Job Description Summary
As a GridOS Solution Architect in Technical Sales, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor to our utility customers, partners, and internal teams. You will lead customer-facing architecture conversations, shape design decisions, and ensure our solutions deliver measurable business outcomes. This role bridges technology, systems engineering, cloud platforms, and electric grid domain expertise to accelerate customer adoption of the GridOS platform.
In this position, you will serve as a key ally in enabling customers’ envisioned use cases for how they will leverage data to optimize day-to-day grid operations and the service they provide to their communities. You’ll be expected to deeply listen to customer business needs, translate their utility-domain requirements into tangible capabilities that GridOS Data Fabric, GridOS Connect can deliver, and build strong customer confidence in the DevOps and DataOps resilience that the platform provides. A critical part of this role is guiding utilities as they upgrade or extend their legacy systems, helping them evolve from traditional, siloed architectures to modern, interoperable, data-centric platforms powered by GridOS.
You will collaborate across product, engineering, services, cybersecurity, commercial, and pre-sales teams to design scalable, secure, and interoperable solutions built on GE Vernova’s next-generation GridOS architecture.
Job Description
In This Role, You Will
- Lead and coordinate technical, architectural, and business discussions with customers to define and validate GridOS solution architectures
- Translate customer objectives into cloud-ready, modular, and secure architectural designs aligned to the GridOS platform strategy
- Analyze and develop architectural requirements at the domain and platform level, working closely with portfolio and product specialists
- Whiteboard and communicate high-level solution architectures that reflect the practical realities of enterprise utility software, including secure network zones, multi-site deployments, data-flow directionality, and data-access protocols ranging from modern APIs to legacy mechanisms such as FTP for file-based exchanges
- Partner with the centralized pre-sales engagement team to design, maintain, and optimize on-prem and cloud-based demo environments
- Apply systems engineering principles to ensure end-to-end integration, quality, and lifecycle management of GridOS deployments
- Guide customers through modernization initiatives, integrations with legacy OT/IT systems, and adoption of cloud-native practices
Technical Expertise
- Ability to consult customers on aligning business outcomes with technical solution architectures
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, containers, microservices, APIs, CI/CD)
- Working knowledge of Kotlin, Helm, Apache Arrow, SQL, and modern cloud-native tooling
- Understanding of cybersecurity regulations and standards such as NERC CIP, Zero Trust principles, and ISO frameworks
- Progress toward or completion of AWS or Azure Solution Architect certifications
- Proven experience presenting complex technical solutions to both technical audiences and executive stakeholders (CIO/CTO/CISO)
- Ability to lead early-stage customer engagements, architecture workshops, and technical discovery sessions
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent professional experience
- 8+ years in solution architecture, systems engineering, technical consulting, or pre-sales roles for enterprise or cloud platforms
Desired Characteristics
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and influencing skills across all organizational levels
- Hands-on experience designing or implementing cloud-native, distributed, or high-availability systems
- Experience in customer-facing technical roles, such as pre-sales engineering, consulting, or solution architecture
- Familiarity with utility technologies such as EMS, DMS, ADMS, DERMS, OMS, SCADA, or other OT/IT grid management systems
- Knowledge of Kafka, Flink, TimescaleDB, or data streaming and time-series architectures
- Certification in Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), cloud security (CCSP), or infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK)
- Background in model-based systems engineering (MBSE) or complex system integration
- Understanding of lean, agile, DevSecOps, and continuous delivery practices
- Comfortable with lightweight development and scripting approaches
- Experience with serverless/cloud-native automation, such as Azure Functions or similar.
What You’ll Gain
- Opportunity to shape next-generation grid software supporting the energy transition
- Direct engagement with utility customers to drive measurable business outcomes
- Collaboration across engineering, product, services, and pre-sales teams
- Competitive pay and benefits in line with GE Vernova software roles
- Participation in a mission-driven business accelerating grid modernization
Additional Information
GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
#LI-Remote - This is a remote position
Application Deadline: June 30, 2026
For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $128,400.00 and $213,900.00. The Company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set.
Bonus eligibility: sales incentive.
This posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on June 25, 2026.
Available benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off.
GE Vernova Inc. or its affiliates (collectively or individually, “GE Vernova”) sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs GE Vernova reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a GE Vernova welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.
