Principal Solution Architect

Company: NATIONAL GRID CO USA (NE POWER)
Location: Revere
Posted on: July 28, 2022

Job Description:

As part of National Grid s continued commitment to safety, all new hires must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Anyone unable to be vaccinated, either because of a sincerely held religious belief or medical reason can request a reasonable accommodation.

About us

National Grid is hiring a Principal Solution Architect - API for our IT/Digital team in Waltham, MA. This role could be located in any part of National Grid's service area (MA, NY, PA, MD, NJ, CT, NH, RI, MN).

Every day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live. The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry.

To be successful we must anticipate the needs of our customers, reducing the cost of energy delivery today and pioneering the flexible energy systems of tomorrow. This requires us to deliver on our promises and always look for new opportunities to grow, both ourselves and our business.

Job Purpose

The Principal Solution Architect contributes to the design and development and maintenance of Interfaces and APIs for the overall NationalGrid IT Solutions. The Architect lead technical teams through multi-phased delivery projects and provide hands-on delivery guidance to influence technical standards for development, governance, and operational life cycle.

• The ideal candidate will be responsible for owning and delivering design and development in one or more of the following Node js, Express js, Springboot, MuleSoft.
• The candidate will own reviewing design elements and signing off on the overall technical design.
• The candidate will be responsible for ensuring that the system accurately meets the defined expectations of the business, ensuring that proper testing is implemented, and performance and security requirements are closely monitored by working with the project teams.
• The candidate must also have experience providing level of effort estimates for technical portion of solutions.
  Key Accountabilities
  • Lead technical teams through multi-phased delivery projects and provide hands-on delivery guidance for API development
  • Participate in all phases of software development life cycle including development of technical requirements, prototyping, coding, testing, deployment and support
  • Define and manage the technology landscape and blueprint for entire solution stack
  • Build, orchestrate, and deploy complex integration patterns between system, process, and experience layers of API
  • Provide programming and technical expertise to ensure business solutions are met
  • Ensure consistent best practices, processes, and procedures for software development, quality assurance, and maintenance
  • Identify technical risks and opportunities for each product
  • Engage in sprint planning, delivery and managing the releases
  • Work with Product Development teams to align engineering efforts to business value
  • Interpret requirements to develop APIs and integrations using Agile methodology
  • Design and Implement APIs as per the design specification and National Grid architecture standards
  • Ensure that code, configurations and other work products are thoroughly unit-tested prior to delivery
  • Perform code reviews and other quality checks as requested
  • Participate in system/integration testing as appropriate
    Supervisory/Interpersonal- Experience Required
    • Good stakeholder management and influencing skills at project stakeholder level
    • Good written and verbal communications skills
      
      Qualifications
      • Bachelor s degree in computer science or related field
      • 15+ years software development experience; 5+ years API development in Cloud Platform
      • Experience architecting capabilities utilizing the following technologies: Linux OS, Enterprise Application Integration Design Patterns, Application Servers, Java, XML, JMS, MQ, and Maven
      • Experience with:
        • Azure PaaS and SaaS; App Service Fabric, App Service Environment, API Management
        • JSON, REST, APIs and high scale performant service facades
        • Azure Identity Management and Security; Service Bus; Event Hub; Event Grid
        • Azure Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
        • Azure Operational and Monitoring tools
        • API & WebService testing tools: SOAP UI, Postman, Advanced REST Client
        • D efining API specs, API Gateways, Mule Run Time Fabric, Anypoint Platform, Access Management, Mule Runtime, Mule SDK, MUnit, Dataweave, Runtime Manager
        • Integration product architecture
          • Technology design that includes Performance, Security, Availability, Operations, Monitoring and Support
          • SQL, CosmosDB, Cassandra, Mongo DB, NoSQL, Managed File Transfers
          • Integration best practices, design principles for a range of application technologies
          • CI/CD via Azure DevOps Services
            
            More Information
            
            This position has a career path which provides for advancement opportunities within and across bands as you develop and evolve in the position; gaining experience, expertise and acquiring and applying technical skills. Internal candidates will be assessed and provided offers against the minimum qualifications of this role and their individual experience.
            
            National Grid is an equal opportunity employer that values a broad diversity of talent, knowledge, experience and expertise. We foster a culture of inclusion that drives employee engagement to deliver superior performance to the communities we serve. National Grid is proud to be an affirmative action employer. We encourage minorities, women, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans to join the National Grid team.
            
            Please be advised that due to the nature of this position, incumbents are subject to federal Drug & Alcohol safety regulations governing US Department of Transportation ("DOT") covered positions, including the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and Pipeline Hazardous Material Safety Administration (PHMSA). As such, the Company s testing programs and policies regarding the use of federally prohibited drugs or alcohol, for recreational or medical purposes, will remain in effect for these safety-sensitive, DOT covered positions.
            
            National Grid is an equal opportunity employer that values a broad diversity of talent, knowledge, experience and expertise. We foster a culture of inclusion that drives employee engagement to deliver superior performance to the communities we serve. National Grid is proud to be an affirmative action employer. We encourage minorities, women, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans to join the National Grid team.
            
            

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