Operational Technology Solutions Architect - Oahu

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Company: hawaiianel

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Posting End Date:
This position will remain open until filled. Early applications are highly encouraged.

BRIEF POSTING

DESCRIPTION:

The P EQ OPERATIONAL TECHNOLOGY Department of the P OPERATIONAL TECHNOLOGY Division at Hawaiian Electric Company has 1 Management vacancy available. (Role: Professional)

JOB FUNCTION:

The OT System Architect is a senior technical leader responsible for planning and implementing the Company’s OT Energy management system (EMS) architecture. This architecture encompasses the Energy Management System (EMS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Outage Management System (OMS), Generation Dispatch, application software, and enterprise IT platforms that enable monitoring, control, and automation of real-time grid operations. The goal is to ensure safe, reliable, and resilient operations while minimizing implementation and lifecycle costs.

This role directly supports real-time grid operations and is critical to ensuring safe, reliable, and resilient energy delivery. The architect provides company-wide technical leadership, guiding strategic decisions, project planning, and integration of the OT ecosystem that supports EMS operations.

Leads initiatives to improve system resilience (including loss-of-control scenarios), technology direction, acquisition planning, migration strategies, data integrity, documentation, cybersecurity, and standardization across the EMS ecosystem. This includes close collaboration with telecommunications and cybersecurity architects to support safe and reliable grid operations.

As a grid modernization subject matter expert, the solutions architect enhances the Company’s grid monitoring and control capabilities in alignment with strategic goals, ensuring contingency plans for loss of monitoring/control are embedded in system design.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Company-Wide Impact:
  Develops and oversees architecture for core OT systems including Energy Management System (EMS), SCADA, Outage Management System (OMS), Generation Dispatch, and supporting IT platforms. These systems are foundational to grid monitoring, control, and automation.
  • Define and maintain system interfaces and integration requirements with OMS, SCADA, generation dispatch, and IT systems.
  • Provide support to develop, maintain, update the procedures and guidelines for the loss of real-time monitoring and control of the EMS. Work with stakeholders and subject matter experts to identify single points of failure in the OT system architecture or with process/people.
  • Provide technical input in the development and updates to metrics to capture operational risk using knowledge of the EMS ecosystem architecture and dependencies.
• Strategic Leadership:
  Develops processes and programs to enhance operational performance and reliability. Provides technical direction across departments, influencing long-term technology planning, acquisition strategies, and modernization initiatives aligned with corporate goals (reliable/resilient/efficient). From these inputs, short-term (1-3 year) and long-term (5+ year) plans for the OT infrastructure are generated, which may include deployment of new technology, reconfiguration of existing technology, and decommissioning of old technology as appropriate.
  
  The strategy/plan is based on the CIO and operating units’ technological direction and is an end-to-end view that includes hardware, software, operating systems, application systems, platforms, networking, interoperability, contingency arrangements, and directions for acquisition of technology resources. Advises client and project teams on how to integrate with and leverage existing IT/OT architecture.
• Provides high level strategic business consultation including organizational alignment, business process development.
• System Integration & Resilience:
  Ensures seamless integration and clear boundaries between EMS and adjacent systems. Leads efforts to enhance system resilience, including contingency planning for loss of automation or control.
• Cybersecurity & Compliance:
  Collaborates with cybersecurity and telecommunications architects to embed security, standardization, and documentation across the OT ecosystem.
• Modernization & Innovation:
  Serves as subject matter expert for OT modernization, driving improvements in grid visibility, control capabilities, and incident response readiness.
• Provides analysis of both…