Senior Solution Architect

About the role

At Alliant Energy, we are passionate about powering beyond the market challenges of today, while powering what's next in energy. We are looking for a Senior Solution Architect to help design the blueprint for our future.

Responsibilities

• Performs in a technical leadership and oversight role for their immediate team.
• Supports alignment of solutions with enterprise architecture and collaborates with domain architects.
• Works with internal team and stakeholders to design and implement architecture-centric solutions.
• Responsible for documenting and communicating the architectural design of software and hardware solutions.
• Develops, refines, optimizes, and supports the solution architecture as required to meet the business needs and non-functional requirements.
• Creates and maintains solution architecture artifacts, applying best practices and contributing to approval processes.
• Provides technical guidance to team members and contributes to solving complex problems.
• Engages with business stakeholders to understand required capabilities, data flows, integrations and dependencies, integrating business knowledge with technical solutions.
• Collaborates with other Architects and technical staff to determine the most appropriate technical strategy and designs to meet business needs.
• Demonstrates technical leadership within the team, influencing practices and mentoring others.
• Applies existing best practices and contributes to evaluating new technologies when appropriate.
• Supports assessment of compatibility and integration of products and services within assigned scope.
• Engages in other duties as needed that support Alliant Energy’s Values and helps deliver on our Purpose to serve customers and build stronger communities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree | Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.
• 5+ years of work experience in IT, including 3 years in software development or application architecture, and 3 years of experience in solution architecture.
• Preferred experience in cloud technologies, development using containerization technologies such as Docker, K8s, defining a variety of solution types, integrating COTS software packages, Software as a Service or Platform as a Service as components of the solution, TOGAF methodology, design patterns, object-oriented analysis and design, integration systems, data transfer approaches, analytics, modeling/diagramming tools.

Qualifications

• Good understanding of design patterns and object-oriented analysis and design.
• Experience with integration systems, data transfer approaches, analytics.
• Experience with modeling/diagramming tools.

Skills

• Application Security Systems Integration Network Architecture Architecture Strategy Cloud Architectures Technology Governance API Integration Security Architecture Design Enterprise Architecture Planning (EAP) Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Benefits

Our people are passionate about what they do, the product they sell, and the customers they serve. If you're looking for an opportunity to be a part of a work family that values collaboration, innovation and dedication, we're the right company for you. Alliant Energy offers a comprehensive total rewards package including competitive compensation and benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.

Pay

The final salary offered will generally fall within the range of $94,000 - $128,000 and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.

Schedule

This position is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program.

Skills

• Application Security Systems Integration Network Architecture Architecture Strategy Cloud Architectures Technology Governance API Integration Security Architecture Design Enterprise Architecture Planning (EAP) Artificial Intelligence (AI)