Staff Solution Architect

**Job Description Summary**: Who are you?
You are a passionate and technical client-obsessed Enterprise Architect who understands emerging energy industry trends and implications on utilities and their clients. You are a trusted advisor to the client, providing technical expertise in the planning, requirements management, design, build (including custom software development) and implementation of GE Vernova GridOS DERMS solutions to meet client needs.

**What will you as our new Solution Architect work on?**:

- ** Engage with our utility clients to understand the impacts of distributed energy resources (DERs) on the distribution system by providing our utility clients with solutions to manage and plan for the emergence of more DERs.**:

- ** Engage with our utility clients to understand their business needs and how our solution can align, meet, and exceed those business needs.**:

- ** Speak to how effective Requirements Management, leading to a complete set of approved requirements that are traceable to both the solution design and QA test cases.**:

- ** Work collaboratively with a strong team of Technical Leads and Solution Specialists to provide input on solution architecture based on client needs and solution capabilities. Define success criteria and author solution diagrams for the project.**:

- ** Deploy GE GridOS DERMS solutions to client environments to support project use cases and DER planning scenarios.**:

- ** Prepare input data such as network model files, load & generation forecasts, future planning scenarios, and generation cost data.**:

- ** Prepare, modify, and configure client and testing input data for solutions by creating scripts and automating data processing systems.**:

- ** Convert and validate client CIM distribution network models using developed tools and scripts, validating power flow results.**:

- ** Lead the custom adapter, connector, API, microservice design and development to fully integrate the GE GridOS DERMS solution into the client environment.**:

- ** Fluent in full stack development, backend services, middleware, and presentation layer including UI/UX needs to deliver custom integrated solutions to our clients.**:

- ** Collaborate with our Service Engineering development lead during the development cycle to ensure all custom deliverables meet defined needs and standards and are on time and budget.**:

- ** Respond to all client inquiries, bugs, and product ideas for in-flight projects and file tickets for the Product team.**:

- ** Lead the simulation of project scenarios utilising combinations of solutions, configuration, and input data.**:

- ** Perform use case and client specific testing runs and lead factory and site acceptance testing.**:

- ** Debug software bugs, documenting issues for the testing teams.**:

- ** Automate solution processes and complete workflows using existing API documentation.**:

- ** Analyse and assess data and results of project activities and tasks.**:

- ** Hands-On experience, with certification a plus, in deploying solution to the AWS cloud (GE’s and/or the clients).**:

- ** Report on project outcomes and present findings to project partners and stakeholders.**:

- ** Outline project goals, objectives, requirements, and technical functionality. Design, and document solutions to achieve the identified client requirements and use cases.**:

- ** Facilitate requirements gathering and analysis, workshops that capture functional and non-functional requirements from the client and relay them to the internal product and development teams.**:

- ** Document and design client-specific solution requirements, capturing acceptance criteria and necessary features to meet client business needs mapping them back to product capabilities.**:

- ** Define the user acceptance testing process and test cases, and articulate progress metrics.**:

- ** Experience with enterprise software full stack development, including backend development and scripting including Java, Python, and DB connector experience.**:

- ** Work with the Project Managers to develop, document and standardize new internal and external processes, expectations, and deliverables across multiple projects.**:

- ** Create business cases and new product requirements by understanding client business processes and policies, in some cases to include regulatory needs.**:

- ** Collaborate with other members of the Solutions team to expand our solution consulting and delivery practice, build standards of excellence, and continuously deliver innovative solution offerings for clients.**:

- ** Use internal software demonstrations to develop user acceptance documentations, and training modules.**:

- ** Train utility clients and end users on how to use GE GridOS DERMS to achieve their business cases.**:

- ** Identify project delivery risks, recommending potential mitigation strategies, in collaboration with Project Manager**:

- ** Support sales activities on occasion, providing technical