Enterprise Architect
Alliant Energy

Bring YOUR energy to Alliant Energy!

At Alliant Energy, our purpose is to serve customers and build stronger communities. We are passionate about powering beyond the market challenges of today, while powering what's next in energy. When our employees say "I am energy," it means they take pride in the work we do when disaster strikes, as well as all the days in between. We reward our highly hardworking and dedicated teams and give them the support they need to ensure their safety, wellness and financial security for themselves and their families.

If you enjoy challenges, have strong communication skills and are passionate about the work you do we invite you to consider Alliant Energy.

What sets us apart?

• Alliant Energy offers a full compensation package. Benefits include Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Health and Day Care Savings Accounts, Paid Vacation, 401K, Employer Cash Contribution, Long and Short-Term Disability, Tuition reimbursement, and Adoption assistance.
  
• Year after year, Alliant Energy is recognized by major publications and foundations as a top employer and leader in the areas of equity and sustainability. This includes Newsweek's list of Most Responsible Companies, Forbes list of Best Midsize Employers, a perfect Corporate Equality Index Score as a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality and being named to the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index.
  
• Our employees make a difference through their work and personal activities. In 2021, employees, retirees and our charitable foundation collectively contributed $11.5 million and volunteered over 75,000 hours.
  
  

Alliant Energy has an outstanding opportunity for an Enterprise Architect to join the team in Madison, WI or Cedar Rapids, IA! This position will report out of the Madison, WI or Cedar Rapids, IA office. In this role you will ensure that all software and hardware platforms and solutions are planned and designed to be implemented in accordance with information technology strategies, plans and cybersecurity standards. Maintain congruency with computing and network architecture, improving the use of current applications and systems while minimizing the amount of custom code, and address considerations of performance as part of solution design, testing and implementation.

Responsibilities:

• Shapes and owns the product road map and vision and communicates the story to key partners and the rest of the team.
  
• Identifies minimum viable products to deliver business value
  
• Acts as a voice of the customer for their team - frequently meeting with partners and customers to understand their need.
  
• Increases Return on Investment by create/identify and prioritize the product features by business value. Also include total TCO
  
• Understands how to use technology to solve customer problems or build new value frontiers
  
• Drives sprint and release plans together with Scrum Master.
  
• Participates in Scrum events, including sprint planning, story grooming sessions, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
  
• Responsible for great customer experience in all product releases.
  
• Conducts product planning sessions to breakdown initiatives into clear user stories that are derived from customer needs and understood by the team.
  
• Leads the lifecycle of product or service including maintenance, patching, and new version introductions.
  
• Leads and takes part in Technology planning processes to align priorities across IT Services
  
• Focuses on outcomes / Objectives and Key Results (OKR's) to deliver cost effective, customer driven technology solutions.
  
• Develops long-term strategic relationships with customer and industry leaders.
  
• Responsible to business leaders for development of solutions, scope development, prioritization, and delivery of systems and functions. Jointly develops plans and solutions in a timely and cost-effective manner and ensuring the most effective use of product group resources.
  
• Provides leadership and direction for the communication and implementation of new practices to increase organizational performance and success within Information Technology.
  
• Provides direction to teams and ensures solutions and development options meet customer needs, are appropriately prioritized, and are delivered in a timely and cost-effective manner.
  
• Responsible for portfolio consolidation, architecture alignment and reducing technical debt.
  

Required Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in IT application development space across multiple hardware/software platforms to include; 3 years of experience of Application or Enterprise Architecture.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering.
  
• Ability to evaluate and implement information technology architectures.
  
• Proven knowledge of design modeling techniques.
  
• Demonstrable experience and understanding business requirements and translating them into integrated technology solutions, using object-oriented design patterns, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and reusable components.
  
• Experience of scripting languages (eg. python).
  
• Experience of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
  
• Hands-on experience of two or more development languages (eg Java, .NET, UX).
  
• Modern integration technologies and API's experience.
  
• Data structures, data model, cloud/on-prem architecture, secure coding practices (as applicable).
  
• Modern DevOps, ETL, and Data Analysis methodologies/tools/techniques experience.
  
• Vendor management and vendor products experience.
  
• Defining technology strategy, communicating to Sr. leaders and managing business partner expectations experience.
  
• Other required skills: Security Literacy, Infrastructure/Cloud Literacy, Integration Literacy, Data Literacy.
  

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Alliant Energy is committed to providing an inclusive work environment for all and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer where an applicant's qualifications are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other basis prohibited by law.

All candidates selected for employment with Alliant Energy will be required to successfully complete a drug screen and background check.

Disclaimer:
The above information on this description has been crafted to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not crafted to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Alliant Energy and subsidiaries is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity in the workplace. Applicants in need of a reasonable accommodation for any part of the hiring process, please email talent@alliantenergy.com.

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