Enterprise Architect Principal (Utility Asset Management)

Location: Hybrid in Oakland, California, with remote work and attendance at the Oakland office approximately 1–2 days per week or more based on business needs.

Salary: $155,000–$210,000 annually; Bay Area salary range: $155,000–$265,000. The role is also eligible for discretionary incentive compensation.

Company

PG&E's Information Technology organization designs, develops, operates, and maintains the technology and telecommunications systems supporting utility operations and customer service.

What you will do

• Develop technology roadmaps for Asset Management, including inspections, risk management, analytics and reporting, and digital twins.
• Assess current application environments and define future-state IT target architectures for asset and risk domains.
• Partner with senior business and IT leaders to align enterprise strategy, investments, portfolio modernization, and business capabilities.
• Lead vendor assessments, support RFPs, and drive application rationalization efforts.
• Coordinate roadmaps across enterprise groups to manage dependencies, conflicts, redundancies, and interdependencies.
• Provide architecture guidance to delivery teams through reusable patterns, reference architectures, decision frameworks, and implementation best practices.

Requirements

• 10 years of enterprise architecture experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Strong analytical, leadership, communication, interpersonal, and project management skills.
• Experience with diverse technologies and platforms, business and data architecture, capability mapping, process reengineering, solution architecture, and project implementation.
• Ability to solve complex issues with cross-functional teams and work in an agile environment.

Nice to have

• Utility industry experience, particularly in asset and risk management, inspections, analytics and reporting, or AI implementation.
• Experience with SAP, GIS, enterprise reporting and analytics, and AI implementation for asset risk management.
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• Architecture certification such as TOGAF.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a centralized enterprise architecture group supporting safety, reliability, affordability, reuse, rationalization, optimization, and standardization.
• Collaborate regularly with business, IT, enterprise architecture, and implementation teams.
• Coach and mentor implementation teams throughout the value chain.
• Participate in discretionary incentive compensation programs.