Head of Enterprise Architecture

Job description

Company Summary Statement

As one of the largest investor-owned utility companies in the United States, PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL), is committed to creating long-term, sustainable value for our 3.5 million customers, our shareowners and the communities we serve.

Our high-performing regulated utilities — PPL Electric Utilities, Louisville Gas and Electric, Kentucky Utilities and Rhode Island Energy — provide an outstanding experience for our customers, consistently ranking among the best utilities in the nation.

PPL’s companies are also addressing challenges head-on by investing in new infrastructure and technology that is creating a smarter, more reliable and resilient energy grid.

We are committed to doing our part to advance a cleaner energy future and drive innovation that enables us to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while maintaining energy reliability and affordability for the customers and communities we serve.

PPL is a positive force in the cities and towns where we do business, providing support for programs and organizations that empower the success of future generations by helping to build and maintain strong, diverse communities today.
Overview

**This is a hybrid position requiring on-site presence three days per week at one of our local offices, located in Allentown, PA (Lehigh Valley), Louisville, KY, or Providence, RI.** **#INDPPL LI-HY**

The Director-Enterprise Architecture will oversee the development and governance of enterprise-wide architectural strategies, ensuring alignment between IT and business goals for new and existing Enterprise Technology platforms.

This role leads a team of platform engineers, owns the central Enterprise Architecture function and collaborates with Value Stream architects to define and build new generation platforms and provide an architectural governance model for the company.

Maximizing value, minimizing risk and leading transformation of business/digital strategy are key enterprise goals for this position.

This role is critical in enabling digital transformation, optimizing IT investments, and ensuring the reliability, scalability, and agility of technology platforms that support utility, power and corporate operations.

Candidate would have experience defining and implementing complex enterprise architectures across the following key areas: Business Architecture, Data and Information Architecture and Governance, Enterprise Architecture Operating Model, Enterprise Architecture Strategy and Planning, Enterprise IT Governance, Infrastructure and Cloud Architecture, Integration Architecture, Security Architecture, Solution and Application Architecture, Technology and Platforms This position reports to the Sr Dir Enterprise Technology.

LI-Hybrid

Responsibilities

**Strategic Leadership** :

+ Responsible for a $1.5 billion portfolio
+ Develop Point of Views on technology, industry and market trends, and determine their potential impact on the enterprise, and set go forward strategies to move towards the utility of the future vision.
+ Drive innovation by aligning the mindset towards moving from technology driven to business outcome driven architecture
+ Collaborate with Value Stream Enterprise Architects on the creation and/or evolution of the EA function or program.
+ Collaborate with IT and Business leaders to develop digital vision and build the digital strategy
+ Analyze the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, and recommend solutions for improvement
+ Lead the identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers to derive enterprise business, information, technical and solution (BITS) architecture requirements
+ Consult with application/infrastructure development projects to fit systems to architecture, and identify when it is necessary to modify the technical architecture to accommodate project needs
+ Understand, advocate and lead the enterprise's information technology strategies
+ Responsible for the development and ongoing support of key architectural solution components
+ Drive the continual development of the architectural runway for each of the value streams
+ Manages and is accountable for driving the development of solution of cross value stream architecture issues

**Architecture Governance** :

+ Establish and maintain architecture principles, frameworks and governance processes.
+ Define standards for solution architecture, integration, and data management across platforms.
+ Drives the development and ongoing facilitation of the enterprise architecture process driving processes like: New Technology Approval Process and Architecture Review Board.

**Solutions Architecture** :

+ Assesses wider industry technology trends (e.g., artificial intelligence, robot process automation, internet of things, cloud, dev ops, microservices etc.) and best practices to identify best-in-class Technology and architecture direction and is responsible for high level architectural design as well as playing a crucial role in identifying new technologies that could affect overall business strategy.

