IT Architect (Systems Design), Senior Advisor

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Date: Jul 23, 2025

Location: Pomona, CA, US, 91768

Company: Southern California Edison

Hiring Manager: Sunanda Shyamsunder Singh 

Job Abbreviation: ITD920_P5_E 

Pay Grade:  Exempt - 37 

Pay Range: $178,300.00 -$267,400.00 

 

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become an IT Design architect (Data and Integration) at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll lead advanced analytics, data and integration architecture, and AI architecture. This initiative offers the opportunity to oversee data architecture, AI enablement including integrating AI into existing systems and assessing business benefits. Shape critical decisions in SAP RISE implementation while partnering with teams in cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and SAP EAM, FI, and SCM technologies team to transform operations and reduce carbon emissions

Responsibilities

  • Defines architecture blueprint for end-to-end systems including integration of applications systems, platforms and technical infrastructure at the portfolio and solutions architecture levels.
  • Carries out the intake scoping of solution concepts and initial cost estimation system architecture definition at the logical level
  • Proactively seeks solutions and deploys recommendations to resolve architectural problems related to any IT domain, including Business, Apps, Data, Security, Server, Networks or Storage
  • Aligns with Business and Systems Analysts to understand the business requirements and create the corresponding blueprint for implementing various technology components of a new system
  • Leads to the solution strategy and architecture including identification of core components necessary to meet functional requirements and desired systems characteristics
  • Ties architectural vision together across portfolios and major business initiatives programs
  • Manages the design and documentation of solutions within standards defined by the enterprise architecture team
  • Coordinates closely with solution engineering development teams and vendors to ensure that a coherent and consistent approach to implementation of the specified solution architecture is achieved
  • Analyzes the technology domains and develops market assessments and roadmaps to inform and evolve strategic execution
  • Ensures all solutions adhere to enterprise IT principles and utility industry standards and regulations
  • A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Ten or more years of designing and developing IT architecture.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Information Science Technology, Computer Science or engineering.
  • Five or more years of experience with SAP S4 HANA, FIORI, BWHANA,
  • Two or more years of experience with SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, and Business Technology Platform (BTP) architecture and services
  • Two or more years of experience using AI tools for development and design patterns including use of LLMs, RAG and MCP
  • Five or more years of experience with electric utility business processes and Operational Technologies (OT) with emphasis on Transmission and Distribution Engineering
  • Experience working in projects utilizing agile development and DevOps
  • Knowledge of TOGAF or other Enterprise Architecture Standards or Frameworks
  • Strong understanding of SAP Clean Core, cloud-first strategies, and SAP Build portfolio.
  • Experience and proficiency in platforms such as SAP Joule, Copilot, Amazon Bedrock, and Azure AI.
  • Experience with systems utilizing high volume and complex data processing, database platform selection and optimization, metadata management suites and OLAP or similar technologies
  • Strong understanding of SAP Finance, Assessment Management, Plant Maintenance or Materials Management. 

 

Additional Information 

  • This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days.  Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California.  Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
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  • Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
  • Relocation may apply to this position.

 

About Southern California Edison

The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.

 

Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

 

We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at (833) 343-0727.

 


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