Systems Specialist - Junior Enterprise Architect (Applications)

Con Edison is seeking an Architect with a strong technology foundation who is eager to grow into a future enterprise architecture leader. The role provides technical leadership within delivery teams, helps optimize the technology landscape and contributes to both short-term and long-term Enterprise Tech & Security (ETS) strategy. The role also includes coaching and guidance from senior enterprise architects to support continuous learning and growth.

The application architecture role is dedicated to fostering innovation and collaborating with both business and IT stakeholders. Serving as a liaison between business and ETS, the architect develops and maintains technology capability roadmaps, reference architecture, best practices, guidelines, and leads application rationalization efforts. This position works in close partnership with application owners, domain architects, and developers to ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and effectively support business objectives. By evaluating integration options across IT domains, the architect guides the development of business solutions utilizing advanced technologies. Additionally, the specialist is instrumental in establishing and collaborating on technical standards related to development, integration, and system maintenance.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead proof-of-concept initiatives to promote Enterprise Architecture understanding. Develop reference materials, enforce architectural/cyber security standards, and design both conceptual and physical application architectures, including business process frameworks
• Oversee architecture, solution reviews, and ensure compliance with ETS standards. Coordinates with internal teams and partners to address issues and supports teams in implementing established architectural strategies
• Shares expertise ensures that teams are continuously improving and learning together to meet current and future IT engineering and architecture needs; creates robust designs that promote safety, operational excellence and minimize unplanned outages
• Collaborates with Engineering, Operations, Cyber Security, Network Systems, and peer ETS teams to plan, review design packages, and integrate IT deliverables within projects. Develops comprehensive Request for Proposal (RFP) specifications; identifies, assesses, and recommends new enterprise-level data technology solutions to support both current and future capital project requirements and objectives
• Strong desire and initiative to lead and drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly and champion new concepts
• Lead and develop a team of direct reports, fostering a highperforming environment while advancing enterprise architecture adoption, strengthening a standardsbased culture, and cultivating organizational expertise and talent
• Strong project management skills, quick learner, self-starter. This is a leadership position working with a wide range of technical and non-technical audiences. Will be expected to come up with costs and risks and make a holistic recommendation for introducing new technologies
• Perform other duties as needed. Be available 24/7 for on-call and emergency response when required

Required Education/Experience

• Bachelor's Degree and a minimum 5 years of relevant full-time work experience

Preferred Education/Experience

• Master's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Math, Engineering or business-related disciplines and a minimum 5 years of relevant full-time work experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Math, Engineering or business-related disciplines and a minimum 5 years of relevant full-time work experience

Relevant Work Experience

• Strong foundation in business and IT applications and technology systems development lifecycle, and integration best practices to influence business and IT projects, required
• Strong understanding and experience in cyber security concepts and best practices for both cloud and on-premises systems, required
• Solid understanding of architectural concepts and practices leading to solutions that are reliable, maintainable, reusable, scalable and extensible, e.g., developing applications and/or databases, required
• Proficiency with exploring and querying databases including the SQL coding language, required
• Sound understanding of application protection best practices and solutions for cloud and on-premises platforms, required
• Demonstrated practical experience with multiple programming languages (.net , python, PowerShell) and various relational database management systems (RDBMS), required
• Experience integrating disparate data sources (including internal and external data) using data transformation technologies, e.g., SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), Oracle Data Integra