Xcel Energy
Xcel Energy
Xcel Energy este o companie de energie și utilități care colaborează cu comunități, clienți și parteneri de afaceri pentru a sprijini tranziția fiabilă și accesibilă către o energie mai curată. Serviciile sale orientate către clienți includ resurse pentru facturare, monitorizarea consumului de energie și informații despre siguranță, iar oportunitățile de carieră acoperă activitatea companiei în domeniul energiei, al utilităților și al operațiunilor de retail conexe.

Principal IT Architect, Operational Technology | Xcel Energy | Hybrid Minneapolis

Lead operational technology architecture for Xcel Energy’s mission-critical systems in a hybrid Minneapolis role. Shape technology roadmaps, integrations, governance, cybersecurity, and modernization across highly regulated environments.

Descriere

  • Lead architecture for mission-critical technology platforms in highly available, regulated, and operationally critical environments.
  • Develop and implement technology strategies that advance reliable operations, modernization, cybersecurity, compliance, and sustainability.
  • Own technology roadmaps covering capability growth, platform modernization, technical debt reduction, standardization, and operational sustainability.
  • Facilitate architecture and design discussions for complex initiatives involving multiple platforms, domains, business functions, and stakeholder groups.
  • Evaluate and guide solution architectures so they support enterprise strategy, architecture principles, roadmaps, cybersecurity controls, and operational requirements.
  • Strengthen architecture governance to improve design quality, consistency, and long-term sustainability.
  • Direct integration architecture across operational systems, enterprise applications, data platforms, cloud services, and external partners.
  • Advise on real-time and near-real-time data exchange, event-driven design, telemetry, workflow automation, and complex system integration.
  • Establish integration patterns, architecture standards, and practices that improve interoperability and reduce technical complexity.
  • Guide architecture decisions for identity, access control, trust boundaries, infrastructure and network security, cybersecurity, and secure operational access.
  • Assess and mitigate architecture risks that could affect reliability, cybersecurity, compliance, operations, or business continuity.
  • Embed security-by-design, operational readiness, observability, supportability, and resilience throughout the technology lifecycle.
  • Ensure designs include and validate monitoring, alerting, logging, recovery, performance, and support capabilities before production release.
  • Use domain architecture practices to improve reliability, availability, maintainability, operational efficiency, and user experience.
  • Coordinate work across architecture, engineering, operations, cybersecurity, infrastructure, vendors, and business teams.
  • Shape enterprise technology decisions and present architectural vision, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations to technical and executive audiences.

Cerințe

  • Bachelor’s degree in technology, science, business, or a related field, or four years of equivalent experience.
  • At least 10 years of related functional experience.
  • Excellent communication skills across organizational levels and technical backgrounds.
  • Strong relationship management and collaboration skills, with demonstrated success driving innovation and business results across organizations.
  • Broad architecture expertise spanning networks, infrastructure, software, hosting models, applications, data, mobile platforms, and security.
  • Strong understanding of enterprise architecture across software, hardware, networks, integrations, data, hosting models, and platform types.
  • Deep expertise in at least two architecture disciplines, such as SOA, TOGAF, BPM, data analytics, standards and governance, or enterprise architecture frameworks.
  • Current knowledge of emerging technology trends within the relevant area of expertise.
  • Advanced experience with architectural reviews and technology lifecycle management.
  • Experience serving in a lead role for project delivery and solutions architecture.
  • Experience owning strategic roadmap planning and simplifying technology ecosystems.
  • Preferred: At least five years of architectural leadership for real-time SCADA systems.
  • Preferred experience designing operational technology, industrial control systems, real-time platforms, automation environments, or other mission-critical operational systems.
  • Preferred experience in utilities, energy, manufacturing, oil and gas, transportation, telecommunications, industrial automation, data centers, or other critical infrastructure sectors.
  • Preferred experience with OT platforms including SCADA, ADMS, EMS, DEMS, DERMS, OMS, historian systems, or operational data platforms.
  • Preferred experience with Schneider Electric, GE, Siemens, OSI, Aveva, PI, or comparable OT and industrial technology ecosystems.
  • Preferred participation in major OT, industrial, or mission-critical upgrades, modernization programs, cloud or data enablement initiatives, or platform transformations.

Beneficii

  • Annual incentive program.
  • Medical and pharmacy plan.
  • Dental coverage.
  • Vision coverage.
  • Life insurance.
  • Dependent care reimbursement account.
  • Health care reimbursement account.
  • Health savings account (HSA) when enrolled in an eligible health plan.
  • Limited-purpose FSA when enrolled in an eligible health plan and HSA.
  • Transportation reimbursement account.
  • Short-term disability (STD).
  • Long-term disability (LTD).
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
  • Fitness center reimbursement when enrolled in an eligible health plan.
  • Tuition reimbursement.
  • Transit programs.
  • Employee recognition program.
  • Pension plan.
  • 401(k) plan.
  • Paid time off (PTO).
  • Paid holidays.
  • Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO).
  • Parental leave.
  • Hybrid work model supporting collaboration and flexibility.

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