Energy and Utilities Industry Architect

Introduction
As an IBM Application Architect you directly help clients transform their business  and solve complex problems. You will define the scope and vision for projects that deliver customized solutions using your knowledge of IBM platforms.  You are a technical leader serving as a liaison among business partners technical resources and project stakeholders.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Lead work and assets management architecture engagement and client projects.
• Develop and maintain relationship with lead client technical experts.
• Develop and own Energy and utilities industry focused assets and global offerings.
• Develop and run global industry community of experts.
• Ensure client satisfaction and develop new business.
• Create personal eminence by participating in industry forums and working groups.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Implementing architectural principles for performance scalability security governance relability and flexibility and how to use them in different scenarios.
• Defining end to end Solution Architectures for large scale systems
• Implementing System Integration patterns and architectures (EAI ESB Message Broker Service Orchestration REST Event driven hybrid integration high-volume streaming)
• Defining Enterprise Application and Integration architectural components in UML and other notations
• Setting up Centralized IT Governance / Competency Centers for clients Technlogy stack selection Product evaluation for Customers
• Defining Continous Delivery / Continuous Integration Solutions (Jenkins Ansible Jfrog SonarQube
• Junit Mirantis Kubernetes Docker Swarm)
• Modern Observability Frameworks (Dynatrace InfluxDB Prometheus Grafana Splunk Broadcom)
• Enterprise Schedulers (Autosys BMC Redwood)
• Enterprise Architecture (EA) frameworks (Sparx Rational SAP)
• Business Process Management Automation Orchestration Choreography (Fuego iProcess Pega)
• Business Rules Engine (iLog Pega Tibco BE)
• Complex Event Processing (Oracle CEP Tibco BusinessEvents)
• Streaming Analytics (Kafka Streambase Informatica BDM Streaming)
• Database Management / Cache Management (Oracle SQL Server Postgres Tibco Activespaces
• Elastic Gigaspaces Greenplum)
• Big Data Infrastructure – Cloudera Hadoop Distribution Stack (Apache Hadoop (Core) Hbase Hive
• Impala Kafka Spark Sqoop)
• Data Movement – Informatica Powerexchange Fluentd Informatica Change Data Capture Informatica
• Big Data Mgmt. (BDM)
• Data Engineering Governance – Cloudera Hadoop Informatica EDC Terradata Data Warehousing
• Data Marts
• BI / Reporting / Analytics – Cognos PowerBI SAS Tibco Spotfire
• Web Layer – Weblogic Portals Oracle Webcenter Tomcat WebApps
• Middleware tools and technologies – Tibco SAP Oracle IBM Webshere MuleSoft Webmethods
• Vitria ActiveMQ Kafka JMS
• API Management Proxy Softwares Hardwar/Software Load Balancers (Layer7 APIgee Mulesoft
• Tibco Mashery Netscaler Nginx F5)
• Cloud Computing (limited exposure) – AWS Azure

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Smart Metering Advanced Metering for Electric Gas and Water
• Customer Information Systems (SAP IS-U Oracle CC&B Customer/1)
• Asset and Work Mgmt Systems (Asset Suite Service Suite; Maximo SAP)
• Meter Data Mgmt (Itron IEE eMeter/EnergyIP MDMS OSI Soft Lodestar)
• Head End Systems (Itron Openway Silver Springs Network SmartSynch Sensus)
• Advanced Distribution Management Systems (Schneider GE Alstom)