Additional responsibilities include:
+ Contribution towards the improvement of the Architecture process
+ Architectural technology standards within their specific discipline
+ Governance of architecture standards
+ Technology strategy
+ Works with various Technology teams to champion the adoption of patterns, platforms, and tools to support the usage and conformity of solution architecture

**Platform Engineering** :

+ Defines and builds the next generation platform to support a myriad of needs from integration to API centralization across all portfolios
+ Leads a team of engineers to build, scale, and adopt common APIs, tools, and systems supporting several other products and portfolios
+ Continues to drive innovation and modern technologies to simplify and streamline effort required to build new capabilities
+ Maintains existing Enterprise Architecture applications and solutions

**Platform Oversight (SAP & Non-SAP)** :

+ Oversight of the end-to-end architecture across SAP (S/4HANA, SAP, SAP BTP, SAP CPI) and non-SAP systems
+ Ensure seamless integration between platforms using APIs, middleware and microservices.
+ Guide ERP consolidation and cloud migration strategies.

**Risk & Compliance** :

+ Ensure enterprise architecture complies with cybersecurity, data privacy, and industry regulations
+ Design architecture that is resilient, secure, and supports disaster recovery strategies.

**Stakeholder Management:**

+ Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders in IT, operations, and business.
+ Work with project managers, solution architects, and delivery teams to ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture.

Qualifications

**Required Qualifications & Experience:**

+ Bachelor’s degree.
+ Masters degree highly preferred.
+ 10-Year background in delivering scalable, compliant, Enterprise Architecture.
+ SAP landscape knowledge (SAP BTP, S/4HANA, IS-U) and integration with non-SAP systems desirable.
+ Proven experience with cloud platforms, hybrid architecture.
+ Utilities Enterprise Architecture experience/knowledge a plus.

**Skills & Competencies** :

+ Strategic thinking and business acumen.
+ Deep understanding of enterprise integration patterns and middleware tools.
+ Excellent knowledge of utility industry processes and regulatory requirements.
+ Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills
+ Familiarity with modern architecture trends.
+ Core skills:
+ SAFe Agile
+ Application Design & Architecture
+ Big Data Technologies
+ AI (AI/ML, GenAI, Agentic)
+ Cloud Fundamentals
+ Data Structure & Entity Modeling
+ Data Security
+ DevOps Practices
+ Distributed Systems & Messaging
+ Event Driven Architecture
+ Lean User Experience
+ Roadmap Creation and Product Vision
+ Security Fundamentals
+ Software Architecture
+ UI/UX Concepts
+ Vendor Landscape
+ **Application Archietecture**
+ N-Tier
+ Microservices
+ Domain Driven Design
+ **Collaboration Tools:**
+ Agile work management tooling expertise.
+ **Data Architecture**
+ NoSQL
+ Relational Databases
+ Data Platforms (e.g. Data Bricks, MSFT Data Fabric)
+ **Archietecture/Framework**
+ API / System Integration
+ **Cloud Architecture**
+ Containerization – Docker, Kubernetes
+ Data Lakes
+ IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
+ Microsoft Operating Framework
+ Purpose Built Analytics
+ Microsoft Azure
+ **Operations & Deployment Architecture**
+ Git
+ Azure Application Service
+ **KPIs / Success Metrics**
+ Alignment of IT strategy with business objectives
+ Reduction in technology complexity and operational costs
+ Uptime and performance of integrated enterprise platforms
+ Successful delivery of strategic transformation programs
+ Compliance with architecture, governance and standards

**Required Qualifications & Experience:**

+ Bachelor’s degree.
+ Masters degree highly preferred.
+ 10-Year background in delivering scalable, compliant, Enterprise Architecture.
+ SAP landscape knowledge (SAP BTP, S/4HANA, IS-U) and integration with non-SAP systems desirable.
+ Proven experience with cloud platforms, hybrid architecture.
+ Utilities Enterprise Architecture experience/knowledge a plus.

