Enterprise Architect - NetworkMidAmerican Energy Company
Job Summary
Position Title: Enterprise Architect - Network
Location: Richmond, VA, United States
Description:
The Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the organization's enterprise technology strategy and architecture. This role ensures that technology investments, standards, and solution designs align with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and long-term organizational strategy.
Operating with enterprise-wide scope, the Enterprise Architect provides strategic architectural leadership across business and IT domains. The role translates business priorities into clear architectural direction, standards, and roadmaps that guide technology decisions across portfolios and delivery teams.
This position plays a critical role in reducing enterprise technology risk, controlling cost and complexity, improving reuse, and increasing the quality and consistency of technology decisions. The Enterprise Architect serves as a trusted advisor to senior business and IT leaders, provides guidance and mentoring to other senior technical staff, and operates at a level equivalent to other director level roles within the organization, while remaining an individual contributor.
Responsibilities:
Define and evolve the enterprise technology vision, strategy, and multiyear architecture roadmap across assigned business and technology domains.
Establish and maintain current state, transition state, and future state architectures spanning applications, data, infrastructure, and integration platforms.
Translate business strategies and priorities into actionable architectural guidance that informs technology planning and execution.
Advise senior business and IT leadership on technology trends, risks, opportunities, and architectural tradeoffs.
Architecture Standards & Reference Architectures
Develop, publish, and maintain enterprise architecture principles, standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
Define approved, conditionally approved (exception based), and prohibited technologies and architectural patterns.
Communicate architectural direction and decisions clearly to both technical and nontechnical audiences, including senior leadership.
Mentor and guide solution architects and senior technical staff, helping raise architectural maturity and enterprise thinking across the organization.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or related field; or an equivalent work experience. (Typically four years of additional related, progressive work experience would be needed for candidates applying for this position who do not possess a bachelor's degree. A minimum of two years additional directly related technical experience is required.)
A minimum of seven years of extensive progressive IT experience with broad exposure to applications, data, infrastructure, and integration technologies.
Deep expertise in core enterprise networking domains, including routing, switching, firewalling, VPNs, and loadbalancing services.
Strong architectural knowledge of Cisco networking platforms, including ACI, SDWAN, Nexus, Catalyst, and enterprise wireless solutions.
Experience guiding enterprise adoption of nextgeneration security and application delivery technologies, such as Palo Alto firewalls and F5 load balancers.
Advanced understanding of dynamic routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP) and their application in highly available, multisite architectures.
Experience establishing standards and reference architectures for network automation and infrastructureascode, including Ansible, Terraform, Python, or purposebuilt automation platforms.
Demonstrated experience architecting and governing hybrid cloud networking, including integrations with AWS, Azure, and/or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Familiarity with zerotrust networking concepts, overlay networks, and softwaredefined networking (SDN) from an enterprise architecture perspective.
Experience defining enterprise approaches to network observability, monitoring, and alerting, including architectural use of tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
Ability to translate business, reliability, and security requirements into scalable, resilient, and defensible network architecture standards.
Strong communication skills, with experience advising senior stakeholders and participating in formal architecture governance processes.
Experience ideating or influencing the use of AI, analytics, or automation within network architecture to improve operational efficiency, visibility, or service quality.
Preference given to experience supporting utilities, energy, or other regulated or criticalinfrastructure environments, including reliability, availability, and compliancedriven architecture considerations. or criticalinfrastructure environments, including reliability, availability, and compliancedriven architecture considerations.
Core Competencies
• Enterprise level strategic thinking
• Technology and business alignment
• Architectural governance and decision making
• Portfolio, lifecycle, and investment awareness
• Executive level communication and influence
• Pragmatic evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies
About US:
MidAmerican Energy Company, a Midwest utility, provides regulated electric and natural gas service to more than 1.6 million customers in Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota. The company owns and operates a portfolio of power-generating assets, approximately 61% of which is wind generation.
About the Team:
MidAmerican Energy Company is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or religious creed, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status (except as required by law), gender (including gender identity and expression), sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, familial or parental status, marital status or any other category protected by applicable local, state or U.S. federal law. Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of the position, with or without an accommodation.
JOB INFO
Job Identification: 10004800
Job Category: Information Technology
Posting Date: 2026-04-14
Apply Before: 2026-05-09T23:54:00+00:00
Job Schedule: Full time
Job Shift: Day
Locations: 10700 Energy Way, Glen Allen, VA, 23060, US
Business: MidAmerican Energy Company
Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
Position Title: Enterprise Architect - Network
Location: Richmond, VA, United States
Description:
The Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the organization's enterprise technology strategy and architecture. This role ensures that technology investments, standards, and solution designs align with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and long-term organizational strategy.
