Senior Product Systems Architect – GridBeats Substation Monitoring
GE Vernova · Posted Oct 26
Power generation, wind turbine, grid solution, and electrification services
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About the role
GE Vernova's Grid Automation business is creating the GridBeats Product Line to deliver software-defined automation solutions that improve grid flexibility, reliability, and sustainability. The role focuses on a next-generation substation monitoring platform combining smart online sensors, data integration, and analytics for real-time grid operations. The Senior Product Systems Architect will own the platform architecture across hardware, firmware, software, and data layers, translate customer needs into system requirements, and lead technical trade-offs with engineering teams, suppliers, and partners.
What you will do
- Define and own the overall architecture of the substation monitoring platform, encompassing hardware, firmware, software, and data layers.
- Translate customer and product needs into system capabilities, requirements, interfaces and technical acceptance criteria , ensuring alignment with product goals and operational constraints.
- Act as the technical bridge between product management, domain SME, engineering teams, suppliers and customers.
- Create and maintain the key architecture, system requirements and interface documentation needed to guide engineering.
- Lead technical product discovery, feasibility assessments, prototypes and architecture trade-offs across performance, cost, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Develop a forward-looking platform strategy to support integration of AI/analytics, expandability, and evolving grid needs.
- Design software architecture to support edge-to-cloud integration, including secure communication, scalable data pipelines, and deployment flexibility
- Design the software and data architecture for secure edge-to-cloud integration, scalable data pipelines, and flexible deployment across local, distributed, and cloud environments.
- Align system design with industry standards (e.g., IEC 61850, IEEE C37, DNP3, MODBUS) for secure and reliable operation in grid environments.
- Integrate sensor data, asset models, and diagnostic tools into a unified platform covering data acquisition, processing, visualization, and diagnostics.
- Establish architectural patterns for modular deployment, secure access control, update mechanisms, and multi-tenant operation for cloud systems.
- Manage technical decisions around containerization (e.g., Docker), orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), and cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure).
- Support field trials and customer pilots, incorporating lessons learned into the product architecture.
- S upport make –buy–partner decisions and l ead the technical evaluation and integration of suppliers, sensors, analytics providers and third-party technologies ,
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or related field (master’s preferred).
- Solid and strong experience in system architecture or complex product development in industrial or energy applications.
- Experience defining systems that combine hardware, software, communications and data processing.
- Understanding of systems decomposition, requirements flow-down, and cross-domain interface definition.
- Demonstrated leadership in technical coordination across cross-functional teams (engineering, customer-facing functions, partners)
- Experience with digital, software-enabled or analytics driven solutions.
- Ability to clearly communicate architecture and trade-offs to varied audiences, both technical and executive.
- Fluent in spoken and written English.
Preferred qualifications
- Domain knowledge in electric power transmission & distribution, especially substations and power systems .
- Exposure to edge computing, IoT architectures , and real-time analytics.
- Understanding of AI/ML applications for predictive diagnostics or fault analysis.
- Experience evaluating suppliers and integrating third-party technologies.
- Strong customer orientation, commercial awareness and product thinking.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About GE Vernova
GE Vernova Inc. is a global energy company that provides equipment, services, and software to generate, transfer, orchestrate, convert, and store electricity. Operating through its Power, Wind, and Electrification segments, the company supports a broad customer base across more than 100 countries in powering economies and driving the energy transition. Formed as part of the strategic spin-off of General Electric's energy portfolio, GE Vernova is dedicated to electrifying and decarbonizing the world.
- Industry
- Energy
- Company size
- 75000+ employees
- Founded
- 2024
- Location
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer and President
Stephen F. Angel
Chairman of the Board
Lola Lin
Chief Legal Officer and Secretary
Roger Martella
Chief Corporate Officer, Chief Sustainability Officer & Head of Global Government Affairs
Eric Gray
CEO, Power Segment
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