Puget Sound Energy is looking to grow our community with top talented individuals like you! With our rapidly growing, award winning energy efficiency programs, our pathway to an exciting and innovative future is now. PSE'sIT Application Solutionsteam is looking for qualified candidates to fill anopenIT Cloud Architectposition! Specific details regarding the work arrangements for this position will be discussed in further detail during the interview process. Job Description Demonstrates Technical Cloud Architectural knowledge with industry standards and architecture best practices. Employs a system engineering approach to design complete and complex frameworks and systems, with a focus on enabling business capabilities within the Customer IT Project Portfolio leveraging SaaS and other Cloud native solutions. Partners with Cloud Services team to align on production management of new capabilities enablement through project portfolio investment. Upholds the safety compliance standards inherent in PSE's operating and/or field procedures related to work responsibilities. Promotes and supports a culture of total safety. Demonstrates commitment to conduct business honestly, ethically and consistent with our core values and Code of Conduct. Ensures duties are performed in accordance with all regulatory compliance obligations. Job Responsibilities * Owns, maintains, and executes the Cloud Strategy, with a focus on enabling customer-facing technologies and solutions and migration of workload to AWS Managed Cloud. * Enables the customer vision through technical and product thought leadership, leveraging a cloud-first approach to support customer-facing initiatives such as website enhancements, billing systems, call center technologies, and product development. * Researches, analyzes, designs, and proposes solutions that are appropriate for the business and technology strategies, are in alignment with IT's reference architecture, and that capitalize on the principles of technology rationalization and reuse to ensure efficient usage of PSE's IT dollars. * Collaborates with Business Teams and Solution Delivery Technology teams on development of Technology Solution Strategies and Roadmaps for customer-facing initiatives. * Develops technology policies, standards, frameworks, and guiding principles for customer-facing technologies. * Partners with IT Security, Procurement, and Business teams to evaluate and select new technologies, ensuring alignment with security and cloud policies, and strategic migration towards Cloud. * Supports project delivery across portfolio by taking point on Technology Feasibility Assessments, participating in design reviews, and acting as technical lead on major projects related to customer-facing technologies. * Develops strategies, frameworks, and approaches for enterprise-wide systems to align with and influence business needs. * Analyzes marketplace, industry, company, technology trends and best practices, vendor products and services, etc. to inform and influence business and IT direction. * Drives definition of system and infrastructure specifications, interfaces, working parameters for hardware and/or software performance, function and compatibility. * Conceives system interfaces and business application prototypes. Identifies, analyzes and resolves system design weaknesses. BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COLLABORATION * Works closely with senior business leadership to understand their challenges and business objectives, and to identify opportunities for new technologies to support their goals. * Develops and maintains strong relationships with senior business leaders, including regular meetings and feedback sessions. * Gathers feedback from business leaders on the effectiveness of current technologies and solutions and uses this feedback to inform future technology strategies and roadmaps. * Collaborates with busine