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Primary Purpose

The Domain Architect – Wireless Backhaul defines overall direction of architecture for microwave and network communications backbone, aligned to business strategy and enterprise architecture. Translates strategy into blueprints and designs for the overall architecture of the company’s wireless backhaul capabilities to ensure that the balance between business outcomes and reliability is maintained. As a specialist in microwave and wireless backhaul systems, the domain architect facilitates and defines IT architecture solutions to define and align with company strategy. Owns and maintains standards, patterns, and guardrails. Acts as an advisor and expert to engage with engineering and product teams to drive communications framework and best practices.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Creates and implements a wireless backhaul architecture that optimizes for flexibility, re-use, scalability, performance and availability. Coordinates and prioritizes resolution of all escalated activities, including testing, project management, and implementation of system upgrades, enhancements, and bug fixes within domain.
• Shapes technical vision and strategy for wireless backhaul/microwave.Applies deep technical expertise and industry-specific functional knowledge on wireless backhaul to drive vision and execution. Ensures developed patterns, standards, solution designs, and technical architectures are consistent with domain vision and strategy. Facilitates implementation of architecture standards and patterns for wireless backhaul/microwave, emphasizing DevSecOps practices and Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD). Participates in discovery and visioning phase to create a high-level design approach. Maintains awareness of technical and industry trends relevant to specialization area, applying deep technical expertise and industry-specific functional knowledge to shape vision and strategy.
• Maintains cross-business responsibilities by providing technical consultation and support to multiple organizations within company when issues arise. Advises on wireless backhaul/microwave architecture, roadmaps, and standards-aligned with business outcomes, IT strategy, and enterprise reference architectures. Frequently interacts with business stakeholders for wireless backhaul/microwave technologies to integrate knowledge of business and functional priorities into domain strategy and technical roadmap. Works in alignment with enterprise architects to ensure that future state designs, patterns, and roadmap for area of responsibility are aligned to overall enterprise standards and technology strategy. Drives technical execution within area of responsibility. Works side by side with developers on new patterns ensuring alignment. Consults with agile teams to address design decisions. Coordinates with contractors to enable day-to-day activities.
• Assesses critical path and implementation of any projects required by business. Participates in quarterly planning. Assists with development of epics, stories, and features (i.e., units and groupings of work defined in an agile way, with stories being smallest unit delivered by a single team in a single two-week sprint) related to wireless backhaul/microwave. Collaborates with Product Owners and Group Product Owners to identify and define business value.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, related field or equivalent training and/or experience.
• 8 years – Progressive experience in software engineering, technology design, and/or IT Architecture across multiple products, systems, and/or platforms. Must include experience in solution design, enterprise applications, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), middle-tier services, database management, storage, distributed computing, virtualization and/or application technology.
• 2 years – Experience working as a senior contributor in one or more IT disciplines, designing IT solutions, systems, and/or applications and delivering IT Solution, systems, and/or applications.
• Packaged Platforms / Systems – Knowledge of technologies and Packaged Platform/Systems including SAP S/4 HANA, IBM, Oracle, Public Cloud services, etc.
• Development Languages – Knowledge and understanding of one or more IT programming languages and database architectures, and ability to write code and develop applications using those languages.
• Technology Trends – Demonstrates a strong understanding of emerging trends in the technology landscape, including new technologies, processes, and ways of working. Able to determine the impact of technological advancement on the company’s systems, applications, infrastructure, and practices.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Ability to participate in co-operative working relationships including knowledge sharing and partnership in achieving solutions within and across business or operational functions.
• Architecture Strategy – Strong ability to translate business strategy into objectives for technology, and to create a holistic enterprise architecture (application, data, and technical) that enables the capabilities that support the business strategy.
• Database and Storage Architecture – Knowledge of the fundamentals of how data is stored in a database and how it can be accessed by components of a system, including specifications, rules, and processes. Ability to create blueprints and designs that ensure appropriate access, storage, and flow of data.
• Information Security – Strong understanding of the fundamentals of information security, digital privacy measures, and cybersecurity practices, and the ability to incorporate strong security practices into technology systems and applications.
• Strategic / Visionary Thinking – Excellent strategic thinking skills, and the ability to apply unique business insights and make sound decisions aligned to business goals in order to create competitive advantage for the organization.
• May require reporting to San Diego campus on an as needed basis.
• May require work outside of normal business hours and/or 24/7 response availability for system and application maintenance, enhancements, production releases and/or operational emergencies.

Preferred Qualifications

• 1 year – Experience working with DevSecOps practices, including Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Application Modernization – Knowledge of techniques for refactoring, re-purposing or consolidation of legacy software programming to align it more closely with current business needs.
• DevSecOps Principles – Strong understanding of processes and concepts to drive the integration of development, operations, and security into enterprise software development to produce better outcomes.
• Cloud Delivery – Familiarity with different cloud computing delivery models, knowledge of cloud-based solutions for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS), and ability to deliver cloud-based technologies and systems.
• Distributed Computing and Virtualization – Familiarity with distributed computing models, and the ability to build, support or maintain a distributed computing infrastructure.
• Enterprise Architecture – Strong understanding of the end-to-end value chain of the organization, and ability to document and define the current IT landscape and processes, as well as the future state technology needs of the organization as determined by business strategy.
• Agile Methodologies – Knowledge of concepts, including Agile Scrum and/or Kanban, and application of Agile methodology (e.g., Lean, SAFe, LeSS) for project management to be able to design, implement and manage projects.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.

Note: SDG&E strives to ensure that employees are paid equitably and competitively. Starting salaries may vary based on factors such as relevant experience, qualifications, and education.

SDG&E offers a competitive total rewards package that goes beyond base salary. This position is eligible for an annual performance-based incentive (bonus) as well as other merit-based recognition. Company benefits include health and welfare (medical, dental, vision), employer contributions to retirement benefits, life insurance, paid time off, as well as other company offerings such as tuition reimbursement, paid parental leave, and employee assistance programs.