AMI Program Quality & Readiness Senior Advisor

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Southern California Edison’s Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) 2.0 Program is a transformational initiative that is modernizing the company’s metering, communications, and data capabilities to support the evolving energy landscape. This enterprise-wide program will replace and support more than 5.7 million meters across SCE’s service territory while advancing the technology and systems that power a smarter, more connected grid. AMI 2.0 brings together professionals across engineering, technology, operations, cybersecurity, customer service, and program management to deliver innovative solutions that enhance grid reliability, improve operational efficiency, and strengthen the customer experience. Employees who support AMI 2.0 will have the opportunity to contribute to a high-impact program that is helping shape the future of energy delivery and enabling Southern California’s transition to a more resilient, intelligent, and sustainable electric grid.

The Senior Advisor, AMI 2.0 Program Quality & Readiness will serve as a senior independent advisor helping one of SCE’s most significant technology and operational transformation programs understand whether it is truly ready to deliver successful outcomes for customers, operators, and stakeholders.  You will provide an end-to-end view of program quality and readiness across PMO, governance, financial management, technology integration, system integration, network, architecture, cybersecurity, engineering, vendor management, deployment, and operational readiness. The Senior Advisor will look beyond the health of individual workstreams to identify risks, gaps, and dependencies that emerge at the intersections between organizations, systems, vendors, processes, and program milestones.

Using a risk-based assurance approach, you will independently assess whether critical controls, governance processes, quality standards, and execution practices are effective and supporting successful program delivery. The role will translate findings and program data into objective insights for leadership, identify systemic and emerging risks early, and work collaboratively with leaders and teams to strengthen readiness and drive sustainable corrective action.

Success in this position requires more than audit or quality expertise. The Senior Advisor, AMI 2.0 Program Quality & Readiness must be able to understand a highly complex technical and operational environment, connect issues across multiple workstreams, ask difficult questions, communicate clearly with senior leaders, and influence outcomes without direct authority. The role will help AMI 2.0 anticipate problems before they become program impacts and strengthen confidence that the program is ready to deliver safe, reliable, and sustainable outcomes for SCE and its customers.

Key Areas of Responsibilities:

• Establish and execute a risk-based assurance and audit plan, conducting independent assessments across AMI 2.0 Program functions, including PMO, Governance, Financial, IT, Network, Architecture, Cybersecurity, Engineering, and Vendor Management.
• Evaluate compliance with key program controls, including schedule/IPP, RAID, change control, financial management, decision management, reporting, and stage gates.
• Assess technical quality and execution readiness across requirements, design, integration, testing, cybersecurity, engineering, deployment, and operations; conduct independent milestone and readiness assessments to identify risks before critical program decisions.
• Independently assess supplier quality plans, contractual deliverables, service levels, acceptance criteria, and performance obligations to identify risks and inform leadership decisions.
• Identify systemic issues, perform root-cause analysis, track corrective actions, and verify effective closure to drive continuous improvement.
• Provide objective, evidence-based reporting on control effectiveness, significant risks, findings, trends, and overall program readiness; influence senior leaders and cross-functional teams to align on sustainable corrective action without direct authority.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, or a related discipline; or a master’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration (MBA), Information Systems, Finance, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in program assurance, quality management, internal audit, risk management, PMO/governance, program delivery, systems integration, operational readiness, or related disciplines, with demonstrated success supporting large, complex, cross-functional programs in utilities, infrastructure, technology transformation, AMI, IT/OT, ERP, or other regulated industries.
• Experience developing and executing risk-based assurance, quality, or control-assessment frameworks (including root-cause analysis, CAPA, and evidence-based testing), with a demonstrated ability to identify control gaps, readiness concerns, and cross-workstream or cross-vendor integration risks and develop actionable recommendations.
• Experience with integrated schedules, RAID management, change control, financial controls, decision governance, executive reporting, and stage-gate, milestone, deployment, or operational-readiness assessments.
• Demonstrated ability to partner across Engineering, IT, Cybersecurity, Operations, PMO, Finance, Supply Management, and vendors, building credibility, facilitating difficult conversations, and influencing decisions and corrective action without direct authority.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex technical, operational, and program information and translate assurance findings into clear, concise risk and readiness insights and recommendations for employees, cross-functional partners, suppliers, and senior leadership.
• Professional certifications such as PMP, PMI-RMP, CIA, CISA, CISSP, CPA, Lean Six Sigma, ASQ quality certifications, or other relevant risk, quality, audit, technology, or program-management certifications.

Additional Information

• This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days.  Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California.  Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
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• Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
• The primary work location for this position can be in Pomona, CA.  However, the successful candidate may also be asked to work for an extended amount of time at Westminster, CA.
• Position will require up to 10% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory. 

About Southern California Edison

The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.

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