Enterprise Architect V

About Us

South Jersey Industries (SJI) is an energy holding company that delivers clean energy services to 700,000+ customers and businesses throughout 14 counties in New Jersey. As part of our core values, SJI is dedicated to being a community partner and developing innovative clean energy solutions to meet the needs of the future. To do this, we depend on our workforce of over 1,100+ talented, diverse employees who help us deliver safe, reliable, affordable clean energy for a better today and tomorrow.

At SJI, we believe that our employees are our most valuable asset. Whether you’re a seasoned operations technician or an early-career legal professional, our culture, inclusive workforce, and  leadership development and training programs will provide you with the tools you need to either kickstart your career or bring it to new heights.

Position Summary

The enterprise architect will lead the architecture strategy, governance and roadmap execution to facilitate the conversion of business strategies into technical direction, and achieve long term goals for technology landscape simplification and innovation. The enterprise architect’s scope of activities could include helping the organization achieve targeted business outcomes related to growing revenue, optimizing costs, mitigating risks, and improving sustainability.

Essential Functions:

• Lead and influence the enterprise architecture direction with key leaders and align the organization to meet the business and technology strategic goals.
• Advance Enterprise Architecture by providing vision, establishing annual objectives, transparency to
• progress, articulate results to key stakeholders, and leaders
• Engage business and IT stakeholders, and Build a business partnership and collaborative mindset with the team members.
• Define application rationalization strategy and guide execution roadmap.
• Analyze trends and disruptions and assess their impact on targeted business outcomes.
• Tell stories to visualize the future state and trigger long-term planning.
• Support various operating models such as project-centric and product-centric.
• Drive the evolution of the EA teams services and operating model.
• Coach and mentor other architects, product owners/managers and business stakeholders to instill architectural thinking.

Required Skills:

• Supports Formulation of Strategy and Guides Execution
  • Proactively identifies and helps the organization respond to disruptive forces. Understands the business’s economic and financial levers that are susceptible to digital transformation to effectively guide investment decisions.
  • Leads the analysis of business and operating models, market trends and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprise’s business strategy, direction, and architecture.
  • Provides perspective on the readiness of the organization to change and innovate through scenario planning techniques and supports formulation of business strategy.
  • Facilitates business and IT alignment, connecting strategy to execution, through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner, driving the organization’s digital business strategies and balancing innovation and growth.
  • Translates and guides execution of business strategy to achieve the organization’s targeted business outcomes by leading the development of an implementation roadmap for the enterprise architecture.
• Builds and Maintains Relationships
  • Builds the EA value proposition, contributing to positioning the EA practice as an internal management consultancy, offering services and skills to support the development and execution of business strategy.
  • Develops a portfolio of consulting services, designed to meet business and stakeholder needs, and delivers in an agile and time-boxed way.
  • Determines the relationship between people, processes, information, technology and other components of the enterprise operating model, and their relationships to one another and to the external environment.
  • Leads and facilitates interaction with business leaders, product managers and product owners in a business-driven conversation over the risks and implications of the product decision to the line of business, business unit and greater enterprise.
  • Leads a collaborative community of architects and works with a strategic committee to guide transformation and resolve any conflicts IT delivery and enterprise business outcomes.
• Brings Alignment Across Business and IT
  • Positions the EA practice at the intersection of business and IT. Ensures that the EA practice is designed and enabled to formulate, translate and execute business strategy.
  • Leads analysis of the business’ future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect critical gaps and opportunities and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the business towards its targeted outcomes.
  • Ensures that the EA organizational design process leads to a more efficient and effective business and IT operating model, significantly improved results (e.g., profitability, customer service, internal operations), and EA resources empowered and committed to the integration of business and IT.
• Facilitates Innovation
  • Assesses disruptive forces affecting the organization and identifies technology-enabled innovation opportunities that enables business strategy.
  • Scans emerging technologies and the business ecosystem for major disruptive technology and nontechnology trends (trendspotting) that affect business.
  • Provides practical advice and best practices to take advantage of new, or emerging, opportunities and successfully deliver the expected business outcomes.
• Plans and Manages the IT Portfolio
  • Maintains the alignment, integration, and coordination of architecture activities across different programs, projects, and products as they evolve over time.
  • Presents gap analyses and/or IT investment roadmaps that reflect the status of the existing IT landscape, namely, its ability to contribute to future-state business capabilities around ecosystems and digital platforms.
  • Leads analysis of the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
  • Develops and applies minimal viable architectures, which can include a set of standards, reference architecture patterns, principles, and guardrails, through the EA governance model, which is informed by the business strategy and corporate governance. Clarifies accountability and provides the focal point for agile, effective, and efficient decision making.
  • Facilitates a collaborative relationship across architecture community, product management and product delivery teams by providing freedom-in-a-box for decision making, with the minimal viable architecture forming the boundaries of the box.
  • Collaborates with delivery teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to leverage shared technologies, tools and processes that impact speed to value and time to market.
  • Collaborates with infrastructure teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 12 years of relevant experience, or;
• Master’s degree with 8 years of relevant experience.
• Equivalent work experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Eight or more years of experience in strategic and operations planning and/or business analysis or experience as an enterprise architecture consultant.
• Eight or more years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in a multitier environment.
• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure, platforms, SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.
• Understanding of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting, and risk management.
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture tools, related graphical models, and frameworks.
• Awareness of existing, new, and emerging technologies, and processing environments.
• Effective leadership skills with exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
• Strong consulting skills such as targeted communications, engagement management, stakeholder management and business development.
• Mastery of all components of enterprise architecture, business & IT principles and processes

Explore the Possibilities

South Jersey Industries employs a diverse range of talent – from construction contractors to environmental specialists. Regardless of the position, mentoring and networking, hands-on experience, gaining industry knowledge and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on our business and in our communities are all exciting ways that we welcome our employees at SJI. And as a company committed to creating an engaging culture built on inclusion and diversity, you’re sure to find an opportunity that makes you feel included, empowered, and ready to “bring your whole self to work” every day.

Benefits Package Overview

SJI offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees.

The SJI “Total Rewards” Benefits Package include:

• Flexible vacation, Paid Time Off, and Sick Leave package
• Comprehensive Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Short-term and Long-term Disability Insurance
• 401(k), with generous company match
• Employee Resource Groups to encourage employee engagement, nurture professional development, and foster an inclusive environment.

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

At this time, SJI is only considering applicants authorized to work in the United States currently and in the future without the need for visa sponsorship.

Compensation Range:

$139,125 - 222,600

We are committed to pay transparency and ensuring equitability compensation for all employees. The pay range for this position reflects the base salary only and does not include benefits, bonuses, or other forms of compensation that might be part of the total compensation package. The specific salary offered will be based on a candidate’s qualifications, education, and experience.