**Skills & Competencies** :

+ Strategic thinking and business acumen.
+ Deep understanding of enterprise integration patterns and middleware tools.
+ Excellent knowledge of utility industry processes and regulatory requirements.
+ Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills
+ Familiarity with modern architecture trends.
+ Core skills:
+ SAFe Agile
+ Application Design & Architecture
+ Big Data Technologies
+ AI (AI/ML, GenAI, Agentic)
+ Cloud Fundamentals
+ Data Structure & Entity Modeling
+ Data Security
+ DevOps Practices
+ Distributed Systems & Messaging
+ Event Driven Architecture
+ Lean User Experience
+ Roadmap Creation and Product Vision
+ Security Fundamentals
+ Software Architecture
+ UI/UX Concepts
+ Vendor Landscape
+ **Application Archietecture**
+ N-Tier
+ Microservices
+ Domain Driven Design
+ **Collaboration Tools:**
+ Agile work management tooling expertise.
+ **Data Architecture**
+ NoSQL
+ Relational Databases
+ Data Platforms (e.g. Data Bricks, MSFT Data Fabric)
+ **Archietecture/Framework**
+ API / System Integration
+ **Cloud Architecture**
+ Containerization – Docker, Kubernetes
+ Data Lakes
+ IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
+ Microsoft Operating Framework
+ Purpose Built Analytics
+ Microsoft Azure
+ **Operations & Deployment Architecture**
+ Git
+ Azure Application Service
+ **KPIs / Success Metrics**
+ Alignment of IT strategy with business objectives
+ Reduction in technology complexity and operational costs
+ Uptime and performance of integrated enterprise platforms
+ Successful delivery of strategic transformation programs
+ Compliance with architecture, governance and standards

**Strategic Leadership** :

+ Responsible for a $1.5 billion portfolio
+ Develop Point of Views on technology, industry and market trends, and determine their potential impact on the enterprise, and set go forward strategies to move towards the utility of the future vision.
+ Drive innovation by aligning the mindset towards moving from technology driven to business outcome driven architecture
+ Collaborate with Value Stream Enterprise Architects on the creation and/or evolution of the EA function or program.
+ Collaborate with IT and Business leaders to develop digital vision and build the digital strategy
+ Analyze the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, and recommend solutions for improvement
+ Lead the identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers to derive enterprise business, information, technical and solution (BITS) architecture requirements
+ Consult with application/infrastructure development projects to fit systems to architecture, and identify when it is necessary to modify the technical architecture to accommodate project needs
+ Understand, advocate and lead the enterprise's information technology strategies
+ Responsible for the development and ongoing support of key architectural solution components
+ Drive the continual development of the architectural runway for each of the value streams
+ Manages and is accountable for driving the development of solution of cross value stream architecture issues

**Architecture Governance** :

+ Establish and maintain architecture principles, frameworks and governance processes.
+ Define standards for solution architecture, integration, and data management across platforms.
+ Drives the development and ongoing facilitation of the enterprise architecture process driving processes like: New Technology Approval Process and Architecture Review Board.

**Solutions Architecture** :

+ Assesses wider industry technology trends (e.g., artificial intelligence, robot process automation, internet of things, cloud, dev ops, microservices etc.) and best practices to identify best-in-class Technology and architecture direction and is responsible for high level architectural design as well as playing a crucial role in identifying new technologies that could affect overall business strategy.

Additional responsibilities include:
+ Contribution towards the improvement of the Architecture process
+ Architectural technology standards within their specific discipline
+ Governance of architecture standards
+ Technology strategy
+ Works with various Technology teams to champion the adoption of patterns, platforms, and tools to support the usage and conformity of solution architecture

**Platform Engineering** :

+ Defines and builds the next generation platform to support a myriad of needs from integration to API centralization across all portfolios
+ Leads a team of engineers to build, scale, and adopt common APIs, tools, and systems supporting several other products and portfolios
+ Continues to drive innovation and modern technologies to simplify and streamline effort required to build new capabilities
+ Maintains existing Enterprise Architecture applications and solutions

**Platform Oversight (SAP & Non-SAP)** :

+ Oversight of the end-to-end architecture across SAP (S/4HANA, SAP, SAP BTP, SAP CPI) and non-SAP systems
+ Ensure seamless integration between platforms using APIs, middleware and microservices.
+ Guide ERP consolidation and cloud migration strategies.

**Risk & Compliance** :

+ Ensure enterprise architecture complies with cybersecurity, data privacy, and industry regulations
+ Design architecture that is resilient, secure, and supports disaster recovery strategies.

**Stakeholder Management:**

+ Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders in IT, operations, and business.
+ Work with project managers, solution architects, and delivery teams to ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture.

Remote Work
The company reserves the right to determine if this position will be assigned to work on-site, remotely, or a combination of both.

Assigned work location may change.

In the case of remote work, physical presence in the office/on-site may be required to engage in face-to-face interaction and coordination of work among direct reports and co-workers.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Our company is an equal opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identify, genetic information, disability status, or any other protected characteristic.

Required Skill Profession

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