IT Senior Manager - Innovation/ Product Engineering

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become an IT Senior Manager - Innovation/ Product Engineering at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job as the Senior Manager in our IT Innovation Engineering Team, you will be a key leader responsible for driving the development and implementation of innovative technological solutions that align with our company strategy and OU business needs.  Join our team and leverage your transformative thinking, technical expertise, and leadership skills to design emerging technology solutions, guide the exciting projects, mentor dedicated team members, and drive successful outcomes.

Key Focus of Role 

• Lead the IT Innovation/Product Engineering Team to develop, implement, and maintain advanced technology solutions.
• Manage a product development engineering team using agile methods to engineer solutions in sprint increments to deliver Proof of Concepts(POC) to Minimal Viable Product (MVP) launch.
• Establish engineering standards and partner w/ architecture to identify and catalogue technology patterns for reuse and help to shape innovation roadmap identifying opportunities to explore and technology gaps to close.
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams such as advance analytics, UX, process and product to design product solutions to meet business criteria in the most cost-effective way.
• Research new technologies continuously to drive innovation and sustainable change.
• Taking action to ensure everyone has a voice, inviting opinion from all team members.
• Anticipate collaborator needs and helping to shape the future of the business and moving easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.

 As an IT Senior Manager - Innovation/ Product Engineering, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

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
• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Minimum Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

Additional Information

• This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days.  Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California.  Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.

• Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!
• Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
• The primary work location for this position is Rosemead

• Position will require up to 10% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory. 
• This position has been identified as a NERC/CIP impacted position - Prior to being hired, the successful candidate must pass a Personnel Risk Assessment (PRA) or Background Investigation.  Once hired, the candidate must complete specified training prior to gaining un-escorted access to assigned work location and performing necessary job duties.
• Relocation does not apply to this position.

About Southern California Edison

The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.

At SCE, we celebrate our differences. We are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer and will not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other protected status.

We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at (833) 343-0727.