Senior Emerging & AI Technology Architect

Power the Future of New York

At the New York Power Authority were not just part of the energy landscapewere leading the charge toward a carbonfree resilient and economically vibrant New York. Our work keeps the state moving innovating and thriving.

Summary

The Senior Emerging & AI Technology Architect serves as a strategic hands-on architect bridging business objectives with solutions in emerging technologies and AI within the IT and electric energy sector. The candidate will assume the responsibilities of an Emerging Technologies and AI Architect emphasizing the identification evaluation development and advancement of technical opportunities for NYPA.

This role entails researching designing and implementing advanced solutions using Artificial Intelligence (AI) Machine Learning (ML) Generative AI and other emerging technologies. The goal is to leverage these advanced technologies to optimize grid operations enhance energy efficiency enable predictive maintenance and support the transition to a sustainable smart energy ecosystem. The candidate will collaborate with various business units such as Energy Generation Transmission Finance Engineering Canals etc. to build prototypes validate and support deploying enterprise-grade applications.

Success in this role necessitates deep expertise in Responsible AI Governance and Risk Management applying NYPAs AI governance framework for identity integration observability ethics and regulatory compliance. Additionally the candidate must possess advanced knowledge of AI and GenAI design patterns and understand how to manage the full lifecycle of AI models. A comprehensive understanding of data architecture governance and compliance cloud computing concepts and solution engineering practices is essential for success in this role. The candidate must be adept at mapping business capabilities and aligning them with value streams to ensure technology delivers real business outcomes.

In addition the role requires strong leadership in managing technical relationships coordinating solution briefings proof-of-concept efforts and aligning designs with enterprise architecture principles. The candidate acts as a connective hub across architecture disciplines closely working with the Enterprise Architecture Engineering (EAE) team to coordinate design reviews enforce architecture principles and accelerate delivery to ensure solutions are aligned with industry trends emerging technologies and partner ecosystems to effectively shape innovation strategies.

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Responsibilities

• Actively drive common standards best practices and process improvements across the development teams.
• Oversee project efforts to identify/document client/user requirements and lead effort to design/develop/test solutions to meet defined specifications. Ensure project teams uncover comprehend and document complex business requirements challenges and processes.
• Support in developing and maintaining Enterprise Architecture & Engineering standards and frameworks that drive the Technology strategy within one or more specific disciplines.
• Oversee develop conceptual and logical models representing database solutions to be incorporated into technical designs.
• Communicate technical business solutions to senior Information Technology and Business Unit Management as well as to peers and staff for understanding agreement and implementation.
• Provide expert insight and advice on developing conceptual and logical models representing database solutions to be incorporated into technical designs.
• Influence the technology strategy through in-depth understanding of customer needs and technical understanding to align business outcomes to technology strategy and roadmaps.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrated ability to identify and quickly learn understand and work with new emerging technologies methodologies and solutions.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate with a diverse audience at all levels of the organization.
• Experience developing and reviewing project planning activities related to architecture including: schedules budgets and deadlines.
• Experience in producing technical documentation and delivering presentations to a wide variety of technical business and executive audiences.
• Knowledgeable in advanced concepts and business issues of cloud computing datacenter consolidation IT infrastructure services cyber security data management services etc.
• Ability to quickly assess technology and business impacts of network administration and security principles and practices for technology projects
• Proficiency in architecting applications across SaaS / IaaS / PaaS and Hybrid cloud environments.
• Ability to lead team members by providing clear direction coaching mentoring and constructive feedback.

Education Experience and Certifications

• Bachelor of Science Degree in an IT related field preferred. An advanced degree is preferred.
• Minimum 8 years or more experience of providing solution engineering application architecture and systems integration services for technology projects preferred.
• Experience leading delivery of complex software projects by analyzing business and application requirements.
• Knowledge of EA and SA principles and frameworks.
• Professional experience in architecting/operating solutions built on public cloud platforms with Solution Architecture certification (TOGAF AWS Azure Google etc.)

Physical Requirements

Overnight travel to the various NYPA locations within New York State.