Company Summary Statement : As one of the largest investor-owned utility companies in the United States, PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL), is committed to creating long-term, sustainable value for our 3.5 million customers, our shareowners and the communities we serve. Our high-performing regulated utilities — PPL Electric Utilities, Louisville Gas and Electric, Kentucky Utilities and Rhode Island Energy — provide an outstanding experience for our customers, consistently ranking among the best utilities in the nation. PPL’s companies are also addressing challenges head-on by investing in new infrastructure and technology that is creating a smarter, more reliable and resilient energy grid. We are committed to doing our part to advance a cleaner energy future and drive innovation that enables us to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while maintaining energy reliability and affordability for the customers and communities we serve. PPL is a positive force in the cities and towns where we do business, providing support for programs and organizations that empower the success of future generations by helping to build and maintain strong, diverse communities today. Overview:
NOTE: This position is Hybrid - requiring 3 days in office - at one of our locations: Allentown, PA; Louisville, KY or Providence, RI. #INDPPL #LI-Hybrid
The Director Field Technology (Gas & Electric Utility) will serve as a senior architecture leader within PPL’s Enterprise Architecture community, supporting the Field Technology domain across electric and gas operations. This role is a core member of the team responsible for driving PPL Enterprise Architecture technology standards across Field Technology Value Streams, ensuring consistent application of standards, patterns, and governance across both new and existing platforms.
The Director- Field Technology will lead the development and governance of field value stream-wide architectural strategies, ensuring alignment between business outcomes and IT execution, while adhering to PPL EA principles and standards for Field Technology Value Stream platforms. The role is accountable for maximizing value, minimizing risk, and accelerating transformation of business and digital strategy—enabling modernization, optimizing IT investments, and improving the reliability, scalability, security, and agility of technology platforms that support field operations and broader corporate objectives.
The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience defining and implementing complex enterprise architectures across key areas including Business Architecture; Data & Information Architecture and Governance; Enterprise Architecture Operating Model; EA Strategy and Planning; Enterprise IT Governance; Infrastructure and Cloud Architecture; Integration Architecture; Security Architecture; Solution and Application Architecture; and Technology Platforms.
This position reports to the Senior Director, Enterprise Technology, and partners closely with the IT Field value stream leaders, business partners, product owners, and engineering teams to ensure architectural coherence, delivery enablement, and measurable outcomes.
Responsibilities:
Develop and maintain field operations architecture roadmaps including applications, integrations, data, and infrastructure
Establish, enforce and govern reference architectures, design principles and authoritative systems of records for assets, work and crews
Assesses wider industry technology trends (e.g., artificial intelligence, robot process automation, internet of things, cloud, DevOps, microservices, event-driven architectures etc.) and best practices to identify best-in-class Technology and architecture direction
Qualifications:
Required Qualifications & Experience:
Knowledge of work management, asset management, geospatial, and mobility functional domains and platforms / architectures
Enterprise Asset Management (Hexagon, Maximo, SAP, OpenGrid), geographical and design platforms (ArcGIS, AUD), operations mobile tool landscape knowledge, middleware architecture (light-weight containerization), and integration with enterprise, customer, back office, and other systems desirable.
Architecture experience supporting field operations for electric/gas utilities (construction, maintenance, inspections, leak surveys, emergency response, outage/restoration, switching, safety/compliance).
Proven ability to design field-to-enterprise workflows spanning work orders, asset registry, location/GIS edits, inspection forms, materials, time capture, customer/service impacts, and operational reporting.
Work management patterns (e.g., PM/CS or utilities work management equivalents), work order lifecycle, functional location/equipment, notifications, confirmations, materials integration.
GIS as a critical dependency for field execution: network/asset spatial context, map services, feature edits, and field data capture.
Architecture experience with Hexagon EAM/field mobility and associated enterprise integrations, including Mobile execution patterns (task-focused UX, inspections/checklists, asset registry access, data capture) and integration of data flows back to SAP and/or the enterprise integration layer.
