Senior IT Architect (Integration)

Xcel Energy (NASDAQ: XEL) is a leading energy provider and Fortune 500 company, dedicated to serving millions of electricity and natural gas customers across eight states: Minnesota, Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico and Texas. We make energy work better for our customers, helping them thrive every day. That means always raising the bar - delivering better service and providing more reliable, resilient, and sustainable energy.

Xcel Energy is a place where you’ll have opportunities to grow, expand your skills, and help lead the clean energy transition. We offer meaningful rewards, recognition, and support to help you build your career and make an impact - both on the job and beyond. Most importantly, it means you’ll be joining a company that knows employees are the driving force behind its success and is committed to helping you be your best.

Xcel Energy supports a hybrid work model to enable collaboration and flexibility. Many roles are expected to work onsite three days per week (Tuesday–Thursday); however, work location expectations vary based on role, team, and business needs.

Position Summary

This Senior Integration Architect provides senior-level technical leadership for connecting AI capabilities with enterprise applications and trusted data. The role combines direct participation in complex project architecture designs with responsibility for helping set enterprise AI and integration direction. It defines secure, scalable, reusable reference architectures that move project delivery toward the architectural north star.

The architect owns end-to-end architectural decisions and integration approaches, evaluates solution alternatives and trade-offs, and guides teams from concept through implementation. Working across Enterprise Architecture, engineering, security, data governance, and business teams, the architect establishes patterns and standards for APIs, events, orchestration, and governed data access that connect AI solutions to enterprise systems.

The role translates project-specific designs into reusable enterprise patterns and implementation guidance. The focus is secure enterprise AI integration, generative AI solution architecture, and reusable integration capabilities. The architect defines transition roadmaps, validates critical design decisions, and governs alignment between delivery and long-term enterprise direction.

Modernization of the data estate enables trusted, governed data consumption for AI and connected business solutions. Success requires independent technical judgment, influence across organizational boundaries, mentoring, and clear communication of architectural risks and trade-offs.

**Essential Responsibilities

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• Architectural Operations: Review and approve projects and work efforts to ensure that they are compliant with architectural standards. Track and manage exceptions to standards. Continuously improve operational processes. Assess, report, and make recommendations to eliminate operational risk related to technology or architecture.
• Technical Expertise: Provide consultation and direction to delivery and operational teams on optimal architecture for respective solutions. Maintain state-of-the-art expertise of enterprise architecture technologies, frameworks, and industry innovations.
• Leadership: Lead work cross-organizationally through coaching and feedback, and through significant interactions and influence with leaders. Govern work efforts to ensure alignment with reference architecture, IT strategy and policy. Collaborate cross-organizationally to influence alignment on and adoption of enterprise architecture standards.
• Planning and Strategy: Participate in creation and renewal of an overarching IT strategy. Develop and enforce reference architecture standards that are aligned with IT strategies and principles. Contribute to architecture road maps and provide i...

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