Project Architect

Project Architect

Location: Denver, CO

Onsite Flexibility: Hybrid — Onsite Tuesday–Thursday; remote other days

Contract Details

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 11 months
• Pay Rate: $110.00–$130.00 / Hour (USD)
• Shift / Schedule: Core hours: 9 AM – 4 PM CST; 40-hour work week
• Travel Requirements: Some travel required (quarterly)
• Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Job Summary

This organization is undertaking a major CIS modernization initiative, transitioning from a 25-year-old legacy billing system to SAP S/4 HANA for Utilities (IS-U) and Salesforce Energy and Utilities Cloud for Call Center and CRM capabilities. This is a multi-year (4–5), high-visibility program. The CIS Solution Architect will design and govern end-to-end solutions across SAP, Salesforce, and other enterprise systems, ensuring alignment with Architecture Tenets and SAP Clean Core principles. The role expects a solid architecture background and methodology including multiple experiences solutioning across complex hybrid cloud and on-premise landscapes and the application of strong architectural principles. Experience with SAP S/4 functionality and technologies, integration via SAP BTP, SAP Data platforms (BDC), Salesforce, and AWS are preferred.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain end-to-end solution architecture for key financial, payment and collections end-to-end business processes across enterprise systems including SAP S/4, Salesforce and supporting systems
• Minimize customizations and enforce Clean Core principles
• Identify new technology capabilities or patterns that might be required and align with architecture tenets and guidelines
• Govern standards and best practices, minimizing customization
• Lead design and implementation ensuring development aligns with proposed architecture
• Collaborate with functional and technical teams
• Ensure resiliency, scalability, security, and performance
• Conduct architecture reviews and present at architecture review boards
• Validate implementation against design

Required Skills

Technical Skills

• Integration and Data architecture skills (SAP BTP, AWS, IBM ACE preferred)
• Cloud / Hybrid Architecture solutioning (AWS preferred)
• Solutioning end-to-end architecture across complex ecosystems
• Architecture solutioning including drafting options and providing a recommendation
• Strong understanding of security, scalability, observability, resiliency and performance design

Non-Technical Skills

• Clear articulation of complex technical concepts to leaders, stakeholder management and technical teams
• Strong business acumen to align architectural decisions with strategic goals
• Independent, accountable, and collaborative
• Comfortable working across teams and vendors

Preferred Skills

• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, TOGAF, LeanIX
• Utility industry experience a plus

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or equivalent experience (preferred)
• SAP Certified Solution Architect or Technology Professional (preferred)

Required Experience

• 10 years of Architecture experience
• 2 years of SAP S/4 HANA Utilities (IS-U)
• 2 years of SAP BTP and Integration Suite
• 4 years of AWS experience
• Expertise in enterprise level solution architecture across multiple systems including hybrid scenarios
• Strong architectural governance experience and solutioning skills

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
• 401k Retirement Fund

Important Notes

• Visa: Contractors requiring sponsorship are not preferred
• Corp-to-Corp: Generally not allowed; exceptions may apply for niche roles
• Conversion: Candidate should be open to future FTE conversion; conversion is limited to operating states and sponsorship not required (preferred)
• Preferred locations: Minneapolis, MN or Denver, CO

About the Client

This major U.S. electric and natural gas utility serves more than 3.7 million electric customers and 2.1 million natural gas customers across eight states — Minnesota, Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico, and Texas. As one of the nation's leading energy providers, the organization employs electrical and civil engineers, grid operations specialists, environmental scientists, IT and cybersecurity professionals, and finance and regulatory analysts, with approximately one in ten employees being veterans and 50 veterans holding senior leadership positions. Actively investing in the clean energy transition, this organization is expanding renewable generation and grid modernization across its service territory, offering professionals in engineering, IT, and operations meaningful work that supports infrastructure millions of people depend on every day.

About GTT

GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking, financial services, technology, life sciences, biotech, utilities, and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Job Number: 26-12787 Industry: Software Engineering

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