Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Technical Lead – Principal

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: OaklandCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $155,000 - $210,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Define and drive the architecture strategy across multiple data products and platforms, ensuring alignment to enterprise standards and future state roadmaps.
  • Provide technical feasibility assessments for complex, cross functional features, and guide teams with deep platform and domain expertise.
  • Lead solution design for large cloud native data products, including data acquisition, storage, lineage, modeling, and platform integration patterns.
  • Establish and evolve architectural patterns, nonfunctional requirements, and tech-debt strategies across product portfolios.
  • Drive adoption of new technologies and champion enterprise-scale modernization efforts.
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership to engineering teams, modeling best-in-class engineering practices.
  • Oversee large-scale implementations, prototypes, and POCs - ensuring they are scalable, secure, and enterprise ready.
  • Optimize complex system performance, troubleshoot advanced platform issues, and guide incident resolution strategies.
  • Partner with security, cloud, and infrastructure teams to design and deliver highly reliable and compliant solutions.
  • Influence senior leaders across IT and Lines of Business, shaping long-term technology direction and investment.
  • Communicate architectural vision to executives, technical staff, and business partners in clear, compelling terms.
  • Mentor and develop architects, senior engineers, and technical leads - elevating the overall technical maturity of the organization.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems or related field of study, or equivalent experience
  • 7 years of related work experience
  • 5 + years of Technical Lead or Architecture experience delivering enterprise-scale systems in an Agile environment.
  • Extensive experience designing and delivering solution architectures for complex data platforms and cloud-native systems (AWS preferred).
  • Proven track record leading architecture for multi-team or portfolio level technology initiatives.
  • Broad technical background across cloud architecture, data engineering & data management, security & compliance, microservices & API design, ERP integration (e.g., SAP), and enterprise systems & infrastructure.
  • Experience providing direction to multiple architects and technical leads, not just engineering teams.
  • Experience in scaled agile product development environments with a strong understanding of scaled agile delivery principles.
  • Strong communication, executive-level influence, and stakeholder management capabilities.
  • Ability to build trust quickly and foster high-performing engineering culture.
Benefits
  • Health Care
  • Retirement Plans
  • Top Industry Wages
  • Paid Time Off & Sign-on Bonus
  • Relocation Services
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
architecture strategycloud native data productsdata acquisitiondata storagedata modelingplatform integrationtechnical leadershipsystem performance optimizationincident resolutionAgile methodology
Soft Skills
communicationexecutive influencestakeholder managementmentoringtrust buildingteam leadershiptechnical maturity developmentcollaborationproblem-solvingstrategic thinking