Solutions Architect

Summary

Spire is seeking a Solutions Architect to support Enterprise Asset Management and Field Technologies.  This position will focus on providing the necessary analysis and design tasks related to support the development of technological solutions to ensure these solutions meet business needs and align with enterprise architectural governance and standards.    

Company Overview

We are committed to understanding the needs of the homes and businesses we serve. That's why we're always looking for driven, collaborative people to join our team. Because we believe that offering our customers the best service means bringing together the best people.

And we find the best by hiring those who share our values of safety, inclusion and integrity, and demonstrate the competencies that bring the Spire vision, mission and culture to life:

• Adaptability: We embrace change, continuously seeking opportunities for improvement while remaining open-minded and flexible in response to evolving conditions and customer, stakeholder and company needs.
• Collaboration: We achieve more together through a foundation of respect, embracing healthy conflict, actively seeking and providing actionable feedback and fostering an environment where everyone’s input is welcomed.
• Ownership: We see things through, demonstrate accountability, honor commitments, take responsibility for outcomes and demonstrate initiative.

By living our values and competencies, we strive to create an environment where employees feel welcome, respected and valued.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural solution blueprint to achieve business goals and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.
• Provides and maintains architectural designs and diagrams for individual and collective solutions and products.
• Works with architects throughout the organization to create and define technology roadmap in developing vision for solutions and assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business and IT estate.
• Leads design and analysis for the implementation of a solutions based on value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards.
• Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of both standard and custom software configurations for the solution in scope.
• Strong ability to translate solution roadmap into annual planning and budget cycle.
• Works closely with product management to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the specific product lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of agile DevOps principles and ability to lead teams and organization in alignment and transformation.
• Provides consulting support to technical personnel and software engineers within agile teams to ensure the project or product is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture.
• Ability to depict and communicate technical work in the form of product features in conjunction with Product Management and prioritize accordingly alongside business enhancements and enterprise initiatives.
• Creates and maintains technical standards and policies at a solution level, in conjunction with architects throughout the organization.
• Breaks down technical work into features, accept technical feature work, ensuring acceptance criteria and definition of done are achieved.
• Addresses dependencies at a solution level, providing oversight and guidance as needed.
• Understand software licensing and the impact of licensing when making technology decisions.
• Work with Information Security to complete security testing on applications.

Essential Characteristics

• Deep understanding of solution value-streams and business activities
• Ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences
• Understanding of long-term ("big picture") versus short-term perspectives of situations
• Ability to translate business requirements into solution architecture requirements
• Quickly adapt to work creatively and analytically to solve business problems and propose solutions
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies
• Demonstrate servant leader mindset
• Understanding of Agile values and principles and the ability to translate that knowledge to practices
• Understand and operate within lean budget guardrails
• Foster psychological safety across the entire ITS organization
• Demonstrate Lean-Agile thinking
• Believes in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, and trust across the train

Supervisory Responsibilities

• No direct reports, but indirect influential leadership skills required

Required Education (certifications, licenses)

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information-technology, engineering, system analysis or a related study
• SAFe certification(s) a plus
• Minimum 3 years working in an agile environment a plus

Required knowledge, skill and abilities

• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms, and processing environments
• Hands-on experience working with Maximo, version MAS 8.x or higher
• Knowledge of Red Hat OpenShift  
• Experience with Field Service Management platforms, such as Oracle Field Service, including best practices for field operations and experience designing and supporting integrations between field systems, customer platforms and Maximo.
• Strong experience working with PL/SQL and SQL
• Experience consuming and integrating web-based services using SOAP, WSDL, XSDs and REST
• Knowledge of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g or higher, including SOA, BPEL, WebLogic Server and ADF
• Experience with client-side web-development markup and languages (HTML, JavaScript, CSS), jQuery, and modern responsive design UX frameworks such as Bootstrap

Physical demands, environment and schedule

• Hybrid Remote/Office environment, preferred
• Work performed primarily during business hours, with off-hours support required at times
• Some Travel may be required as ITS and teams are disparate across locations

Posting Requirements

Spire accepts online applications through our career site at jobs.spireenergy.com.

Posting requirements: The above posting description is intended to describe the general nature of the level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each duty and responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

Spire, Inc., and its subsidiaries are Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. 

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all areas, including but not necessarily limited to, recruitment, selection, training, education, compensation, benefits, promotion, job transfer, upgrading, separation and recall regardless of the individual’s race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, and/or other protected categories under all Federal, State, and local laws. For more information, please view our Integrity and Inclusion pages of our career site.