Principal Solutions Architect - Analytics Center of Excellence

Location:

Tempe, AZ, US

Date: Mar 26, 2026

Requisition ID: 19873

Join us in building a better future for Arizona!

SRP is one of the largest public power and water utilities in the U.S. providing electricity to approximately one million customers in the greater metropolitan Phoenix area. Since its founding in 1903, SRP has fostered a culture of stewardship and customer service consistently ranking as an industry leader in customer service according to J.D. Power and named one of Arizona's best employers by Forbes. SRP continues to adapt to its changing business environment by seeking innovative ways to reimagine utility service and the provision of critical resources essential to the life and economy of Arizona.

Why Work at SRP

At SRP, we foster an inclusive work environment and believe everyone should have a fair chance to work, regardless of who they are. That’s why we value teams with diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds to help SRP deliver on its mission of providing reliable, affordable and sustainable water and power.

SRP's success is rooted in our employees' happiness, health, and safety. That's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to meet the needs of our employees and enhance their well-being. In addition to competitive pay and performance incentives, eligible employees can take advantage of the following benefits:

Pension Plan (at no cost to the employee)
401(k) plan with employer matching
Available your first day: Medical, vision, dental, and life insurance
Over 200+ hours of PTO (includes vacation days, holidays, floating holidays, and sick leave)
Parental leave (up to 4 weeks) and adoption assistance
Wellness programs (including access to a recreation and fitness facility)
Short and long-term disability plans
Tuition assistance for both undergraduate and graduate programs
10 Employee Resource Groups for career development, community service, and networking

Summary

The Principal Solutions Architect provides senior architectural leadership for analytics platforms and services within the Analytics Center of Excellence. The role serves as the principal technical authority for Snowflake, Power BI, and Dataiku and for the analytics services built on top of these platforms.

The position ensures platforms and services remain secure, reliable, cost efficient, and aligned with SRP data and analytics strategy. The role operates as a trusted advisor across ACE and the Enterprise Extended Alliance and influences high impact initiatives and long-term platform and service direction. This is a principal level individual contributor role with no direct reports.

What You'll Do

Own architectural oversight for ACE analytics platforms and services, including Snowflake, Power BI, and Dataiku.
Define, uphold, and evolve platform and service standards, reference architectures, and design patterns.
Ensure alignment with governance, security, privacy, and enterprise IT policies.
Review and validate solution designs for scalability, reliability, performance, and cost.
Provide architectural leadership for nearly all high impact analytics and data initiatives supported by ACE.
Partner with Data Engineering, Business Intelligence, and Data Science leaders to align platforms and services with business needs.
Influence platform and service roadmaps and guide adoption of new capabilities within existing technologies.
Support enterprise teams outside of ACE through the Extended Alliance by providing architectural guidance.
Act as an escalation point for complex architectural and platform decisions.

Education

A bachelor’s degree in a related field from an accredited institution is required, plus an additional 18 graduate-level credits in the area of specialty preferred.

Experience

10 years professional experiences in discipline related to Information Systems.

The successful candidate will possess the following strengths:

• Strong technical leadership skills with the ability to guide, influence, and negotiate architectural decisions across teams, consultants, and contractors without direct authority.

• Ability to lead complex, cross functional initiatives with competing objectives and deadlines.

• Strong analytical, problem solving, and technical troubleshooting skills with attention to detail.

• Well organized with the ability to manage and prioritize multiple concurrent efforts.

• Ability to prepare and present clear, professional architectural guidance, recommendations, and materials for technical and executive audiences.

• Strong oral and written communication skills, including disciplined documentation practices.

Additional Requirements and Qualifications

Requires in depth working knowledge of and experience with multiple technical areas across a large-scale enterprise environment, including:

• Cloud data platforms and data warehousing architectures.

• Analytics and business intelligence platforms and semantic modeling.

• Advanced analytics and data science enablement platforms.

• Data integration, orchestration, and transformation patterns.

• Platform security, privacy, and access control models.

• Cost management and performance optimization in cloud analytics environments.

• Enterprise data governance, standards, and policy enforcement.

Hybrid Workplace

SRP currently offers a hybrid workplace, which allows employees whose jobs can be performed remotely, and who have sufficient technical capability, to telework up to three days per week. Although teleworking is available, all employees must live and work in Arizona.

Drug/Alcohol Policy Statement

To promote the safety and well-being of our employees, customers, and the communities we serve, SRP is committed to maintaining a drug/alcohol free work environment. Although marijuana may now be legal in Arizona, except as otherwise specified under Arizona law, SRP considers it to be an illegal drug for the purpose of our drug/alcohol policy because marijuana remains illegal at the federal level. Any candidate found to be impaired during the hiring process or who has the presence of an illegal drug or unauthorized substance in their system during the pre-employment drug/alcohol test may be disqualified from further consideration in the hiring process.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Salt River Project (SRP) is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military status, or any other protected status under applicable federal, state or local law.

Work Authorization

All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
Currently, SRP does not sponsor H1B visas, OPT, or other employment-related visa's.