Business Architect
Axelon Services Corporation
Oakland, CA
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JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Agile Programming Methodologies, Apache Kafka, Architectural Services, Business Architecture, Business Processes, Computer Science, Cost Estimates, Customer Experience, Data Analysis, Distribution Management, Leadership, Management of Information Systems/Technology (MIS), Middleware, Power Outages, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Process Development, Product Support, Quantitative Analysis, Risk, Statistics, Streaming Technology, Team Player, Total Cost of Ownership, Trend Analysis, Writing Skills
LOCATION
Oakland, CA
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Business Architect V
Pay Rate: $60 - $80/hr, W2
Location: Oakland, CA
Duration: 12 Month Contract
Work Mode: Hybrid on-site. 2-days per week split between San Ramon Valley Conference Center and the Oakland General Office.
Summary:
- Business Architect for the Customer Electric Outage Experience team with a focus on defining technology plans.
- Drive deep into quantitative data with curiosity to understand trends and identify levers to increase customer experience.
- Estimate implementation costs and support change teams by describing the technology implementation to develop processes, communications, and job-aids.
Responsibilities:
- Create architectural vision aligned with product vision.
- Evolve technical vision to incorporate new technologies.
- Challenge current/future technical needs and work towards enterprise standardization across customer channels.
- Make tradeoffs among tech options to balance risk (execution, support, vendor, TCO).
- Quickly assess and move to the most viable alternatives.
- Assess quantitative scores from customers and operational results from systems and field execution to identify opportunities to increase customer experience.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related field of study, or equivalent experience.
- 5 years of related work experience.
- Excellent communication (oral and written) and collaboration skills.
- Ability to build strong relationships with and influence at the Director level of leadership across the company.
- Ability to build/further community & elevate team performance.
- Execution ability, ownership, and decisiveness.
- Excellent technical knowledge and expertise for products supported.
- Excellent ability and self-driven curiosity to analyze quantitative data and identify statistically relevant insights.
Preferred Skills:
- 5 years of experience working in an Agile environment with understanding of Agile values and principles.
- Knowledge of relevant technology, including but not limited to Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS), Electric Distribution Outage Management Systems (OMS), Data & Analytics Platforms (e.g. Palantir Foundry), Middleware (e.g. Mulesoft), voice/text/e-mail notification platforms, and data streaming technology (e.g. Apache Kafka, Flink, etc.).
- Knowledge of business processes, including but not limited to planned and unplanned electric outages.
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