Senior Emerging & AI Technology Architect

At the New York Power Authority, we're not just part of the energy landscape-we're leading the charge toward a carbonfree, resilient, and economically vibrant New York. Our work keeps the state moving, innovating, and thriving.

The Senior Emerging & AI Technology Architect serves as a strategic, hands-on architect, bridging business objectives with solutions in emerging technologies and AI within the IT and electric energy sector. The candidate will assume the responsibilities of an Emerging Technologies and AI Architect, emphasizing the identification, evaluation, development, and advancement of technical opportunities for NYPA.

This role entails researching, designing, and implementing advanced solutions using Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Generative AI, and other emerging technologies. The goal is to leverage these advanced technologies to optimize grid operations, enhance energy efficiency, enable predictive maintenance, and support the transition to a sustainable, smart energy ecosystem. The candidate will collaborate with various business units, such as Energy Generation, Transmission, Finance, Engineering, Canals etc., to build prototypes, validate and support deploying enterprise-grade applications.

Success in this role necessitates deep expertise in Responsible AI Governance and Risk Management, applying NYPA's AI governance framework for identity integration, observability, ethics, and regulatory compliance. Additionally, the candidate must possess advanced knowledge of AI and GenAI design patterns and understand how to manage the full lifecycle of AI models. A comprehensive understanding of data architecture, governance and compliance, cloud computing concepts, and solution engineering practices is essential for success in this role. The candidate must be adept at mapping business capabilities and aligning them with value streams to ensure technology delivers real business outcomes.

In addition, the role requires strong leadership in managing technical relationships, coordinating solution briefings, proof-of-concept efforts, and aligning designs with enterprise architecture principles. The candidate acts as a connective hub across architecture disciplines, closely working with the Enterprise Architecture Engineering (EAE) team to coordinate design reviews, enforce architecture principles, and accelerate delivery to ensure solutions are aligned with industry trends, emerging technologies, and partner ecosystems to effectively shape innovation strategies.

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• Actively drive common standards, best practices and process improvements across the development teams.
• Oversee project efforts to identify/document client/user requirements, and lead effort to design/develop/test solutions to meet defined specifications. Ensure project teams uncover, comprehend, and document complex business requirements, challenges, and processes.
• Support in developing and maintaining Enterprise Architecture & Engineering standards and frameworks that drive the Technology strategy within one or more specific disciplines.
• Oversee, develop conceptual and logical models representing database solutions to be incorporated into technical designs.
• Communicate technical business solutions to senior Information Technology and Business Unit Management as well as to peers and staff, for understanding, agreement, and implementation.
• Provide expert insight and advice on developing conceptual and logical models representing database solutions to be incorporated into technical designs.
• Influence the technology strategy through in-depth understanding of customer needs and technical understanding to align business outcomes to technology strategy and roadmaps.

• Demonstrated ability to identify and quickly learn, understand, and work with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate with a diverse audience at all levels of the organization.
• Experience developing and reviewing project planning activities related to architecture including: schedules, budgets and deadlines.
• Experience in producing technical documentation and delivering presentations to a wide variety of technical, business and executive audiences.
• Knowledgeable in advanced concepts and business issues of cloud computing, datacenter consolidation, IT infrastructure services, cyber security, data management services, etc.
• Ability to quickly assess technology and business impacts of network administration and security principles and practices for technology projects
• Proficiency in architecting applications across SaaS / IaaS / PaaS and Hybrid cloud environments.
• Ability to lead team members by providing clear direction, coaching, mentoring, and constructive feedback.

• Bachelor of Science Degree in an IT related field preferred. An advanced degree is preferred.
• Minimum 8 years or more experience of providing solution engineering, application architecture and systems integration services for technology projects preferred.
• Experience leading delivery of complex software projects by analyzing business and application requirements.
• Knowledge of EA and SA principles and frameworks.
• Professional experience in architecting/operating solutions built on public cloud platforms with Solution Architecture certification (TOGAF, AWS, Azure, Google etc.,)

Overnight travel to the various NYPA locations within New York State.