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This position will be responsible for providing architectural and development skills and experience in the areas of estimation and efficiency, automating and encoding business practices, designing development requirements based off subject matter expert interviews, application performance tuning and support, framework evaluation, vendor & PJM ITS solution evaluation, enhancing user experience, prototyping, and innovation.\nThis position will be accountable for developing and maintaining business relationships with key internal and external stakeholders and will also leverage and support Operations and other PJM initiatives. The Sr. Lead Solution Architect will anticipate problems and synthesize appropriate strategic solutions, and provide the leadership necessary to effectively implement these initiatives.\nThis position will include individual developmental efforts, but will primarily focus on team-based endeavors. 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Communicate issues that put delivery of the project at risk, significantly increase cost, or threaten the success of other projects to the appropriate authority as soon as they are known.\nRepresent the business and engage in the development of ITS technical roadmaps and technology life cycle management (TLCM) mappings on behalf of business.\nDevelop and assist in the development of business plans and associated budgets.\nApply innovative, creative solutions to challenging technological problems; designing and engineering solutions as needed.\nFor primary applications, support integrations/api, code reviews, code releases, data migration evaluation/implementation, provide support and emergency change assessments, resolution, and mitigation strategies.\nSoftware development towards business solutions, leveraging ITS practices, as needed.\n Mentoring others in application/system understanding and support; Mentoring others in the design, development, and delivery of technical solutions 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