Solution Architect - GridOS ADMS in Edinburgh

You are a technical client-focused Solution specialist who seeks to understand emerging energy industry trends and implications on utilities. As Solution Architect GridOS - ADMS you will be part of the Solution Design team, dedicated to ensuring best in class and optimal technical design to meet customer functional and non-functional requirements, project budget and timescale. You will drive, validate and audit the design of the solution during the different phases of the execution of a project (Scope Review, Statement of Work, Solution review, Factory Acceptance Tests, Site Acceptance Tests, etc.).

Essential Responsibilities – Day-to-day

• Engage with utility clients to understand their business needs and the impact of emerging trends as distributed energy resources (DERs) on their distribution system.
• Collaborate with the Services function (Delivery Manager and Project Manager) to interact with customers, defining, producing and maintaining an optimal Solution Design based on customer needs and product capabilities.
• Own the design deliverables (Statement of Work, Solution Architecture documents) and ensure traceability of requirements with the proposed solutions.
• Be responsible for the communication and enforcement of the Solution Design to Customer and Key Project Stakeholders.
• Manage involvement of other SMEs (e.g. business analysts, IT / Cybersecurity experts) and ensure their design contributions meet system architecture functional and non-functional requirements.
• Drive excellence in execution through continuous improvement in their segment or domain (best practices and reference material - reference architectures, reference solutions).
• Collaborate with Product Managers & Engineering (Customer Voice, Return on Experience, product enhancements, reference architectures).
• Build technical expertise in the field of their segment or domain and deliver technical consultancy services on demand.
• Coordinate knowledge capitalization and dissemination across the Services & Solution Design teams.
• Be accountable for activities planning, progress reporting, and completing activities in scope as per approved budget.

Qualifications/Requirements – Must Have

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related program, with a focus on Computer Science and Electrical Engineering / Power Systems.
• Electricity industry knowledge, with proven relevant work experience as a Business Analyst or Solution Architect.
• Ability to trace a requirement to a design specification and the test plans/cases.
• You bring software development experience and have integrated custom solutions with a product, specifically the GE Vernova GridOS ADMS product.
• Experience with Linux, Source code Management, Virtualization, Cloud Architecture (AWS and/or Azure), Micro-services architectures.
• Experience with cloud and cloud-native technologies such as containers and Kubernetes.
• Exposure to iterative product development and program management techniques including Agile, Safe, Scrum, DevOps.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and the ability to articulate specific technical topics or assignments.
• Professional English level.

Qualifications/Requirements – Nice to Have

• Knowledge of emerging energy industry trends and implications on utility customers (Renewables and DER orchestration, distribution planning, IT/OT, SCADA).
• Experience in Services – Software Commissioning.
• Experience of utility network management systems, ideally in the electricity industry.
• Experience of SCADA.
• Exposure to Outage Management and Customer Call Centre applications.
• Familiarity with CIM / CGMES standards, IEC 61970/61968, or other energy modeling frameworks.
• Familiarity with power systems analysis e.g. load flow, short circuit analysis.
• Experience of system integration e.g. SOAP, REST, Kafka, etc.
• Experience of scripting and/or programming languages e.g. shell, perl, python, java, etc.
• Familiarity with database technologies including RDBMS, SQL, NoSQL and data modeling, data migration.

Relocation Assistance Provided: No