The California Independent System Operator (ISO) manages the flow of electricity across the high-voltage, long-distance power lines that make up 80 percent of California's power grid. We safeguard the economy and well-being of 30 million Californians by operating the grid reliably 24/7.

As the impartial grid operator, the California ISO opens access to the wholesale power market that is designed to diversify resources and lower prices. It also grants equal access to 25,865 circuit-miles of power lines and reduces barriers to diverse resources competing to bring power to customers.

The California ISO's function is often compared to that of air traffic controllers. It would be grossly unfair for air traffic controllers to represent one airline and profit from allowing that company's planes to go through before others. In the same way, the California ISO operates independently—managing the electron traffic on a power grid we do not own—making sure electricity is safely delivered to utilities and consumers on time and reliably.

The California ISO is committed to the health, safety, and work/life integration of it employees and is proud to offer flexible work arrangements. This position would be eligible to participate in a hybrid schedule. 

Relocation Assistance is available.

Under the general direction of the Manager, provides architectural, system engineering, and data modeling support for enterprise level applications including energy management systems, market systems, financial, and others. Participates in the strategy, development, and implementation of information models representing power system and energy market subject matter used in data repository, systems integration technologies, and Common Information Model (CIM).  Within a coordinated Software Design Life Cycle process (SDLC), coordinates with other business units and technology projects to assess, design, and implement changes to UML data models and associated integration. Contributes to the development and execution of strategic roadmaps, including the implementation and support of IT systems that maintain the enterprise UML model(s) as well as IT systems that maintain instance data based in the enterprise models. In the planning phase of IT projects, works with business SME’s and IT analysts on the requirements specifications related to data and integration modeling.  Thereafter, works with internal and external applications development teams related to development of web services based on the enterprise models. Executes architecture and engineering processes with discipline and predictability. Assesses software business and technical requirements to define optimal technical solutions using common enterprise components and subsequently measures project compliance against the defined solution sets. Collaborates with vendors to understand technical features of our hardware and software products to maximize the investment in those products through architectural and systems engineering solutions.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Develops and promotes standards and policies for data architecture and modeling, and mentors other architects in best practices.  Defines, documents, and communicates Enterprise IT Architecture Standards and influences project teams and business partners to comply with those standards. Communicates and educates internal clients on the ISO’s enterprise application and systems architecture principles, policies and standards via a variety of methods including oral and written presentations, lecturers, etc.
• Participates in the development and maintenance of enterprise UML model(s) representing CAISO network and commercial concepts such as business semantics and metadata workflow management. Manages application and product roadmaps, develops and updates schedules, positions features within the enterprise and prevents overlaps. Measures project software architecture compliance using defined metrics.
• Works with business units to document requirements, implement updates to enterprise UML models and integration profiles, and develops web services technical artifacts needed by developers. Translates technical requirements into a solution architecture, which respects enterprise standards and services and meets customer’s expectations. Engineers hardware solutions down to the component level for a variety of software requirements in support of enterprise initiatives.
• Provides senior level technical expertise on CAISO UML / CIM modeling and related industry standards, and serves as a point-of-contact to advise both external groups and ISO personnel on business related matters. May serve as a committee member to industry related consortiums. Maintains extensive product knowledge and expertise. Stays current on IT trends and best practices, leverage 3rd-party research and attends technical training/conferences as appropriate. Demonstrates leadership, subject matter expertise and mentors and guides other team members. 
• Diagnoses, isolates, and resolves complex problems related to data models and associated data repositories and web services.
• Performs user acceptance testing for systems related to UML model and instance data maintenance.

Level of Education and Discipline:

A Bachelor's degree (BA, BS) or equivalent education, training or experience in Power Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or related field. Master Degree preferred.

Amount of Experience:

Equivalent years of education and training, plus six (6) or more years related experience.

Type of Experience:

Modeling Software and ability to generate WSDL, XSD, and OpenAPI specification files. A thorough understanding of common solution architectures for backup and recovery, multi-site disaster recovery, storage system connectivity and space provisioning, enterprise monitoring, high-availability clusters, data center utilization, and network connectivity. Requires a thorough understanding of ITIL processes and their role in the data center and the software solutions in support of them. Experience using Oracle HRMS preferred. Knowledge of OpenAPI, Kafka, SOA, and other Integrations Buses.

Additional Skills and Abilities:

Demonstrates fundamental leadership skills with the ability to work effectively in a team environment as a leader, facilitator and team member.  Ability to provide practical and feasible solutions to problems, keeping multiple conflicting considerations into account. Excellent interpersonal, communication, and writing skills required. Excellent analytical skills are required, including the ability to effectively communicate complex technical materials and concepts in a non-technical manner.  Must be able to handle a dynamic and changing work environment, and work independently. Strong computer skills in Microsoft Office Suite. Self-motivated, problem solving skills and the ability to influence others without direct authority.

Demonstrates an ability to innovate, find and propose new solutions to complex application and system architecture issues.   

The pay range for this position is $62.31 - $103.85 / hourly.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.