Operating with enterprise-wide scope, the Enterprise Architect provides strategic architectural leadership across business and IT domains. The role translates business priorities into clear architectural direction, standards, and roadmaps that guide technology decisions across portfolios and delivery teams.
This position plays a critical role in reducing enterprise technology risk, controlling cost and complexity, improving reuse, and increasing the quality and consistency of technology decisions. The Enterprise Architect serves as a trusted advisor to senior business and IT leaders, provides guidance and mentoring to other senior technical staff, and operates at a level equivalent to other director level roles within the organization, while remaining an individual contributor.
Responsibilities:
Define and evolve the enterprise technology vision, strategy, and multiyear architecture roadmap across assigned business and technology domains.
Establish and maintain current state, transition state, and future state architectures spanning applications, data, infrastructure, and integration platforms.
Translate business strategies and priorities into actionable architectural guidance that informs technology planning and execution.
Advise senior business and IT leadership on technology trends, risks, opportunities, and architectural tradeoffs.
Architecture Standards & Reference Architectures
Develop, publish, and maintain enterprise architecture principles, standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
Define approved, conditionally approved (exception based), and prohibited technologies and architectural patterns.
Communicate architectural direction and decisions clearly to both technical and nontechnical audiences, including senior leadership.
Mentor and guide solution architects and senior technical staff, helping raise architectural maturity and enterprise thinking across the organization.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or related field; or an equivalent work experience. (Typically four years of additional related, progressive work experience would be needed for candidates applying for this position who do not possess a bachelor's degree. A minimum of two years additional directly related technical experience is required.)
A minimum of seven years of extensive progressive IT experience with broad exposure to applications, data, infrastructure, and integration technologies.
Deep expertise in core enterprise networking domains, including routing, switching, firewalling, VPNs, and loadbalancing services.
Strong architectural knowledge of Cisco networking platforms, including ACI, SDWAN, Nexus, Catalyst, and enterprise wireless solutions.
Experience guiding enterprise adoption of nextgeneration security and application delivery technologies, such as Palo Alto firewalls and F5 load balancers.
Advanced understanding of dynamic routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP) and their application in highly available, multisite architectures.
Experience establishing standards and reference architectures for network automation and infrastructureascode, including Ansible, Terraform, Python, or purposebuilt automation platforms.
Demonstrated experience architecting and governing hybrid cloud networking, including integrations with AWS, Azure, and/or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Familiarity with zerotrust networking concepts, overlay networks, and softwaredefined networking (SDN) from an enterprise architecture perspective.
Experience defining enterprise approaches to network observability, monitoring, and alerting, including architectural use of tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
Ability to translate business, reliability, and security requirements into scalable, resilient, and defensible network architecture standards.
Strong communication skills, with experience advising senior stakeholders and participating in formal architecture governance processes.
Experience ideating or influencing the use of AI, analytics, or automation within network architecture to improve operational efficiency, visibility, or service quality.
Preference given to experience supporting utilities, energy, or other regulated or criticalinfrastructure environments, including reliability, availability, and compliancedriven architecture considerations. or criticalinfrastructure environments, including reliability, availability, and compliancedriven architecture considerations.
Core Competencies
• Enterprise level strategic thinking
• Technology and business alignment
• Architectural governance and decision making
• Portfolio, lifecycle, and investment awareness
• Executive level communication and influence
• Pragmatic evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies
About US:
MidAmerican Energy Company, a Midwest utility, provides regulated electric and natural gas service to more than 1.6 million customers in Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota. The company owns and operates a portfolio of power-generating assets, approximately 61% of which is wind generation.
About the Team:
MidAmerican Energy Company is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or religious creed, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status (except as required by law), gender (including gender identity and expression), sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, familial or parental status, marital status or any other category protected by applicable local, state or U.S. federal law. Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of the position, with or without an accommodation.
JOB INFO
Job Identification: 10004800
Job Category: Information Technology
Posting Date: 2026-04-14
Apply Before: 2026-05-09T23:54:00+00:00
Job Schedule: Full time
Job Shift: Day
Locations: 10700 Energy Way, Glen Allen, VA, 23060, US
Business: MidAmerican Energy Company
Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
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