{"id":4243382,"url":"https://alion.io/job/pge-sap-chief-solution-architect-chief","title":"SAP Chief Solution Architect, Chief","company":{"id":1758874,"name":"PG&E","domain":"pge.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/pge-com","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":null},"role":"Enterprise Apps","role_family":"Enterprise Apps","seniority":"head","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Oakland, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Knowledge Graph","optional":false},{"name":"MuleSoft","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"SAP BTP","optional":false},{"name":"ABAP","optional":true},{"name":"Apex","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-11T08:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-11","last_verified_at":"2026-11-13T12:28:29Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"Requisition ID # 174151\nJob Category: Information Technology\nJob Level: Director/Chief\nBusiness Unit: Technology & Security\nWork Type: Hybrid\nJob Location: Oakland\nDepartment Overview\nTechnology & Security designs, develops, operates, and maintains PG&E’s technology, telecommunica-tions, and security capabilities that enable the company to meet its commitment to providing safe, reliable, and affordable service to customers.\nTechnology & Security partners with the business to strengthen capabilities through the development of new functionality, the implementation of modern and secure technologies, and the continuous improvement of systems and services. By reducing risk, increasing productivity, managing costs, and enabling organizational effectiveness, Technology & Security helps advance PG&E’s strategic priorities through trusted, innovative, and secure solutions.\nPosition Summary\nThe SAP Chief Technical Architect is the technology futurist and chief engineering authority for the Propel Program. This role defines what SAP capabilities PG&E should adopt, when to adopt them, how to govern them, and how to ensure the technical foundation is ready for future releases.\nThe role owns the long-term SAP technology strategy and future-state architecture across SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Technology Platform, Integration Suite, Datasphere, Business Data Cloud, SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Build, HANA Cloud, SAP AI and Joule, security, development, data, integration, observability, and platform services. It aligns SAP strategy with enterprise strategy and ensures solutions are scalable, secure, operable, cost-conscious, upgrade-ready, and consistent with Clean Core principles.\nThis position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. This Chief will be assigned to PG&E’s headquarters in Oakland, California.\nReporting\nThis SAP Chief Technical Architect reports directly to the Senior Director, IT-SAP Technology Enablement & Operations. This is an engineering executive, high-level individual contributor role that leads through technical authority, influence, standards, governance, and cross-functional coordination. The SAP Chief Technical Architect provides functional direction to architects and technical teams and acts as the escalation point and tie-breaker for high-impact technology decisions.\nJob Responsibilities\nThe SAP Chief Technical Architect addresses complex issues that span the enterprise. managing projects or initiatives that are high complexity and significant risk. The Chief works with Senior Management to guide strategies and decisions. “Propel” is the enterprise-wide technical transformation project.\nOwn Propel's 12-, 24-, and 36-month SAP technology roadmap, including target-state architecture, lifecycle transitions, sequencing, dependencies, investment needs, and retirement of legacy capabilities.\nKeep SAP strategy aligned with PG&E enterprise strategy, business priorities, security requirements, architecture standards, operating-model needs, financial objectives, and SAP product direction.\nEvaluate emerging SAP capabilities and recommend what to adopt, when to adopt it, and what not to adopt based on business value, maturity, risk, cost, security, operational readiness, and release timing.\nOwn the SAP innovation backlog and governed POC pipeline for generative and agentic AI, Joule, SAP Knowledge Graph, SAP Build Code, Event Mesh, Business Data Cloud, SAP Graph, advanced observability, and Cloud ALM. Define success criteria and scale, defer, redesign, or stop recommendations.\nOwn Propel's SAP technical governance framework and architecture decision process. Establish reference architectures, standards, reusable patterns, guardrails, decision records, architecture signoffs, and exception controls.\nDefine and govern BTP platform architecture, account and subaccount principles, environments, entitlements, connectivity, security, service adoption, lifecycle management, observability, support readiness, capacity, and cost optimization.\nGuide adoption of Integration Suite, API Management, Event Mesh, Build Work Zone, Build Process Automation, Build Code, Business Application Studio, HANA Cloud, AI Core, AI Launchpad, and Joule Foundation.\nOwn future-state integration architecture across SAP, MuleSoft, legacy platforms, cloud applications, GIS, OpenText, SailPoint, HR ecosystems, and enterprise services. Drive API-first, event-driven, reusable patterns and reduce point-to-point integrations.