Director, Enterprise, Architecture & Governance - (26-IT-601006-086)

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At DC Water, we provide more than 700,000 District of Columbia residents and 24.6 million annual visitors with essential water, wastewater, and stormwater services. DC Water also provides wholesale wastewater treatment services for 1.8 million people in Montgomery and Prince George's counties in Maryland, and Fairfax and Loudoun counties in Virginia. We aspire to be known for superior service, ingenuity, and stewardship to advance the health and well-being of our diverse workforce and communities. To achieve this vision, we commit to our shared mission every day—exceeding expectations by providing high quality water services in a safe, environmentally friendly, and efficient manner.

The Director, Enterprise, Architecture & Governance leads the strategy, modernization, and governance of DC Water’s enterprise technology environment. This executive role establishes architecture standards, drives a unified platform strategy, and ensures technology investments align with organizational priorities and operational objectives. Serving as the bridge between strategy and execution, the Director oversees enterprise architecture and technology governance, including REQ-0 and REQ-1 reviews. The role leads platform rationalization across Oracle, SAP, IBM Maximo, ArcGIS, and operational technologies, ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, and compliant. As Chair of the Enterprise Architecture Committee, the Director serves as the technology decision authority, aligning investments with enterprise standards, critical infrastructure resilience, and the IT Strategy and Roadmap.

• Establishes and evolves multi-year enterprise architecture vision, roadmap, and standards aligned with DC Water's strategic objectives (Blueprint 2.0), regulatory requirements (EPA, NERC CIP, Clean Water Act), and operational resilience goals.

• Chairs Enterprise Architecture Committee; owns approval process and exception handling for all technologies being deployed enterprise-wide.

• Leads platform rationalization strategy; reviews and defines core architecture around identified solutions (Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP), SAP (CCS/AMR), IBM Maximo, ArcGIS, and legacy systems under a unified ecosystem roadmap with clearly identified migration milestones.

• Establishes and enforces IT governance frameworks, and serves as architecture authority for technology investments critical to infrastructure resilience.

• Develops enterprise architecture standards, patterns, and reference architectures that embed security, NERC CIP/EPA/NIST compliance, and operational technology (SCADA/ICS) requirements.

• Develops and implements an enterprise architecture repository for standard templates, solutions, and approaches for use by the greater organization.

• Partners with Operations, Engineering, and Finance leadership to translate business requirements into actionable technical architecture and capital investment priorities.

• Designs technology consolidation roadmap addressing transition from legacy, monolithic systems to cloud-native, modular, resilient architectures; demonstrates ROI through rationalization.

• Establishes enterprise data governance strategy and data architecture to support consolidation planning, prevent data silos, and enable business intelligence and predictive analytics.

• Deploys a data integration layer with unified schema mapping, quality assurance frameworks, and lineage tracking to eliminate data silos and establish authoritative reference datasets across the enterprise.

• Provides technology leadership for critical infrastructure modernization, including SCADA/ICS security, resilience, network segmentation, and enterprise integration.

• Collaborates with the Vice-President of Security, Governance & Compliance to embed cybersecurity, data protection, and regulatory compliance into all architecture decisions.

• Mentors and develops architects and technical leads; establishes architecture centers of excellence to sustain long-term modernization programs.

• Supports Blue Drop's technology requirements, ensuring architecture enables commercial service delivery and governance clarity.

• Performs other duties and projects as assigned at the discretion of the Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice-President.

   

Supervisory Responsibilities: Directs a group of consultants and employees to ensure the enterprise architecture program and objectives are met.

Key Working Relationships: Interacts with Senior and Executive Level Staff members and employees throughout the Authority and representatives from other utilities and other government organizations and agencies.

The qualifications listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and ability necessary for an individual to perform each essential responsibility satisfactorily. Reasonable amounts of training are provided.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS and/or Microsoft Azure) including migration patterns, hybrid architectures, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code.

Knowledge of cybersecurity architecture, critical infrastructure security standards (NERC CIP, NIST, ISO & SOC2 frameworks), and secure systems design principles.

Ability to manage stakeholder communication across technical and non-technical audiences; demonstrated ability to influence across organizational functions without direct authority.

Demonstrated expertise in enterprise technology architecture spanning ERP/CIS platforms, asset and operational technology (OT) systems, hybrid cloud infrastructure, integration and data management solutions, cybersecurity and regulatory compliance frameworks, and enterprise architecture governance tools.

Understanding of utility operations, regulated industry requirements, public sector finance and procurement, and IT financial management.

Enterprise-scale technology partnership negotiation and lifecycle management experience.

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

Knowledge of water/wastewater operations, asset management, treatment processes, or utility business processes.

*The work environment characteristics described in the physical requirements section of the required skills & qualifications table are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential responsibilities. 

At DC Water, our people make us an industry leader. Join a group of thinkers, innovators, and problem solvers focused on protecting life’s most precious resource in the nation’s capital.

• Take pride in your work. We provide an essential service and do work that matters. A career at DC Water is an exciting opportunity to help improve the environment and make a lasting difference for the community.

• Connect to a strong culture. Everything we do is grounded in our shared values—accountability, trust, teamwork, customer focus, safety, and well-being.

• Be your true self. We are an inclusive organization that embraces diversity, and we recognize and celebrate employees’ individuality and unique contributions.

• Build your skills and career path. We are committed to developing a future-ready workforce by helping our employees develop skills for the jobs of tomorrow.

We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V.

We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination against “qualified individuals with disabilities.”

If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to

perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please

email complianceada@dcwater.com.