design-related services at the blueprinting level and other phases of development. 
• Guide business stakeholders to solutions that maximize National Grid investment in technology.
• Provide thought leadership on innovative technical solutions to business stakeholders. 
• Identify, own, and support the delivery of global solutions for assigned projects. 
• Communicate the technical design of a significant program and the rationale driving that design within the architecture and wider community.
• Assist in the development of service level agreements and any associated service guarantees.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders to identify needs and propose alternative solutions. 
   

What you'll need

 

• A Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• A Minimum of 5 years of software development and/or support experience at an enterprise level.
• Familiarity with software development lifecycle management techniques with experience in product and vendor evaluation and technology rollout 
• Strong hands-on technical knowledge in application development, configuration and maintenance 
• Support of Enterprise Asset Management implementations, in a mid to large-scale enterprise.
• Knowledge and experience with Agile, SAFe, and Waterfall software development methodologies.
• Significant knowledge of client/server and web-based systems architectures 
• Networking concepts in a WAN environment
• Experience building out/standing up environments from an infrastructure delivery perspective 
• Ability to influence and build relationships and demonstrate team leadership in all interactions 
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills: Ability to express complex system concepts in terms that can be easily comprehended and effective for decision-making.  

 

Specific Technical Skills:

 

• Strong technical and functional experience working with IBM Maximo v 7.6 or later (EAM for utilities).
• Mastery knowledge of database technologies such as DB2, Oracle and SQL Server
• Mastery knowledge of middleware technologies such as Mulesoft and WebMethods
• Domain knowledge for server technologies such as Windows & Unix servers
• Mastery knowledge of