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Position Summary

Commercial IT is seeking an experienced Senior System Architect to join our team and lead digital transformation and application modernization initiatives.

The Senior System Architect – Platform, Energy Trading & Risk Management (ETRM) will support our ION RightAngle platform and collaborate closely with product owners, product managers, and other Commercial IT product line architects. This role is responsible for developing and communicating the technical vision and roadmap for the ETRM product line, ensuring that solutions align with business priorities, strategic goals, and technical standards within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

This position belongs to a family of jobs with increasing responsibility, competency, and skill level. Actual position title and pay grade will be based on the selected candidate’s experience and qualifications.

Key Responsibilities

• Assists in designing governance and standards activities for technology architecture compliance. Participates in hardware and software technology and product standards selection. Participates and contributes in system architect reviews and ensures architecture adherence.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to ensure system architecture alignment with business objectives. Identifies organizational and financial impacts of technology architecture.
• Evaluates and selects appropriate technologies, platforms, and frameworks for systems. Assesses technology industry and market trends and their impact on the enterprise. Evaluates technology options and advises on technology investment decisions.
• Analyzes and translates business and technical requirements into system designs.
• Designs and implements end-to-end system architectures that meet business requirements.
• Defines system integration approaches and ensures interoperability of system components. Provides guidance and support to development teams during system implementation. Leads technology change initiatives to deliver business outcomes. May oversee technology implementation and modification activities.
• Documents and communicates technology architecture design and analysis work. Leads the development of system architecture documentation and diagrams.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related field required.
• 5+ years of relevant architecture experience required.
• 5+ years ION RightAngle experience required.
• Intermediate .NET/C# experience required.
• Intermediate SQL Server experience required.
• Microsoft Azure experience required.
• Complex, multi-application integration experience preferred.
• Application Performance Monitoring tool (Dynatrace, App Insights, SolarWinds DPA) experience preferred.
• Scaled Agile Framework experience preferred.

Skills

• Agile Methodology – Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle, taking incremental steps towards the completion of a project.
• Architecture Frameworks – Proficiency in widely used architecture frameworks like TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) or Zachman Framework to structure and organize architectural artifacts and processes.
• Authentic Communicator – Expresses ideas and information, both verbally and in writing, clearly and credibly. Listens to understand and fosters constructive dialogue.
• Business Acumen – Applies knowledge of MPC’s business, industry and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals. Makes decisions and recommendations clearly linked to MPC’s strategy.
• Cloud Computing – Knowing how to manage cloud services, develop cloud applications, and use cloud architecture to meet customer needs.
• Continuous Improvement Mindset – Identifies and leads opportunities for continuous improvement and value creation, both incremental and large-scale.
• DevSecOps – A set of practices that automates the integration of security at every phase of the software development lifecycle, from initial design through integration, testing, deployment, and software delivery, with an aim towards shortening the systems development life cycle and pas well as  continuous delivery and a security first app