Domain Architect - Field Technology

Company Summary Statement

As one of the largest investor-owned utility companies in the United States, PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL), is committed to creating long-term, sustainable value for our 3.5 million customers, our shareowners and the communities we serve. Our high-performing regulated utilities - PPL Electric Utilities, Louisville Gas and Electric, Kentucky Utilities and Rhode Island Energy - provide an outstanding experience for our customers, consistently ranking among the best utilities in the nation. PPL's companies are also addressing challenges head-on by investing in new infrastructure and technology that is creating a smarter, more reliable and resilient energy grid. We are committed to doing our part to advance a cleaner energy future and drive innovation that enables us to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while maintaining energy reliability and affordability for the customers and communities we serve. PPL is a positive force in the cities and towns where we do business, providing support for programs and organizations that empower the success of future generations by helping to build and maintain strong, diverse communities today.

Overview

NOTE: This position is Hybrid - requiring 3 days in office - at one of our locations: Allentown, PA; Louisville, KY or Providence, RI.

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The Domain Architect - Field Technology (Gas & Electric Utility) will serve as a senior architecture leader within PPL's Enterprise Architecture community, supporting the Field Technology domain across electric and gas operations. This role is a core member of the team responsible for driving PPL Enterprise Architecture technology standards across Field Technology Value Streams, ensuring consistent application of standards, patterns, and governance across both new and existing platforms.

The Domain Architect will lead the development and governance of field value stream-wide architectural strategies, ensuring alignment between business outcomes and IT execution, while adhering to PPL EA principles and standards for Field Technology Value Stream platforms. The role is accountable for maximizing value, minimizing risk, and accelerating transformation of business and digital strategy-enabling modernization, optimizing IT investments, and improving the reliability, scalability, security, and agility of technology platforms that support field operations and broader corporate objectives.

The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience defining and implementing complex enterprise architectures across key areas including Business Architecture; Data & Information Architecture and Governance; Enterprise Architecture Operating Model; EA Strategy and Planning; Enterprise IT Governance; Infrastructure and Cloud Architecture; Integration Architecture; Security Architecture; Solution and Application Architecture; and Technology Platforms.

This position reports to the Senior Director, Enterprise Technology, and partners closely with the IT Field value stream leader, business partners, product owners, and engineering teams to ensure architectural coherence, delivery enablement, and measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

Develop Point of Views on technology, industry and market trends, and determine their potential impact on the Field Technology Value Stream

Drive innovation by aligning the mindset towards moving from technology driven to business outcome driven architecture

Collaborate with the IT Portfolio Enterprise Architect and other Value Stream Domain Architects on the creation and/or evolution of the EA function or program.

Collaborate with IT and Business leaders to develop digital vision and build the digital strategy for Field Technology Value Stream

Analyze the current Field Technology environment to detect critical capability gaps and recommend solutions for improvement. Promote configuration and parameterization over customization

Develop and maintain field operations architecture roadmaps including applications, integrations, data, and infrastructure

Enable transformation and delivery of key field operations systems, including:

EAM / Work Management (e.g., Hexagon EAM, OpenGrid)

GIS - ESRI ArcGIS

OMS / ADMS

Mobile workforce management

Scheduling and dispatch

Lead the identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers to derive enterprise business, information, technical and solution (BITS) architecture requirements

Consult with application/infrastructure development projects to fit systems to architecture, and identify when it is necessary to modify the technical architecture to accommodate project needs

Understand, advocate and support the enterprise's information technology strategies

Responsible for the development and ongoing support of key architectural solution components

Drive the continual development of the architectural runway for the Field Technology Value Stream

Manages and is accountable for driving the development of solution for Field Technology Value Stream architecture issues

Architecture Governance

Contribute to the Field Architecture community and help to define and promote architecture principles, frameworks and governance processes.

Define standards for solution architecture, integration, and data management across platforms.

Establish, enforce and govern reference architectures, design principles and authoritative systems of records for assets, work and crews

Review solution designs to ensure alignment with enterprise and domain architecture

Identify and manage cross value stream integration complexity and dependencies

Solutions Architecture:

Assesses wider industry technology trends (e.g., artificial intelligence, robot process automation, internet of things, cloud, DevOps, microservices, event-driven architectures etc.) and best practices to identify best-in-class Technology and architecture direction

Serve as the architecture authority for field operations capabilities, including:

Work and asset management

Field mobility

Outage and emergency response

Vegetation management and compliance

Partner closely with Field Ops leadership to translate operational needs into scalable architectural solutions.

Additional responsibilities include:

Contribution towards the improvement of the Architecture review process

Develop and drive architectural technology standards within their specific discipline

Governance of architecture standards

Technology strategy

Works with various Field Technology teams to champion the adoption of patterns, platforms, and tools to support the usage and conformity of solution architecture

Collaborate with cybersecurity and compliance teams to align architectures with security and compliance requirements

Risk & Compliance

Ensure Field Technology Value Stream complies with cybersecurity, data privacy, and industry regulations

Design architecture that is resilient, secure, and supports disaster recovery strategies.

Stakeholder Management

Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders in IT, operations, and business.

Work with project managers, solution architects, and delivery teams to ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications & Experience:

Bachelor's degree.

Masters degree highly preferred.

10-Year background in delivering scalable, compliant, Enterprise Architecture.

Knowledge of work management, asset management, geospatial, and mobility functional domains and platforms / architectures

Enterprise Asset Management (Hexagon, Maximo, SAP, OpenGrid), geographical and design platforms (ArcGIS, AUD), operations mobile tool landscape knowledge, middleware architecture (light-weight containerization), and integration with enterprise, customer, back office, and other systems desirable.

Proven experience with cloud platforms, hybrid architecture.

Utilities Enterprise Architecture and field operations experience/knowledge a plus

Skills & Competencies:

Strategic thinking and business acumen.

Deep understanding of enterprise integration patterns and field technologies.

Excellent knowledge of utility industry processes and regulatory requirements.

Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.

Familiarity with modern architecture trends.

Core Skills

SAFe Agile

Application Design & Architecture

Big Data Technologies

AI (AI/ML, GenAI, Agentic)

Cloud Fundamentals

Data & Information Security

DevOps Practices

Event Driven & API based Architectures

Roadmap Creation and Product Vision

Security Fundamentals

Vendor Landscape

Application Architecture

N-Tier

Microservices

Event-driven

Domain Driven Design

Collaboration Tools

Agile work management tooling expertise

Architecture experience supporting

field operations

for electric/gas utilities (construction, maintenance, inspections, leak surveys, emergency response, outage/restoration, switching, safety/compliance).

Proven ability to design

field-to-enterprise

workflows spanning work orders, asset registry, location/GIS edits, inspection forms, materials, time capture, customer/service impacts, and operational reporting.

Hands-on architecture experience with

EAM in utilities

in a transmission and distribution (T&D) context, including:

Work management patterns (e.g., PM/CS or utilities work management equivalents), work order lifecycle, functional location/equipment, notifications, confirmations, materials integration.

Designing EAM integrations with ERP (finance, supply chain, human experience management)

Architecture experience with

Esri ArcGIS

in a utility context (ArcGIS Enterprise / ArcGIS Online patterns as applicable), including:

GIS as a critical dependency for field execution: network/asset spatial context, map services, feature edits, and field data capture.

Designing GIS integrations with SAP (work order initiation, asset/location synchronization, and bi-directional status updates).

Architecture experience with

Hexagon EAM/field mobility

and associated enterprise integrations, including Mobile execution patterns (task-focused UX, inspections/checklists, asset registry access, data capture) and integration of data flows back to SAP and/or the enterprise integration layer.

Experience architecting solutions involving

OpenGrid

(and/or comparable utility field/workforce platforms)

Experience supporting

multi-OpCo company utility models

Integrating field tooling with enterprise systems to "bring the most critical information forward" for field teams and modernize field management workflows.

Ability to work across vendor ecosystems where OpenGrid is one of multiple platforms in the landscape.

Required Qualifications & Experience:

Bachelor's degree.

Masters degree highly preferred.

10-Year background in delivering scalable, compliant, Enterprise Architecture.

Knowledge of work management, asset management, geospatial, and mobility functional domains and platforms / architectures

Enterprise Asset Management (Hexagon, Maximo, SAP, OpenGrid), geographical and design platforms (ArcGIS, AUD), operations mobile tool landscape knowledge, middleware architecture (light-weight containerization), and integration with enterprise, customer, back office, and other systems desirable.

Proven experience with cloud platforms, hybrid architecture.

Utilities Enterprise Architecture and field operations experience/knowledge a plus

Skills & Competencies:

Strategic thinking and business acumen.

Deep understanding of enterprise integration patterns and field technologies.

Excellent knowledge of utility industry processes and regulatory requirements.

Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.

Familiarity with modern architecture trends.

Core Skills

SAFe Agile

Application Design & Architecture

Big Data Technologies

AI (AI/ML, GenAI, Agentic)

Cloud Fundamentals

Data & Information Security

DevOps Practices

Event Driven & API based Architectures

Roadmap Creation and Product Vision

Security Fundamentals

Vendor Landscape

Application Architecture

N-Tier

Microservices

Event-driven

Domain Driven Design

Collaboration Tools

Agile work management tooling expertise

Architecture experience supporting

field operations

for electric/gas utilities (construction, maintenance, inspections, leak surveys, emergency response, outage/restoration, switching, safety/compliance).

