We are seeking a Solution Architect, Data Platforms to lead the architecture, modernization, governance, security, and evolution of our enterprise data platform ecosystem.
This role serves as a technical leader who defines strategy, establishes engineering standards, guides delivery teams, and influences technology direction across the organization's data landscape. The successful candidate will partner with enterprise architecture , business leaders, data engineers, platform teams, cybersecurity, and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable, secure, resilient, and governed data capabilities that enable enterprise analytics, data products, AI, and operational decision-making.
This is a highly influential individual contributor role with broad architectural accountability. The role requires strong technical leadership, the ability to influence, and a record of driving enterprise-scale transformation.
Key Responsibilities
Data Platform Strategy & Modernization
- Define and execute architecture roadmaps for enterprise data platforms by closely partnering with enterprise architecture team.
- Lead modernization initiatives that simplify legacy environments and improve platform agility.
- Establish future-state architectures for cloud, hybrid, and virtualized data ecosystems.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend strategic platform investments.
- Drive technical debt reduction initiatives and improve long-term maintainability.
Data Products & Analytics Enablement
- Design architecture patterns that accelerate delivery of trusted data products.
- Define reusable ingestion, transformation, virtualization, and consumption frameworks.
- Partner with data engineering and business teams to reduce time-to-value for analytics initiatives.
- Enable scalable self-service analytics and reporting capabilities.
- Establish architecture standards that support AI, advanced analytics, and enterprise reporting.
Reliability, Security & Governance
- Architect resilient, highly available, and observable data platforms.
- Define enterprise standards for RBAC, ABAC, encryption, masking, and data protection.
- Establish platform monitoring, observability, operational health, and performance frameworks.
- Partner with cybersecurity, compliance, risk, and governance teams to ensure alignment with enterprise requirements.
- Design governance controls that improve trust, consistency, and compliance across data assets.
Architecture Governance & Standards
- Lead architecture reviews and design assessments.
- Create and maintain reference architectures, engineering standards, and reusable patterns.
- Influence technology decisions across multiple teams and initiatives.
- Provide architectural guidance during major project planning and implementation.
- Maintain architecture decision records and technology standards.
Technical Leadership Expectations
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and delivery teams.
- Influence architecture decisions across multiple organizations.
- Mentor architects, engineers, and technical leads.
- Drive consistency across platforms, delivery teams, and business domains.
- Lead complex architecture discussions and technical trade-off analyses.
- Build consensus among stakeholders with competing priorities.
- Advocate for operational excellence, governance, security, and engineering best practices.
Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Experience
The knowledge, skills, abilities and experiences that are required for entry into this job include the following:
- 12+ years of experience in data, analytics, data engineering, or platform architecture.
- 5+ years serving in architecture leadership roles.
- Demonstrated experience designing enterprise-scale data platforms.
- Proven record leading cross-functional modernization and transformation initiatives.
- Experience influencing strategic technology decisions without direct authority.
Dominion Energy
120 Tredegar St
Richmond
Virginia United States
www.DominionEnergy.com
