Solution Architect - GridOS ADMS

Job Description Summary

You are a technical client-focused Solution specialist who seeks to understand emerging energy industry trends and implications on utilities.
As "Solution Architect GridOS - ADMS" will be part of the Solution Design team, dedicated to ensuring best in class and optimal technical design to meet customer functional and non-functional requirements, project budget and timescale. You will drive, validate and audit the design of the solution during the different phases of the execution of a project (Scope Review, Statement of Work, Solution review, Factory Acceptance Tests, Site Acceptance Tests,...)

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities - Day-to-day

As "Solution Architect GridOS - ADMS"" you will:

• Engage with utility clients to understand their business needs and the impact of emerging trends as distributed energy resources (DERs) on their distribution system.
• Collaborate with the Services function (Delivery Manager and Project Manager), to interact with customers defining, producing and maintaining an optimal Solution Design based on customer needs and products capabilities.
• Own the design deliverables (Statement of Work, Solution Architecture documents), ensure traceability of requirements with solutions proposed.
• Be responsible for the communication and enforcement of the Solution Design to Customer and Key Project Stakeholders.
• Manage involvement of other SMEs (e.g. business analysts, IT / Cybersecurity experts) and make sure their design contributions meet system architecture functional and non-functional requirements.
• Drive excellence in execution through continuous improvement in their segment or domain (best practices and reference material - reference architectures, reference solutions)
• Collaborate with Product Managers & Engineering (Customer Voice, Return on Experience, product enhancements, reference architectures)
• Build technical expertise in the field of their segment or domain. Deliver technical consultancy services on demand
• Coordinate knowledge capitalization and dissemination across the Services & Solution Design teams,
• Be accountable for activities planning, progress reporting, and completing activities in his scope as per approved budget.

• Engage with utility clients to understand their business needs and the impact of emerging trends as distributed energy resources (DERs) on their distribution system.
• Collaborate with the Services function (Delivery Manager and Project Manager), to interact with customers defining, producing and maintaining an optimal Solution Design based on customer needs and products capabilities.
• Own the design deliverables (Statement of Work, Solution Architecture documents), ensure traceability of requirements with solutions proposed.
• Be responsible for the communication and enforcement of the Solution Design to Customer and Key Project Stakeholders.
• Manage involvement of other SMEs (e.g. business analysts, IT / Cybersecurity experts) and make sure their design contributions meet system architecture functional and non-functional requirements.
• Drive excellence in execution through continuous improvement in their segment or domain (best practices and reference material - reference architectures, reference solutions)
• Collaborate with Product Managers & Engineering (Customer Voice, Return on Experience, product enhancements, reference architectures)
• Build technical expertise in the field of their segment or domain. Deliver technical consultancy services on demand
• Coordinate knowledge capitalization and dissemination across the Services & Solution Design teams,
• Be accountable for activities planning, progress reporting, and completing activities in his scope as per approved budget.

• Knowledge of emerging energy industry trends and implications on utility customers (Renewables and DER orchestration, distribution planning, IT/OT, SCADA)
• Experience in Services - Software Commissioning
• Experience of utility network management systems, ideally in the electricity industry
• Experience of SCADA
• Exposure to Outage Management and Customer Call Centre applications
• Familiarity with CIM / CGMES standards, IEC 61970/61968, or other energy modeling frameworks.
• Familiarity with power systems analysis e.g. load flow, short circuit analysis
• Experience of system integration e.g. SOAP, REST, Kafka etc.
• Experience of scripting and/or programming languages e.g. shell, perl, python, java etc.
• Familiarity with database technologies including RDBMS, SQL, NOSQL and data modelling, data migration