VP Engineering - GridOS Operate

Job Description Summary

This role offers an exciting opportunity to lead the development of groundbreaking Transmission and Distribution applications on the innovative, cloud-native GridOS Platform, driving technological advancement in energy management. By spearheading organizational and architectural transformations in HTC, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing global energy infrastructure, fostering sustainable practices, and addressing climate challenges. Join us in shaping the future of energy distribution and making a meaningful impact on both technological evolution and environmental stewardship.

Technology Responsibilities:

Develop a scalable, pioneering Transmission & Distribution application using the cloud-native GridOS Platform.
Oversee all aspects of Transmission & Distribution, including managing legacy commitments, executing GridOS, and guiding architecture and organizational transformation.
Establish an L5 team with defined boundaries to optimize investment, focus, and outcomes.
Collaborate with external and internal partners to enhance production and infrastructure engineering capabilities.
Lead organizational transformation projects.

People Responsibilities:

Build and lead high-performance, Agile-centric teams dedicated to mission-critical applications.
Develop and manage globally balanced teams with a high degree of autonomy.
Process Responsibilities:

Promote lean practices and continuous improvement initiatives across Distribution.
Expand the organization using Agile/SAFe methodologies and foster cross-functional collaboration.
Implement security by design and quality by design principles throughout the organization.

Job Description

Strategic Impact

• Modernize EMS & ADMS - build the new GridOS based EMS/ADMS application that is NOT a parity application, but an industry leading one

• Accelerate Transformation - organizational transformation including accelerated scaling of BCR

• Improve Effectiveness - less waste and higher productivity out of engineering organization

• Increase Quality - scalable architecture and process designs to have a non-linear shift in product quality

Problem Solving

• Understands the interaction of multiple functions/groups and how they operate together to achieve the business objectives.

• Learn new technology developments quickly and identify new and innovative methods to address technical challenges, reduce cost, improve quality & safety of our products.

• Scale the organization by reducing variance of application services & ease of deployment working with partners

• Drive economic sense for a product which is derived by net-new, migrations, and serving T2 markets

Business Expertise

• Deep understanding of open-source technologies, platform economy, cloud, scalable data technologies, mission-critical platforms, cyber engineering and application of AI/GenAI in the Grid industry

• Strong understanding of the utility industry and/or operational technology landscape in an adjacent industry to pace the transformation

• Experience modernizing windows applications

Leadership

• Develops and leads global teams in a matrixed organization structure

• Leader of leaders with experience driving transformation, upskilling and change management

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes