Program Architect

Oncor Electric Delivery is seeking a Program Architect for a contract position in Dallas, Texas, with a duration of 6+ months and possibility of extension. This is a high-impact, mission-critical leadership role responsible for architecture across a large-scale Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) transformation program, aligning enterprise strategy with execution while delivering measurable business outcomes in grid reliability, outage reduction, system resilience, and operational scalability.

Responsibilities

• Own the target state, transition states, and execution architecture roadmap for the ADMS program, serving as the final decision authority for all program-level architectural trade-offs
• Translate enterprise architecture strategy into actionable and enforceable program architecture, define technology investment direction, and challenge internal and vendor-driven roadmaps
• Establish and govern architectural standards across system integrators, vendors, and platform providers, critically evaluating and challenging vendor solutions, designs, and delivery approaches to prevent over-customization
• Serve as the primary architectural advisor to CIO/CTO, executive steering committees, and program leadership, driving decision-making in high-impact, ambiguous situations and communicating architecture trade-offs in outcome-oriented language
• Define integration architecture across the ADMS ecosystem and lead design of real-time, event-driven, and high-availability architectures supporting SCADA and grid operations
• Ensure alignment across IT/OT boundaries, including telemetry, control systems, and enterprise platforms
• Identify and mitigate systemic architectural risks across a multi-system, multi-year program, and lead architectural recovery efforts for at-risk or underperforming program components
• Ensure architecture is deployable, operable, and production-ready, defining patterns for resilience, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and observability
• Support go-lives, cutovers, and phased rollout strategies

Qualifications

• Required

• 15+ years in architecture, engineering, or senior technical leadership roles

• 15+ years in Electrical Utility / Energy domain

• Proven leadership of large-scale transformation programs ($50M-$200M+)

• Experience leading architecture across 10+ integrated systems and cross-functional teams

• Demonstrated experience in mission-critical / control room systems environments

• Proven track record in turnaround or stabilization of complex programs

• Hands-on experience with AspenTech OSI ADMS or equivalent systems

• Participation in at least one full ADMS implementation lifecycle (design deployment stabilization)

• Deep understanding of OMS, DMS, SCADA, and grid operations workflows

• Real-time systems architecture and low-latency data processing (SCADA/telemetry)

• Event-driven and streaming architectures

• High-availability and fault-tolerant design patterns for mission-critical systems

• Data synchronization strategies across operational and enterprise platforms

• Demonstrated ability to lead without authority across federated teams

• Strong decision-making under ambiguity and competing priorities

• Proven ability to challenge stakeholders, vendors, and delivery teams constructively

• Exceptional executive communication skills

• Ability to translate architecture into business outcomes, risks, and trade-offs

• Produces concise, decision-driven artifacts

• Preferred

• IT/OT convergence and cybersecurity expertise with NERC CIP awareness