Senior Enterprise Architect

Working Location: Kai Tak, Kowloon

Employment Duration: 2-year Contract

CLP Digital enables the organization transformation toward a reliable, affordable, and low-carbon energy future. This role offers the opportunity to work across the full power system value chain—generation, grid, energy markets (cross boarder HK and mainland), and customers—while developing deep expertise in enterprise architecture within a critical infrastructure environment.

The role drives Integrated System Planning & Orchestration capability by ensuring business requirements across generation assets, grid operations, energy storage, and demand-side management are translated into coherent, secure, and scalable digital architectures.

Working closely with business stakeholders, delivery teams, and vendor partners, the role ensures alignment between business strategy, and CLP’s digital platforms.

Responsibilities

Architecture Definition & Alignment

• Define and maintain current, target, and transition architectures in alignment with CLP Digital standards and roadmaps
• Ensure architectural synergies across generation planning, grid operations, system planning, and demand-side systems
• Effectively articulate technology options, constraints, and trade‑offs in business terms, translating architectural decisions into commercial value drivers, including cost optimisation, risk reduction and capital efficiency
• Support business leaders in digital system roadmap definition and investment prioritisation, providing clear rationale on expected financial returns, system benefits, and long‑term value to inform executive decision‑making

Integrated System Planning Enablement

• Contribute to digital architecture designs that support Integrated System Planning use cases, including scenario-based generation planning, system optimization, and flexibility analysis
• Support architecture decisions related to economic dispatch, capacity planning, and grid optimization solutions
• Translate power system and operational requirements into application, integration, data and ML/AI architecture artefacts

Platform & Technology Architecture

• Provide architectural guidance and design input for key platforms, including: 
  • AVEVA and Schneider Electric platforms (OT data, grid control automation, asset performance analytics)
  • Plexos for system planning and market simulation
  • Uplight or equivalent platforms for demand-side , DERMS and VPP
• Support the adoption of multi-cloud, OT–IT integration, ML and AI

Architecture Governance

• Ensure solution designs comply with CLP’s architecture principles, security requirements, and interoperability standards
• Identify and manage architectural risks, dependencies, and technical debt

Stakeholder Engagement

• Proactively engage Heads of Business Units and senior leaders across Generation, Grid, and Customer domains to ensure digital architecture decisions are aligned with business priorities and cross‑departmental outcomes
• Partner closely with business units, delivery teams, data and analytics teams, and strategic vendors to enable end‑to‑end solution delivery with clear ownership and accountability

Requirements

Experience & Qualifications

• 10+ years of working experiences in utilities, energy, infrastructure, or other asset-intensive industries required
• Education: Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related discipline
• Experience contributing to large-scale digital, OT/IT, or grid modernization programs

Knowledge, Skills & Capabilities

• Power System & Energy Domain
  • In-depth domain knowledge of power system planning and operations, including generation scheduling, dispatch, and grid constraints
  • Understanding of electricity market mechanisms and system dispatch principles
  • Understanding of both international power system platforms and China domestic power system environments, including local standards and vendor ecosystems
• Digital Architecture & Technology
  • Solid foundation in enterprise and solution architecture disciplines
  • Experience in system integration, data architecture, and platform-based solutions
  • Familiarity with: 
    • Utility OT environments (SCADA, historians, telemetry)
    • Cloud platforms (Azure / Ali Cloud)
    • Data, analytics, and AI/ML enablement patterns in power and utility sector
  • Understanding of cybersecurity, resilience, and compliance considerations in critical infrastructure environments

Personal Attributes

• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills
• Ability to work effectively across business and technical teams
• Clear communicator, capable of conveying technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Comfortable operating in complex, multi-stakeholder, and regulated environments
• Demonstrates ownership, professionalism, and continuous improvement mindset