{"id":1348472,"url":"https://alion.io/job/dominion-energy-solutions-architect-data-platform-engineering","title":"Solutions Architect - Data Platform Engineering","company":{"id":1771170,"name":"Dominion Energy","domain":"dominionenergy.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/dominionenergy","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":null},"role":"Solutions","role_family":"Solutions","seniority":"staff","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Richmond, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":128000,"max_usd":245000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":474},"experience_years_min":12,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"dbt","optional":false},{"name":"Informatica","optional":false},{"name":"Oracle","optional":false},{"name":"Snowflake","optional":false},{"name":"Talend","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-18T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-18","last_verified_at":"2026-10-01T17:51:26Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":14,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":14},"description":"Dominion Energy is committed to providing reliable, affordable, and increasingly clean energy that powers our customers every day. If you want to work for a purpose-driven company that values safety and collaboration, we’re looking for you. You won’t just find a job here; you’ll find your career. Review the position below and apply today.\nWe offer a hybrid work schedule (one week in the office, one week of teleworking) to accommodate the need for flexibility.\nMilitary service members and veterans with ranks from E5-E9, W1-CW5, or O3-O6, plus appropriate equivalent combination of education and years of experience as outlined below will be considered for this opportunity.\nAt this time, Dominion Energy cannot transfer or sponsor a work visa or employment authorization for this position.\nThis position does not offer relocation assistance.\nJob Summary\nWe are seeking a Solution Architect, Data Platforms to lead the architecture, modernization, governance, security, and evolution of our enterprise data platform ecosystem.\nThis 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.\nThis 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.\nKey Responsibilities\nData Platform Strategy & Modernization\nDefine and execute architecture roadmaps for enterprise data platforms by closely partnering with enterprise architecture team.\nLead modernization initiatives that simplify legacy environments and improve platform agility.\nEstablish future-state architectures for cloud, hybrid, and virtualized data ecosystems.\nEvaluate emerging technologies and recommend strategic platform investments.\nDrive technical debt reduction initiatives and improve long-term maintainability.\nData Products & Analytics Enablement\nDesign architecture patterns that accelerate delivery of trusted data products.\nDefine reusable ingestion, transformation, virtualization, and consumption frameworks.\nPartner with data engineering and business teams to reduce time-to-value for analytics initiatives.\nEnable scalable self-service analytics and reporting capabilities.\nEstablish architecture standards that support AI, advanced analytics, and enterprise reporting.\nReliability, Security & Governance\nArchitect resilient, highly available, and observable data platforms.\nDefine enterprise standards for RBAC, ABAC, encryption, masking, and data protection.\nEstablish platform monitoring, observability, operational health, and performance frameworks.\nPartner with cybersecurity, compliance, risk, and governance teams to ensure alignment with enterprise requirements.\nDesign governance controls that improve trust, consistency, and compliance across data assets.\nArchitecture Governance & Standards\nLead architecture reviews and design assessments.\nCreate and maintain reference architectures, engineering standards, and reusable patterns.\nInfluence technology decisions across multiple teams and initiatives.\nProvide architectural guidance during major project planning and implementation.\nMaintain architecture decision records and technology standards.\nTechnical Leadership Expectations\nServe as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and delivery teams.\nInfluence architecture decisions across multiple organizations.\nMentor architects, engineers, and technical leads.\nDrive consistency across platforms, delivery teams, and business domains.\nLead complex architecture discussions and technical trade-off analyses.\nBuild consensus among stakeholders with competing priorities.\nAdvocate for operational excellence, governance, security, and engineering best practices.\nRequired Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Experience\nThe knowledge, skills, abilities and experiences that are required for entry into this job include the following:\n12+ years of experience in data, analytics, data engineering, or platform architecture.\n5+ years serving in architecture leadership roles.\nDemonstrated experience designing enterprise-scale data platforms.\nProven record leading cross-functional modernization and transformation initiatives.\nExperience influencing strategic technology decisions without direct authority.\nTechnical Skills\nRequired expertise in the following technologies, or experience with similar tools and platforms:\nSnowflake (Must have)\nOracle Exadata\nDenodo\nTalend/dbt\nMicrosoft Azure\nInformatica Data Catalog\nData Governance frameworks\nData Observability platforms like Monte Carlo and operational monitoring practices\nData Security architecture\nRBAC\nABAC\nEncryption\nData masking\nCI/CD and DevOps practices\nDemonstrated expertise in:\nData warehouse architecture\nData integration architecture\nData virtualization\nCloud data platforms\nMetadata management\nEnterprise architecture patterns\nAPI and data integration design\nPlatform reliability and resilience\nLeadership Skills\nStrong executive communication skills.\nAbility to influence senior stakeholders.\nExceptional architectural reasoning and decision-making.\nStrong facilitation and consensus-building skills.\nAbility to translate business objectives into architectural solutions.\nPreferred Qualifications\nMonte Carlo experience.\nInformatica Data Catalog experience.\nExperience supporting regulated industries.\nExperience with enterprise-scale data governance programs.\nFamiliarity with AI and advanced analytics architectures.\nExperience implementing attribute-based access control frameworks.\nExperience establishing enterprise data platform operating models.\nEnterprise Architecture certification or equivalent architecture credentials.\n Education Requirements\nEducation Level:\nDegree or an equivalent combination of education and demonstrated related experience may be accepted in lieu of preferred level of education:\nBachelor\nPreferred Discipline(s): Business, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics\nOther disciplines may be substituted for the preferred discipline(s) listed above.\nLicenses, Certifications, or Quals Description\nWorking Conditions\nOffice Work Environment 76 -100%\nTravel Up to 25%\nOther Working Conditions\nTest Description\nNo Testing Requirements\nExport Control\nCertain positions at Dominion Energy may involve access to information and technology subject to export controls under U.S. law. Compliance with these export controls may result in Dominion Energy limiting its consideration of certain applicants.\nWhat You'll Get\nExpected Hiring Base Salary Range:\n$116,300 - $151100\nThe expected hiring base salary range is the range we anticipate hiring within for this position. The actual salary offered may vary based on factors such as the selected candidate’s qualifications, skills, experience, and work location. This is not intended to represent the full salary range for the position or limit future compensation growth.\nAt Dominion Energy, we offer excellent plans and programs for employees. Employees are rewarded with a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package which includes: health, dental, and vision benefits with coverage for families and domestic partners, vacation, retirement plans including 401k contributions and matches, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, bonus eligibility, sick leave, and disability insurance. To learn more about our benefits, click here: dombenefits.com.\nDominion Energy is an equal opportunity employer. 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