Hybrid Software Platform Architect

at DTE Energy

• Job title: Software Platform Architect
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Docker, Grafana, Kubernetes, Microservices, SDLC, Splunk, Terraform, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Detroit, United States

About the role

• Architect overseeing technology planning and delivery for DTE Energy's Internal Developer Platform. Empowering application teams through architectural direction and automation in a microservice-driven environment.

Responsibilities

• Enables the organization to meet its technology needs by providing architectural direction and leadership throughout the technology planning and delivery lifecycle, specifically for the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) and Developer Experience.
• Develops technology roadmaps, solution architecture specifications, and technology recommendations that empower application teams through self-service access and automated infrastructure provisioning.
• Oversees the design of 'golden paths' that reduce manual toil and increase engineering velocity while ensuring compliance with security, scalability, and organizational standards.
• Bridges the gap between high-level company strategy and the hands-on implementation of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines in a containerized, microservice-driven environment.
• Conceptualizes, designs, and enables the construction of software applications and platform hosting environments.
• Provides direction and leadership to the ITS community across multiple teams.
• Drives engineering velocity and reduces manual toil by embedding security, compliance, and policies directly into platform workflows.
• Articulates the architectural vision by creating models, diagrams, and component documents.
• Provides technical advice and risk quantification to business partners.
• Maintains awareness of emerging trends in modern platform engineering and the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in information systems discipline and 5 years of information technology experience; OR High School diploma and 9 years of related information technology experience
• Technical lead or architecture experience designing and guiding complex software systems.
• Distributed systems and cloud experience, including Azure and AWS, cloud PaaS, APIs, microservices, and integrations (5+ years).
• Expert‑level infrastructure automation experience using Terraform (HCL), OPA, and GitHub Actions.
• Strong container and orchestration expertise, including Docker, Kubernetes, and workflow tools such as Helm or ArgoCD.
• Experience building self‑service platform blueprints using TypeScript, YAML, or JSON‑based APIs.
• Experience integrating monitoring and logging solutions (e.g., Dynatrace, Grafana, Splunk) into automated pipelines.
• Industry‑recognized architecture or cloud certification (e.g., TOGAF, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect).

Benefits

• Emergency Response: Yes – Must be available to perform a primary assignment in support of DTE’s emergency response to storms or other events that impact service to our customers.