At PGE, our work involves dreaming about, planning for, and realizing a smarter, cleaner, more enduring Oregon neighborhood. Its core to our DNA and we haven’t stopped since we started in 1888. We energize lives, strengthen communities and drive advancements in energy that promote social, economic and environmental progress. We’re always on the lookout for people passionate about leading and being a part of teams that are advancing innovative clean energy solutions that are also affordable and accessible to all.
We're hiring for a position open to both Mid-Career and Senior level candidates. The level will be determined based on the successful applicant's qualifications, experience, and skills demonstrated during the interview process.
Cloud Solutions Architect / Senior Cloud Solutions Architect
At PGE, our work is foundational to how Oregon is powered today and into the future. We plan for, build, and operate the technology that enables a smarter, cleaner, and more resilient energy system, delivering safe, reliable, and affordable power to more than two million customers across the state.
The Cloud Solutions Architect plays a mission‑critical role in this effort, providing architectural leadership for the cloud platforms that underpin PGE’s utility operations. This role is responsible for designing, governing, and guiding secure, resilient, and cost-effective cloud architectures, with a primary focus on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and support for Microsoft Azure, ensuring these platforms can reliably support always‑on, customer‑ and field‑facing systems.
Operating at the intersection of architecture, delivery, operations, and governance, this position holds decision authority for cloud design choices that directly influence system reliability, operational resilience, cybersecurity posture, capital protection, and regulatory compliance. The decisions made in this role have tangible, real-world impact affecting outage response, field execution, safety, and the continuity of essential utility services.
As a trusted architectural leader, this position enables teams to move quickly while ensuring solutions remain secure by design, resilient by default, and operationally sound. This role strengthens the digital backbone of utility operations technology, connecting field crews, engineers, planners, and operators through mission‑critical systems that support power generation, asset and work management, grid operations, and customer outcomes where failure is not an option.
Key Job Information – Mid-Career Level
Cloud Solutions Architect 6069 Grade 7
Career Level: P3
Career Professional Requires in-depth knowledge and experience. Uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services. Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective using existing solutions. Works independently, receives minimal guidance. Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
Solution Architecture & Design
Translate business, technical, security, and operational requirements into detailed solution designs.
Produce architecture diagrams, design documentation, technical specifications, and implementation guidance.
Cloud & Platform Architecture
Apply approved cloud design patterns for networking, identity, compute, storage, monitoring, and resiliency.
Technology Evaluation & Consulting
Collaboration & Delivery Support
Partner with project managers, engineers, business analysts, and operational teams throughout project lifecycles.
Education/Experience/Certifications
Education Requires a bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, engineering management or equivalent work experience in related discipline.
Experience Typically, five or more years in solution architecture, systems engineering, infrastructure, software engineering, or related disciplines.
Certifications, Licenses and Training AWS Solution Architect, TOGAF, ITIL, ARCHIMATE certification preferred.
Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities)
Key Job Information – Senior Level
Senior Cloud Solutions Architect 6070 Grade 8
Specialist Professional Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise. Interprets internal or external business issues and recommends best practices, solves complex problems; takes a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions, works independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations. Will lead functional teams or projects/initiatives.
Enterprise Solution Architecture Leadership
Provide authoritative guidance on architecture tradeoffs involving cost, risk, performance, resiliency, and maintainability.
Cloud Architecture & Modernization
Reliability, Risk & Operational Resilience
Own architectural decisions affecting reliability, availability, recoverability, and operational risk.
Design systems that enhance observability, fault isolation, resiliency, and operational supportability.
Security, Compliance & Governance
Partner with Cyber Security, Risk, Compliance, and Audit organizations to ensure architectures satisfy regulatory and control requirements.
Strategic Consulting & Innovation
Cost Awareness & Platform Sustainability
Technical Leadership & Mentoring
Education/Experience/Certifications
Education Requires a bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, engineering management or equivalent work experience in related discipline.
Experience Typically, eight or more years in related field.
Certifications, Licenses and Training AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional or Associate). Azure Solutions Architect certification (or equivalent experience).
8+ years of experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure, or platform engineering, with deep AWS expertise.
Proven experience designing and operating production AWS environments (VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS).
Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure (Azure AD, networking, compute, storage) sufficient to support hybrid or secondary workloads.
Demonstrated experience designing enterprise-scale solutions across cloud, applications, infrastructure, integration, and security domains.
This role requires a highly experienced cloud architect with ability to analyze complex business and technical challenges to recommend secure, scalable, and industry aligned best practices. The Senior Cloud Solutions Architect operates with a high degree of autonomy, providing architectural leadership in the most complex and high impact scenarios. The role may lead cross functional teams or security focused initiatives and is expected to exercise sound judgment, technical authority, and accountability in guiding critical decisions.
Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities)
Physical and Cognitive Demands - For both Levels
Cognitive Level Substantial: Consistent use of logic or scientific thinking to define problems, collect information, establish facts and draw valid conclusions (for example, engineer, HR director, plant manager, etc.).
Ability to consistently meet attendance standards for regular, reliable, predictable, full-time attendance.
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Actual total compensation, including a performance based incentive bonus, is commensurate with experience, skills, qualifications, education, training, and internal equity.
PGE believes in rewarding dedicated performance. We provide a total rewards package that is designed to reward your contributions to the company, and, at the same time, support your well-being and professional development, both now and into the future. To find out more, click here.
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