Solutions Architect

Location: Carmel, Indiana; Eagan, Minnesota; or Little Rock, Arkansas

MISO’s Solution Architect is responsible for collaborating with various stakeholders in designing, prototyping, and evaluating highly scalable solutions used to manage the power grid for 45 million people. You’ll engage stakeholders applying architectural methods and producing architectural artifacts across multiple domains including business, data, application, infrastructure, and security with evidence of the achievement of business outcomes. We are looking for someone that shares our passion for delivering value where your contribution has a positive impact on society. If your best days include delivering solutions to problems in a complex domain, with multiple stakeholders, and you want to contribute to evolving and transforming technologies and processes to solve these problems - this is the job for you!

The Solution Architect will:

• Perform current state architecture analysis and develop future state solution designs including integrations with other applications and systems
• Work collaboratively with vendor development teams, internal Agile development teams, business stakeholders, and architecture team peers to deliver security, data-driven and standard-based solutions
• Identify opportunities to contribute architecturally on both newly-formed and in-flight project teams
• Conduct assessments, design current state, future state, and roadmaps
• Review and update technology standards and/or propose new standards
• Develop solution roadmaps, target state solution architectures, and document design approaches with the delivery of specifications and working prototypes
• Analyze, design and develop cloud-based solutions, primarily on the Azure platform
• Contribute exemplars of executed patterns and technology to MISO’s Architecture Reference Library

We are looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 10+ years’ software engineering and architecture experience with modern technologies
• Design skills and the ability to translate design into Enabler
• Ability to communicate designs as models using modeling language like ArchiMate
• Relevant technical and/or architecture certifications are preferred (TOGAF)

The appropriate level will be determined based on experience and knowledge.

Transformative innovation is happening in the electric industry; from digitalizing homes and distributed resources, to renewable energy and an ever-changing grid. MISO manages the electricity superhighway in the Central U.S. and through use of groundbreaking research and advanced technology, our highly skilled employees ensure power flows reliably to 45 million Americans. Operating the electricity grid, running a robust energy market, planning for a bright future – it’s what our immensely hardworking and dedicated team does every day.

At MISO, we are committed to the health and safety of our employees while maintaining a reliable bulk electric system. We are proud to offer #workfromhome options to our employees. MISO offers a comprehensive benefits package available on your first day of employment.

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