IT Senior Manager - Innovation/ Product Engineering

$187,200 - $280,800/Yr

Southern California Edison - Rosemead, CA

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - Rosemead, CA

Utilities

About the position

As an IT Senior Manager - Innovation/Product Engineering at Southern California Edison (SCE), you will lead the IT Innovation/Product Engineering Team to develop and implement advanced technology solutions that align with the company's strategy and business needs. This role involves managing a product development engineering team using agile methods, establishing engineering standards, collaborating with multi-functional teams, and continuously researching new technologies to drive innovation and sustainable change. Your leadership will be crucial in mentoring team members and ensuring successful project outcomes that contribute to cleaner energy solutions.

Responsibilities

• Communicates architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies, and gains interpersonal dedication from IT and business leaders for enterprise-level architecture, infrastructure, data, software, search, technology initiatives.
• Assigns architecture resources, directs the architectural work of key initiatives, architectural governance, architectural vision, roadmap, standards and guidelines, patterns, frameworks, and selection of appropriate tools.
• Collaborates and pairs with other product team members (infrastructure, UX, engineering, and product management) to lead their team members in designing secure, reliable, scalable software solutions.
• Coordinates architecture resources to establish reference architectures and design patterns, as well as delivery and support of the key reusable technology platforms and services to increase the speed to value of solution design and implementation.
• Proactively reviews the system characteristics of all aspects of conceptual and logical architecture designs.
• Leads team member in the development of portfolio architectures, population of enterprise application tools and data to help with application rationalization and technical portfolio and enterprise architecture roadmaps.
• Serves as an escalation point for difficult architecture and trade-off analysis situation during solution analysis.
• Manages resource capacity, demand, architecture metrics for their team to support staffing decisions and resource allocation.
• Works with internal stakeholders, vendors, and the open-source community to help identify needed software improvements in products.
• Leads learning activities around modern architecture and design practices.

Requirements

• Five or more years of experience supervising a team of direct reports and/or project management.
• Experience in information technology architecture.

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Five or more years of experience in IT management, product management, or a related field, with a consistent record of delivering innovative technology solutions.
• Five or more years of experience in IT software development in architecture and/or engineering role.
• One or more years of experience with Artificial Intelligence and/or Generative AI technologies, application, large language models and domains in engineering products/solutions.
• Experience and strong skills in leadership and team management, and ability to inspire and mentor team members.
• Experience consulting clients and leading strategic conversations.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to address complex business issues from strategy to execution.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence collaborators at all levels.
• A commitment to continuous learning and staying abreast of the latest technological advancements.

Benefits

• Hybrid work mode with the option to work remotely on certain days.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Commitment to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.