Program Architect – ADMS Transformation

Job Title: Program Architect
Location: Hybrid at Woodall Rodgers. In-office presence requirement minimum of 3 days a week (subject to change)- Woodall Rodgers Freeway, Dallas, Texas
Duration: 6-month

Description:

• All qualifications in job description are required
• All interviews are in person
• ADMS is a requirement...the following is not acceptable....ADMS-adjacent, transferable to ADMS, mirrors ADMS, applicable to ADMS, matching ADMS, ADMS-adjacent systems, similar to ADMS, Same architectural pattern as ADMS control rooms, relevant to ADMS, adjacent to ADMS and analogous to ADMS.

Role Summary

• The Program Architect is the single point of accountability for architecture across a large-scale ADMS transformation program, responsible for aligning enterprise strategy with execution while delivering measurable business outcomes.
• This is a high-impact, mission-critical leadership role requiring deep expertise at the intersection of grid operations, real-time systems, and enterprise transformation. The role drives end-to-end technology strategy, architectural decisions, and execution discipline across a multi-year, multi-vendor program.
• The Program Architect is accountable not only for architecture integrity, but for ensuring delivery outcomes such as grid reliability, outage reduction, system resilience, and operational scalability.

Key Accountabilities
Program Architecture Ownership (End-to-End)

• Own the target state, transition states, and execution architecture roadmap for the ADMS program
• Serve as the final decision authority for all program-level architectural trade-offs
• Ensure architecture decisions are aligned to measurable business and operational outcomes

Enterprise Strategy Execution

• Translate enterprise architecture strategy into actionable and enforceable program architecture
• Define technology investment direction and challenge internal and vendor-driven roadmaps
• Establish justified exceptions to enterprise standards where necessary

Vendor & System Integrator Governance

• Own architectural governance across system integrators, vendors, and platform providers
• Critically evaluate and challenge vendor solutions, designs, and delivery approaches
• Prevent over-customization and ensure long-term platform sustainability and maintainability

Executive Influence & Leadership

• Act as the primary architectural advisor to CIO/CTO, executive steering committees, and program leadership
• Drive decision-making in high-impact, ambiguous situations
• Communicate architecture trade-offs in clear, outcome-oriented language

Integration & Real-Time Systems Architecture

• Define the integration architecture across ADMS ecosystem components
• 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

Risk, Complexity & Program Stabilization

• Identify and mitigate systemic architectural risks across a multi-system, multi-year program
• Lead architectural recovery efforts for at-risk or underperforming program components
• Rapidly assess and re-baseline architecture where required to protect delivery outcomes

Delivery & Operational Readiness

• Ensure architecture is deployable, operable, and production-ready
• Define patterns for resilience, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and observability
• Support go-lives, cutovers, and phased rollout strategies

Required Qualifications
Experience

• 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

ADMS Expertise (Mandatory)

• 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

Technical Depth

• 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
• IT/OT convergence and cybersecurity (NERC CIP awareness preferred)

Leadership & Influence

• 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

Communication

• Exceptional executive communication skills
• Ability to translate architecture into business outcomes, risks, and trade-offs
• Produces concise, decision-driven artifacts

Program Overview

• The ADMS transformation program delivers a modern, integrated grid operations platform
• combining outage management (OMS), distribution management (DMS), and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA).

The program spans:

• Real-time grid monitoring and control
• Outage detection and restoration
• Network modeling and analytics
• DER integration and orchestration
• Integration with GIS, AMI, EMS, and enterprise systems

• This initiative is a cornerstone of grid modernization, driving improved situational
• awareness, reliability, and scalability of distribution operations.

Success Metrics / Accountability

• The Program Architect is accountable for delivering measurable outcomes, including:

• System availability and uptime (e.g., 99.99% reliability targets)
• Reduction in outage duration (SAIDI/SAIFI impact)
• Architectural defect reduction and integration stability
• Vendor delivery quality and adherence to architecture standards
• Program risk reduction and predictability of delivery

Why This Role is Different

• This is not a traditional architect role. It requires a rare combination of utility domain mastery, real-time systems expertise, and enterprise transformation leadership.
• At this level, success is defined not by producing architecture but by ensuring the program delivers resilient, scalable, and future-ready grid operations capabilities at enterprise scale.