Senior System Architect; RightAngle

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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 Right Angle 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.

• 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.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of relevant architecture experience required.
• 5+ years ION Right Angle 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, Solar Winds DPA) experience preferred.
• Scaled Agile Framework experience preferred.

• 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 clearly, verbally and in writing; 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. Decisions and recommendations are clearly linked to MPC’s strategy.
• Cloud Computing – Managing cloud services, developing cloud applications, and using cloud architecture to meet customer needs.
• Continuous Improvement Mindset – Identifies and leads opportunities for continuous improvement and value creation, both incremental and large-scale.
• Dev Sec Ops  – Practices that automate security integration throughout the software development lifecycle.
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