Proven ability to design

field-to-enterprise

workflows spanning work orders, asset registry, location/GIS edits, inspection forms, materials, time capture, customer/service impacts, and operational reporting.

Hands-on architecture experience with

EAM in utilities

in a transmission and distribution (T&D) context, including:

Work management patterns (e.g., PM/CS or utilities work management equivalents), work order lifecycle, functional location/equipment, notifications, confirmations, materials integration.

Designing EAM integrations with ERP (finance, supply chain, human experience management)

Architecture experience with

Esri ArcGIS

in a utility context (ArcGIS Enterprise / ArcGIS Online patterns as applicable), including:

GIS as a critical dependency for field execution: network/asset spatial context, map services, feature edits, and field data capture.

Designing GIS integrations with SAP (work order initiation, asset/location synchronization, and bi-directional status updates).

Architecture experience with

Hexagon EAM/field mobility

and associated enterprise integrations, including Mobile execution patterns (task-focused UX, inspections/checklists, asset registry access, data capture) and integration of data flows back to SAP and/or the enterprise integration layer.

Experience architecting solutions involving

OpenGrid

(and/or comparable utility field/workforce platforms)

Experience supporting

multi-OpCo company utility models

Integrating field tooling with enterprise systems to "bring the most critical information forward" for field teams and modernize field management workflows.

Ability to work across vendor ecosystems where OpenGrid is one of multiple platforms in the landscape.

Strategic Leadership

Develop Point of Views on technology, industry and market trends, and determine their potential impact on the Field Technology Value Stream

Drive innovation by aligning the mindset towards moving from technology driven to business outcome driven architecture

Collaborate with the IT Portfolio Enterprise Architect and other Value Stream Domain Architects on the creation and/or evolution of the EA function or program.

Collaborate with IT and Business leaders to develop digital vision and build the digital strategy for Field Technology Value Stream

Analyze the current Field Technology environment to detect critical capability gaps and recommend solutions for improvement. Promote configuration and parameterization over customization

Develop and maintain field operations architecture roadmaps including applications, integrations, data, and infrastructure

Enable transformation and delivery of key field operations systems, including:

EAM / Work Management (e.g., Hexagon EAM, OpenGrid)

GIS - ESRI ArcGIS

OMS / ADMS

Mobile workforce management

Scheduling and dispatch

Lead the identification and analysis of enterprise business drivers to derive enterprise business, information, technical and solution (BITS) architecture requirements

Consult with application/infrastructure development projects to fit systems to architecture, and identify when it is necessary to modify the technical architecture to accommodate project needs

Understand, advocate and support the enterprise's information technology strategies

Responsible for the development and ongoing support of key architectural solution components

Drive the continual development of the architectural runway for the Field Technology Value Stream

Manages and is accountable for driving the development of solution for Field Technology Value Stream architecture issues

Architecture Governance

Contribute to the Field Architecture community and help to define and promote architecture principles, frameworks and governance processes.

Define standards for solution architecture, integration, and data management across platforms.

Establish, enforce and govern reference architectures, design principles and authoritative systems of records for assets, work and crews

Review solution designs to ensure alignment with enterprise and domain architecture

Identify and manage cross value stream integration complexity and dependencies

Solutions Architecture:

Assesses wider industry technology trends (e.g., artificial intelligence, robot process automation, internet of things, cloud, DevOps, microservices, event-driven architectures etc.) and best practices to identify best-in-class Technology and architecture direction

Serve as the architecture authority for field operations capabilities, including:

Work and asset management

Field mobility

Outage and emergency response

Vegetation management and compliance

Partner closely with Field Ops leadership to translate operational needs into scalable architectural solutions.

Additional responsibilities include:

Contribution towards the improvement of the Architecture review process

Develop and drive architectural technology standards within their specific discipline

Governance of architecture standards

Technology strategy

Works with various Field Technology teams to champion the adoption of patterns, platforms, and tools to support the usage and conformity of solution architecture

Collaborate with cybersecurity and compliance teams to align architectures with security and compliance requirements

Risk & Compliance

Ensure Field Technology Value Stream complies with cybersecurity, data privacy, and industry regulations

Design architecture that is resilient, secure, and supports disaster recovery strategies.

Stakeholder Management

Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders in IT, operations, and business.

Work with project managers, solution architects, and delivery teams to ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture.

Remote Work

The company reserves the right to determine if this position will be assigned to work on-site, remotely, or a combination of both. Assigned work location may change. In the case of remote work, physical presence in the office/on-site may be required to engage in face-to-face interaction and coordination of work among direct reports and co-workers.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Our company is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identify, genetic information, disability status, or any other protected characteristic.