IT Specialist - Enterprise Architect
Detroit, MI, US
DTE is one of the nation’s largest diversified energy companies. Our electric and gas companies have fueled our customer’s homes and Michigan’s progress for more than a century. And as Michigan’s largest source of renewable energy, we’re creating a cleaner, healthier environment to power our future. We’re also serving communities beyond Michigan, where our affiliated businesses offer renewable energy, emission control technologies, and energy services to industries in 19 states.
But we’re more than a leading energy company... and working at DTE is more than just a job. At DTE, we take great care of each other and our customers, and we use our energy to be a force for growth and prosperity in our communities. When you join us, you’ll be part of a team that welcomes, recognizes, and celebrates differences and values everyone’s health, safety, and wellbeing. Are you ready to make that kind of difference? Bring your energy to DTE. Together, we can achieve great things.
Testing Required: Not Applicable
Hybrid Role: Must be able to come on-site periodically and reside a commutable distance from the assigned work location.
Emergency Response: Yes – Must be available to perform a primary assignment in support of DTE’s emergency response to storms or other events that impact service to our customers.
Job Summary
Expert in business, information and application architectures that drives strategic thinking and planning of technology, applications and business capabilities across the enterprise. Develops the technology strategies and roadmaps that align business unit strategic and operating plans with information technology capabilities and strategy. This role is responsible for defining the current and future technology landscape for the enterprise considering business vision, external best practices, competitive landscape and emerging technologies. This is delivered by decomposing business strategies and initiatives into actionable multi-year information technology (IT) roadmaps, defining principles, policies and standards that guide technology decisions and IT investments, and producing executive level deliverables that successfully communicate complex technical ideas and business outcomes. This is an individual contributor role.
Key Accountabilities
• Develops architecture and technology objectives for the enterprise and coordinates architecture plans and strategies.
• Creates, maintains and manages technology roadmaps, architecture models, visualizations and specifications that identify targeted recommendations and key investments.
• Sets direction in strategic business applications for the corporation.
• Identifies target capabilities and architecture of key IT services and applications that align the IT strategy and business value levers.
• Assesses and benchmarks targeted technology capabilities and dynamics of the industry.
• Provides consultative services to the IT organization on business capability and technology alignment. Advises IT management in setting the strategic and operational plans for the information technology investment, platform capability and technology roadmaps.
• Expert in architecture and technology planning methodology pertinent to the Enterprise. Maintains relationships with key technology vendors and stays abreast of latest industry best practices, trends and market offerings.
• Creates and articulates the architectural views that communicate the complexity of large systems.
• Facilitates the management of complex environments and strategic use of technologies.
• This position may require gas FERC training.
Minimum Education & Experience Requirements
This is a multi-track base requirement job; education and experience requirements can be satisfied through one of the following three options:
• High School Diploma or GED and 12 years of experience in systems development and systems architecture inclusive of 2 years of experience defining and implementing strategies under a CTO or CIO (or equivalent)
• Associates degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or Engineering and 10 years of experience in systems development and systems architecture inclusive of 2 years of experience defining and implementing strategies under a CTO or CIO (or equivalent)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or Engineering and 8 years of experience in systems development and systems architecture inclusive of 2 years of experience defining and implementing strategies under a CTO or CIO (or equivalent)
Other Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Understanding of and experience with enterprise level vendor systems such as SAP and IBM Maximo, familiarity with large scale databases
- Industry standard architecture certification such as TOGAF, Zachman, FEA, CISSP, AWS or Azure
- Proficiency in understanding, modeling and representation business and technical requirements in a high-quality manner as it relates to strategy
- Experience leading the strategic use of emerging technologies
- Experience using a business capability reference model for business and systems architecture alignment
- Practical knowledge of cloud technologies
- Strategic thinking and planning mindset of technology, applications, and business capabilities across the enterprise. Develop the technology strategies and roadmaps that align business unit strategic and operating plans with information technology capabilities.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills for authoring compelling deliverable and present them with a high degree of comfort to senior-level management
- Broad / enterprise view to take abstract concepts/complex business issues, use industry research, market analysis, artifact development, to create and present compelling deliverables.
- Familiarity in Utility Industry’s use of SAP CRM and ERP, Field Solutions, IBM Maximo, Cyber Security, Identity Management, Azure, and AWS cloud
- Proficient using Microsoft Office365; PowerPoint, Visio, Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams
Other Qualifications
- Possesses expertise in at least two of the following architecture domains: Cloud architecture, application architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure architecture, network architecture, business architecture and data architecture
- Experience in strategic planning and execution of technology architecture roadmaps
- Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a services (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics
- Knowledge of Software Architecture principles
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with senior-level Corporate management
- Stakeholder management
Additional Information
Incumbents may engage in all or some combination of the activities and accountabilities and utilize a variety of the competencies cited in this description depending upon the organization and role to which they are assigned. This description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by incumbents in this job. It is not intended as an all-inclusive list of accountabilities or responsibilities, nor is it intended to limit the rights of supervisors or management representatives to assign, direct and control the work of employees under their supervision.
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At DTE Energy, we are committed to providing an inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and a sense of belonging. We seek individuals with a heart for service, a passion to help our communities prosper, and ideas to help shape the future of energy. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer that considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion, disability, national origin, citizenship, height, weight, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status or any other status protected by law.
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