Job Description Summary
Systems Engineering is the heartbeat of innovation—a high-stakes discipline where bold strategy meets technical precision. It transforms complex customer needs into high-performance realities, driving the entire lifecycle from initial concept to operational excellence.
As a Sr Systems Architect in this space, you aren't just managing processes; you are wielding the evaluative judgment and operational acumen to shape budgets, steer cross-functional teams, and influence the trajectory of the entire business. It is where vision, design, and impact converge to deliver world-class solutions.
Job Description
Essential Responsibilities
Develop and govern integrated power generation system architectures from generator terminals through transmission interconnection facilities, ensuring alignment with customer performance, reliability, and operational objectives.
Lead technical definition and integration of "inside-the-fence-line" power generation assets including gas turbines, generators, generator step-up transformers (GSUs), isolated phase bus systems, HV/LV electrical gear, substations, protection and control systems, STATCOMs, BESS, and auxiliary plant systems.
Establish system requirements, architecture baselines, interface definitions, and design standards for complex power generation and industrial electrification projects.
Partner with Systems Engineering teams to define solution validation strategies, requirements traceability, verification plans, Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT), Site Acceptance Tests (SAT), commissioning milestones, and performance validation criteria.
Lead equipment coordination and system integration activities between multiple engineering disciplines to ensure maximum uptime, operational resilience, maintainability, and system performance.
Support and review power system studies including load flow, short circuit, grounding, protection coordination, transient stability, harmonics, and arc flash analyses to validate architecture performance.
Translate customer requirements related to availability, reliability, SLA commitments, MTBF targets, and operational performance into electrical system architecture and design requirements.
Lead technical risk identification, interface management, and integration planning activities throughout proposal development, engineering, construction, commissioning, and operational phases.
Serve as the primary technical coordinator across GE Vernova business units including Consulting Services, Gas Power, Grid Solutions, Electrification, Product Management, Engineering, Commercial Operations, Services, and Digital organizations.
Support business development activities by evaluating technical scope, defining solution architectures, assessing risks, and supporting customer presentations and proposal development activities.
Develop and standardize reference architectures for repeatable customer applications including data centers, industrial facilities, microgrids, hybrid generation plants, and utility-scale power generation campuses.
Lead customer-facing technical workshops and architecture reviews while providing executive-level recommendations regarding system design, reliability, and integration strategies.
Support requirements validation and commissioning activities to ensure all system performance objectives and customer acceptance criteria are successfully achieved.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship across engineering teams while advancing systems engineering best practices throughout the organization.
Coordinate cross-functional efforts to perform requirements testing, system validation, and integrated solution reviews while driving technical alignment across internal and external stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related engineering discipline.
12+ years of professional…