Technical Architect

The Customer Engagement Capital Portfolio Team is looking for a Solution Engineer with strong communications skills, to work with our existing IT delivery team to design, develop, test and implement key functional enhancements based on business requirements from our product owner and regulator. The ideal candidate has strong communication and problem-solving skills, can help foster relationships, facilitate and coordinate standard project operations and support and drive excellence.

 

Application Summary

Building Energy Usage Portal is a cloud-based internet application which provides functionality used by New York and New Jersey Building Owners and Property Managers as they manage their energy consumption data. The application allows users to add properties that they manage into our system and receive back energy (gas, electric, and steam) consumption data into the portal and automatically send the consumption data to Energy Star Portfolio Manager so they can execute on their benchmarking obligations. 

 

 

 

Application Modules:  

 

 

 

· Add and Manage Properties: Allows users to add the properties they are authorized to benchmark for into the portal, send authorization emails, and review those properties and their key details.  

 

· Property and Meter Report: Allows users to review their consumption (electric and gas) for the properties they have added in add property at the aggregated property level or meter level and download that information.  

 

· Portfolio Manager Connection: Allows users to see if their properties are shared or unshared with Energy Star Portfolio Manager (ESPM) and the latest status on their exports to ESPM as well as a history of their exports.  

 

· Admin Reports: Allows admin users to review informational reports to enable them to support users as they have issues with navigating their benchmarking experience – there are some of these built into the portal and some available in PowerBI.  

 

· Support Page: Allows users to view FAQs, Contact Information, and links to key user guides and help documents.  

 

 

 

Role & Responsibilities

 

· Design and analyze technical approaches, evaluate potential risks, costs and defects

 

· Recommend software technologies and solutions, evaluate alternatives, and analyze problems with data infrastructure

 

· Create models, wireframes, and prototypes when applicable

 

· Own and oversee application design and software development process

 

· Lead delivery team through architectural development process and collaborate with application development teams, architects, Business and other project constituents

 

· Ensure application software solutions are effectively and efficiently designed, produced and tested

 

· Present design options to executives, stakeholders, peers and delivery teams

 

· Breakdown architecture into tangible tasks for a developer to execute

 

· Predict future needs and ensure technical design are secure and scalable

 

· Research and implement innovate technologies, determine what best suits the organization and helps the company meet goals and targets

 

· Create technical documentation, update Microsoft DevOps, produce documents relating to application architecture, design steps, integration processes and testing procedures relating to each product developed

 

· Produce end-to-end solution models rapidly with focus on non-functional requirements.

 

· Educate and train staff on coding standards, design, and development best practices

 

 

 

Required Skillset

 

· Over 6 years of proven solution architect experience, must include System Integration and Platform Integration expertise

 

· Outstanding written and verbal communication skills

 

· Strong leadership skills, to effectively influence decisions and impact progress are required

 

· Strong hands-on architecture experience designing and implementing customer facing applications

 

· Working knowledge of latest technology patterns involving APIs, Microsoft Cloud, .NET, Angular, SQL DB, Cosmos DB, and AI

 

· Hands on experience with software development and system administration

 

· Strong understanding of strategic IT solutions and frameworks

 

· Strong experience in project management, service oriented architecture (SOA) and cloud technologies

 

· Strong experience working with vendor products, complex system solutions and cross functional teams

 

· Strong experience designing and building interfaces from internal source systems to externally facing applications. 

 

· A problem solving aptitude

 

· Strong business and technology decision making skills are required

 

· Strong knowledge of project management and software development methodology and tools: Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, SDLC, DevOps, SaFE

 

· BS/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or related field

 

· Promote a customer-focused team that maintains high work and ethical standards

 

· Have a relentless focus on delivering a 1 customer experience.

 

· Utility or customer service industry knowledge is preferred, but not required