GridBeats - Solutions Architect
GE VernovaResponsibilities
- Design scalable and interoperable solutions for integrated digital substations, centralized and distributed architectures, and related hardware, software, and communications interfaces.
- Develop, standardize, and maintain solution blueprints and architectures that are cyber-resilient, customer-compliant, and budget optimized.
- Create solution differentiators, technical value propositions, business cases, and total-cost-of-ownership analyses aligned with customer and market needs.
- Lead proof-of-concepts, demonstrations, workshops, pilot projects, and technical co-creation sessions.
- Support pre-sales qualification, RFQ reviews, technical specifications, proposals, tenders, and pursuit strategy.
- Build customer relationships and identify growth opportunities across relevant market segments.
- Deliver technical training and enablement for sales teams, partners, and end users.
- Provide technical inputs, diagrams, and narratives to marketing, bid, tendering, and technical assistance teams.
- Coordinate regional solution standardization and influence the regional solutions strategy with product management.
- Travel approximately 10–20% for customer meetings and engagements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, communications, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in utility grid operations, substation automation, smart grid technologies, or related domains.
- Strong experience as a Solutions Architect or Application Engineer on large-scale grid modernization projects.
- Deep understanding of digital substations, IEC standards and protocols, transmission and distribution automation, virtualization, and predictive analytics.
- Knowledge of power management systems, load shedding and islanding schemes, distribution automation, microgrids, special protection schemes, and remedial action schemes.
- Experience with GE Vernova, Grid Solutions, or similar platforms is highly desirable.
- Familiarity with cloud-based solutions, digital twins, and edge computing is preferred.
- Understanding of security frameworks and standards including NIST, NERC-CIP, NESA, and IEC 62351 is preferred.
- Relevant certifications such as GIAC or ISA/IEC 62443/27001 are preferred.
- Strong communication, presentation, stakeholder-influencing, customer-engagement, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance is provided.
- The role involves approximately 10–20% travel for customer meetings and engagements.
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About GE Vernova
GE Vernova is a purpose-built energy technology company on a mission to electrify to thrive and decarbonize the world. It is made up of three businesses -- Power, Electrification, and Wind -- with focus on accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. The world needs more energy, smarter energy. With energy demand expected to grow by more than 50% in the next 20 years, we are continuously innovating to meet the moment…like we have for the past 130 years. The Energy of Change and relentless optimism are what drive us – it’s about never giving up and seeing what’s possible so that we deliver the energy technologies the world needs right now and for generations to come. GE Vernova’s attitude and edge is embedded in its name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. Together, we have the energy to change the world.