Junior Enterprise Architect - Data

Con Edison is seeking an Architect with a strong technology foundation who is eager to grow into a future enterprise architecture leader. The role provides technical leadership within delivery teams, helps optimize the technology landscape, and contributes to both short-term and long-term Enterprise Tech & Security (ETS) strategy. The role also includes coaching and guidance from senior enterprise architects to support continuous learning and growth.

The cloud architecture role is dedicated to fostering innovation and collaborating with both business and IT stakeholders. Serving as a liaison between business and ETS, the architect develops and maintains technology capability roadmaps, reference architecture, best practices, guidelines, and leads application rationalization efforts. This position works in close partnership with application owners, domain architects, and developers to ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and effectively support business objectives. By evaluating integration options across IT domains, the architect guides the development of business solutions utilizing advanced technologies. Additionally, the specialist is instrumental in establishing and collaborating on technical standards related to development, integration, and system maintenance.

This position does not provide employment pursuant to the terms of a STEM OPT Training Plan.

• Design and maintain BigQuery schemas (tables, partitioning, clustering) based on business requirements. Maintain metadata and lineage for key datasets and support senior architects with design and review activities
• Oversee architecture, solution reviews, and ensure compliance with ETS standards. Coordinates with internal teams and partners to address issues and supports teams in implementing established architectural strategies. Apply basic governance: dataset/table naming standards, access control, and documentation of datasets
• Share expertise ensuring that teams are continuously improving and learning together to meet current and future IT engineering and architecture needs; creates robust designs that promote safety, operational excellence and minimize unplanned outages
• Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Cyber Security, Network Systems, and peer ETS teams to plan, review design packages, and integrate IT deliverables within projects. Help build and operate ingestion/ETL pipelines that load data into BigQuery from source systems. Write and optimize BigQuery SQL for reports, dashboards, and data products while controlling cost
• Strong desire and initiative to lead and drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly and champion new concepts
• Provide strong leadership to direct reports by guiding, motivating, and challenging them to achieve high performance; foster professional growth and inhouse expertise; and advance enterprise architecture adoption while reinforcing a standardsdriven culture.
• Strong project management skills, quick learner, self-starter. This is a leadership position working with a wide range of technical and non-technical audiences. Will be expected to come up with costs and risks and make a holistic recommendation for introducing new technologies
• Perform other duties as needed. Be available 24/7 for on-call and emergency response when required

• Master's Degree and a minimum 2 years of relevant full-time work experience or
• Bachelor's Degree and a minimum 3 years of relevant full-time work experience or
• Associate's Degree and a minimum 5 years of relevant full-time work experience or
• High School Diploma/GED and a minimum 7 years of relevant full-time work experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Math, Engineering or business-related disciplines and a minimum 5 years of relevant full-time work experience

• Experience in evaluating various technologies and establishing standard designs, required
• Experience in the design and implementation of cyber security measures to protect resources, data, and applications in the cloud or on-prem to ensure that architectures comply with company/industry standards and regulations, required
• Ability to collaborate with IT and business stakeholders to align cloud initiatives with organizational objectives, required
• Solid expertise in Google MS purview, Dataplex & Bigquery, required
• Ability to create in-depth technology reference architectures, technology playbooks, and detailed design diagrams, required
• Experience in developing, designing and implementing detailed scalable data and analytics platform, required
• Experience working with data compliance and supporting internal and external data audits, required
• Demonstrate project management skills including the ability to develop plans for and track multiple assignments with changing priorities while meeting deadlines; ability to estimate investment requirements, required

• Effective interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated problem solving skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Possesses strong technical aptitude
• Ability to lead/manage others

• Driver's License Required
• Other: Training and/or certification in the data domain (data governance and data architecture) e.g., TOGAF, DAMA CDMP, ICCP, ITIL, CSM, CCSP, CISM, CISA, CISSP, Microsoft Azure Data Certifications, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, etc. Preferred

• Sit or stand to use a keyboard, mouse, and computer for the duration of the workday

• The selected candidate will be assigned a System Emergency Assignment (i.e., an emergency response role) and will be expected to work non-business hours during emergencies, which may include nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Must be flexible and able to work off-hours as required to support deployments, help resolve production problems or respond to corporate emergencies

Mission Statement:

Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (Con Edison), Orange & Rockland Utilities (O&R), and Consolidated Edison Transmission (CET) employees are required to follow health, safety, and environmental policies, EEO, Standards of Business Conduct, and all other applicable company policy and procedures. We all share a responsibility to advance the company’s mission by excelling at our three corporate priorities – safety of our people and the public, operational excellence in all that we do, and ensuring the best possible customer experience.

Benefits:

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, mental, and financial health of our employees and their families. This commitment extends beyond the workplace to foster personal growth and holistic wellbeing. Our life-changing rewards package includes:

• Rich medical & pharmacy benefits, including vision benefits
• Dental benefits
• Health Savings Accounts
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401(k) with robust matching
• Employer paid Pension Plan
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a generous matching contribution
• State of the art Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Parental Leave
• Generous paid time off plus paid holidays
• Family support: emergency backup child, & elder care assistance
• Social responsibility and volunteer opportunities
• Employee discount program
• Commuter Benefits
• Culture of growth and learning: career development; tuition reimbursement; recognition program
• Life and Long-Term Disability Benefits

*Please be aware that some benefits may not apply to provisional or part-time job titles.

EEO Statement:

Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (Con Edison), Orange & Rockland Utilities (O&R), and Consolidated Edison Transmission (CET) are equal opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of the individual’s actual or perceived disability, protected veteran status, race, color, creed, religion, sex, age, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, domestic violence victim status, or any other actual or perceived status protected by law.

Technical Difficulty Statement:

For technical issues, please contact us at [email protected]