\nSet the direction for SAP data, reporting, and analytics, including the transition path for Datasphere and Business Data Cloud, HANA Cloud, enterprise data platforms, semantic models, data products, data quality, lineage, access, reuse, and lifecycle controls.\nOwn the roadmap for SAP Cloud ALM, monitoring, observability, test management, change control, release management, business-process and integration monitoring, technology health dashboards, and operational readiness.\nLead cross-domain readiness for Propel Release 2 and future releases, moving foundational work left across architecture, data, interfaces, environments, security, testing, monitoring, and operations.\nLead data pull-forward, including discovery, profiling, cleansing, quality assessment, mapping dependencies, mock loads, conversion rehearsals, defect closure, and readiness reviews.\nMaintain program-level technical risk and debt registers. Identify lifecycle, scalability, resiliency, security, upgrade, and supportability risks early and drive remediation or retirement roadmaps.\nAdvise Propel and PG&E Technology leadership, Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Operations, SAP, and system integrators on technology direction, investments, architecture trade-offs, innovation, release risk, and sustainability.\nProvide functional technical direction and mentoring across BTP, integration, data, development and extensibility, Basis and platform engineering, security, Cloud ALM, observability, governance, and innovation POCs.\nHold delivery partners accountable for architecture quality, standards compliance, reusable assets, documentation, knowledge transfer, operational readiness, and sustainable engineering practices.\nBackground Qualifications\nMinimum\nBA/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business or related field or equivalent experience \n12 years in IT\n10 years of solution architecture and project implementation experience.\nDemonstrated leadership across multiple SAP architecture domains, including S/4HANA, BTP, integration, data and analytics, development, security, platform engineering, application lifecycle management, and operations.\nExperience defining target-state architectures, multi-year roadmaps, transition plans, architecture standards, technology governance, and investment recommendations for large SAP transformations.\nExperience influencing architects, engineers, delivery teams, executives, vendors, and system integrators and communicating complex technology decisions, risk, cost, and trade-offs to senior leadership.\nExperience providing direction to a team of technology architects\nDesired\nMaster's degree in a related discipline.\nDeep expertise with SAP S/4HANA and SAP BTP, with experience in Integration Suite and one or more of Datasphere, Business Data Cloud, Cloud ALM, SAP Build, HANA Cloud, SAP AI Core, AI Launchpad, or Joule.\nExperience with Clean Core, side-by-side extensibility, API-first integration, event-driven architecture, semantic modeling, data products, cloud operating models, and complementary enterprise platforms.\nRelevant architecture, SAP, cloud, security, or IT service management certifications; experience in a regulated, asset-intensive, or utility environment.\nLeadership Qualities\nPG&E expects its leaders to conduct themselves with the highest ethics and integrity and to embody specific leadership qualities.\nStrategic Mindset\nSees ahead to future possibilities and translates them into breakthrough strategies.\nOperates effectively, even when things are not certain, or the way forward is not clear.\nA Leader in the Community and Industry\nEffectively builds formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.\nAnticipates and balances the needs of multiple stakeholders.\nDemonstrates Safety Leadership\nA safety champion in words and deeds with respect to both employee and public safety.\nCreating and maintaining a speak up culture free of retaliation.\nInfluences and Inspires\nUsing various- communications that convey a clear understanding of the needs of different audiences.\nManeuvering comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related dynamics.\nOptimizes Team Performance\nBuilding teams with a strong identity that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.\nCreating a climate where people are developed and motivated to do their best to help the organization.\nValues Inclusion and Respects Individual Differences\nRecognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.\nFiscally Responsible\nInterpreting and applying understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions.\nPlanning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.\nLeads Ethically and in a Compliant Manner\nSponsoring and sustaining a high integrity speak-up corporate culture which prioritizes safety, compliance, and ethics.\nBuilding on necessary level of industry, company, and subject-matter expertise, including laws and regulations.\nProvides a High Level of Customer Service\nBuilding strong customer relationships and delivering hometown, customer-centric solutions.\nCompensation\nPG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity.\nWe estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed within the reasonable compensation range of $195K to $264K. The decision will be made on a case-by-case basis. 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