Data Architect - Power & Utilities - Senior Manager- Consulting

Data Architect - Power & Utilities - Senior Manager – Consulting (Location OPEN)

Location:

Anywhere in Country

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help build a better working world.

You will help our clients enable better business outcomes while working in the rapidly growing Power & Utilities sector. You will have the opportunity to lead and develop your skill set to keep up with the ever‑growing demands of the modern data platform. During implementation you will solve complex analytical problems to bring data to insights and enable the use of ML and AI at scale for your clients.

This is a high growth area and a high visibility role with plenty of opportunities to enhance your skillset and build your career.

In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for the effective management and delivery of one or more processes, solutions, and projects, with a focus on quality and effective risk management. You will drive continuous process improvement and identify innovative solutions through research, analysis, and best practices. Managing professional employees or supervising team members to deliver complex technical initiatives, you will apply your depth of expertise to guide others and interpret internal/external issues to recommend quality solutions.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Applications Integration
• Cloud Computing and Cloud Computing Architecture
• Data Architecture Design and Modelling
• Data Integration and Data Quality
• AI/Agentic AI driven data operations
• Experience delivering business use cases in Transmission/Distribution/Generation/Customer
• Strong relationship management and business development skills
• Become a trusted advisor to your clients’ senior decision makers and internal EY teams
• Engage with senior business leaders to understand and shape their goals and objectives
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to define data requirements, design solutions, and implement data strategies
• Organize and lead workshops and design sessions with stakeholders
• Lead the design and implementation of modern data architectures
• Direct and mentor global data architecture and engineering teams
• Establish data governance policies and practices
• Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies

• A Bachelor’s degree in STEM
• 12+ years professional consulting experience in industry or technology consulting
• 12+ years hands‑on experience in architecting, designing, delivering or optimizing data lake solutions
• 5+ years’ experience with native cloud products and services such as Azure or GCP
• 8+ years of experience mentoring and leading teams of data architects and data engineers
• In‑depth knowledge of data architecture principles and best practices
• Demonstrated experience in leading large data engineering teams
• Hands‑on experience in designing end‑to‑end architectures and pipelines
• Proficiency in data modeling techniques and architectural design patterns
• Manage complex data analysis, migration, and integration of enterprise solutions
• Previous hands‑on coding skills in languages such as Python, Java, or Scala
• Ability to design data solutions that can scale horizontally and vertically
• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with version control systems and Dev Ops practices
• Practical understanding of data encryption, access control, and security best practices
• Experience leading Infrastructure and Security engineers and architects
• Excellent leadership, communication, and project management skills
• Data Security and Database Management
• Enterprise Data Management and Metadata Management
• Ontology Design and Systems Design

• Master’s degree in Electrical/Powers Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Data Science, Machine Learning or commensurate experience
• Experience working at Big 4 or a major utility
• Experience with cloud data platforms like Databricks
• Experience in leading and…