Principal Solution Architect, Maximo

About us

 

At National Grid, we keep people connected and society moving. But it’s so much more than that. National Grid supplies us with the environment to make it happen. As we generate momentum in the energy transition for all, we don’t plan on leaving any of our customers in the dark. So, join us as a Principal Solution Architect and find your superpower. We need you!

 

We want to find an innovative, adaptable, and results-oriented Principal Solution Architect for our IT Engineering department. This position can be located in Waltham, MA, Brooklyn, NY, Hicksville, NY, or Syracuse, NY (candidates may also reside in either Connecticut, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, or Maine). If you yearn to be innovative, contribute new ideas, and play a critical part in our IT & Digital organization, we want to hear from you!

What you'll do

 

As a Principal Solution 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 guarantee that all solutions are fit for purpose, compliant, and adhere to all National Grid operational, architectural, and design standards and principles. You'll be responsible for contributing and incorporating the domain roadmap, standards, and practices into the overall enterprise architecture plan.  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.
• 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.
• Assist in providing direction around incident resolution, development of standards and guidelines for application development

About you

 

• Bachelors degree in computer science or related discipline or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• 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.
• Knowledge of client/server and web-based systems architectures 
• Experience building out/standing up environments from an infrastructure delivery perspective    
• Specific Technical Skills:

 

         o    Strong technical and functional experience working with IBM Maximo v 7.6 or later (EAM for utilities).

         o    Mastery knowledge of database technologies such as DB2, Oracle and SQL Server

         o    Mastery knowledge of middleware technologies such as Mulesoft and WebMethods

         o    Domain knowledge for server technologies such as Windows & Unix servers

         o    Mastery knowledge of development languages and platforms such as Microsoft .Net, Java, and Microsoft Office suite.

 

More Information

 

Are you the right fit for this exciting role? You want to learn more about the position and National Grid's ambitious Digital Transformation? Then let's chat!

 

Rewarding work and a collaborative, team-oriented culture are just the beginning.  Review our digital benefit guide at ngbenefitslivebrighter.com for full details and descriptions. 

 

Our organization follows a hybrid work structure in our service territory (NY &