Junior Enterprise Architect, IT-OT

Overview

Con Edison is seeking an IT-OT Architect with a strong Operational Technology (OT) foundation who is eager to grow into a future enterprise architecture leader. The role provides business and 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 IT-OT 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 OT business capability efforts. This position works in close partnership with business units, OT teams, application owners, domain architects, and developers to ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and effectively support business objectives. By evaluating integration options across IT/OT 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead proof-of-concept initiatives to promote Enterprise Architecture understanding. Develop reference materials, enforce architectural/cyber security standards, and design both conceptual and physical OT/IT application architectures, including business process frameworks
• Oversee architecture, solution reviews, and ensure compliance with Enterprise Technology & Security (ETS) standards. Coordinates with internal teams and partners to address issues and supports teams in implementing established architectural strategies
• Share expertise and ensure that teams are continuously improving and learning together to meet current and future IT/OT engineering and architecture needs; create 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 designs, and integrate OT/IT deliverables within projects. Develops comprehensive Request for Proposal (RFP) specifications; identifies, assesses, and recommends new enterprise-level OT/IT technology solutions to support both current and future capital project requirements and objectives
• Strong desire and initiative to lead and drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly and champion new concepts
• Lead and develop a highperforming team by inspiring, coaching, and challenging staff, advancing enterprise architecture adoption, fostering a standardsdriven culture, and strengthening inhouse expertise and talent.
• 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

Qualifications

• 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
• Knowledgeable in, or interested in, learning about commodity OT resources and platforms such as protective relays, real-time automation controllers, data concentrators, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), remote terminal units (RTUs), data diodes, sensors, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, AMI infrastructure, distributed energy resources (DERs), smart grids, SCADA systems, OT data historians, etc., required
• Knowledgeable in, or interested in, learning about business processes, technology workflows, and operational needs throughout the utility environment such as the transmission & distribution electric power system, substations, gas distribution system, steam generation and distribution system, and the local & remote operations of each, required
• Ability to create in-depth technology reference architectures, technology playbooks, and detailed design diagrams. Must be able to effectively communicate and present reference architectures, required
• Experience and expertise in communication protocols and security measures for Operational Technology (OT) field devices. This includes configuring and securing communication channels, implementing security policies, and ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of data transmitted between field devices and control systems, required
• Strong understanding of, and can apply, industry best practices in network segmentation (high value, corporate, etc.), secure field device communication, and robust infrastructure design to ensure safe and reliable utility operations, required
• Familiarity with OT protocols such as DNP3, Modbus, IEC 61850, etc., preferred
• Experience or conversant in emerging cloud technologies and practices, e.g., cloud computing components and services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) in Azure, AWS, GC, OCI or other cloud providers, preferred
• 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, preferred

• Effective interpersonal skills
• Ability to drive multiple projects to successful completion
• Demonstrated problem solving skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Possesses strong technical aptitude
• Proactively approaches responsibilities
• 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.
• Flexible and able to work off-hours as required to support deployments, help resolve production problems or respond to corporate emergencies.