Solution Architect

Job Summary:

Primary responsibilities are focused on maturing solution architecture standards, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards and roadmaps, facilitating solution architecture and platform consistency across product lines, and participating in leading architectural change for a successful, growth-oriented technology leader in the energy industry.

Job Responsibilities:

1. Implement, facilitate, communicate, and influence the use of solution architecture strategy, standards, and best practices
2. Define and manage solution architectures and design standards
3. Create and execute solution architecture roadmaps that align with architecture strategy and standards and product line strategies
4. Collaborate with technical teams, solution architects, and enterprise architecture to ensure consistent architectures across the organization
5. Modularize and modernize solution architectures of existing monolithic systems with minimal impact to end-users
6. Discover and quantify technical debt in current solutions and create plans to reduce or eliminate technical debt that align with product line and digital strategies  
7. Identify risks and trade-offs with solution architecture options and decisions
8. Build and nature relationships with functional and IT leaders, documenting pain points, aligning with functional roadmaps, and building shared technology plans for the future
9. Conduct architectural evaluations of existing solutions and identify opportunities to achieve similar capabilities with greater efficiencies or less cost

Skills:

1. Experience with architecture and development of secure web applications with the .NET framework, Java, and/or a JavaScript framework, or other modern technical stacks
2. Experience with architecture and development of secure APIs using modern API technologies such as REST, GraphQL, and/or gRPC
3. Experience defining and managing solution architecture strategies working in alignment with solution architects, enterprise architecture along with functional and technical product line teams
4. Experience creating, documenting, and governing solution architectures and standards
5. Strong knowledge of architecture patterns and software design patterns and principles
6. Strong object-oriented design skills
7. Strong communication skills
8. Strong collaboration skills across multiple teams with differing needs and priorities
9. Experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization with an understanding of various facilitation techniques

Desired Knowledge:

1. Experience with architecture and development of distributed applications deployed to field sites with potential for network connectivity disruption
2. Experience coaching, mentoring, or leading software developers
3. Experience with cloud architecture and cloud technologies, preferably with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
4. Certification as a cloud solutions architect is considered a plus
5. Experience with architecture of PaaS solutions
6. Experience with API management products, API design, and/or swagger
7. Experience with DevOps and/or DevSecOps practices
8. Experience with the agile methodology

Additional requirements: Regular attendance; the ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing in English with co- workers, supervisors, internal and external customers; the ability to work in stressful conditions; the ability to adapt and respond in changing circumstances; the ability to use a personal computer with the Windows(R) operating system to complete time sheets, send and receive email, and access information posted on the Company's intranet; availability as needed to work on both a scheduled and call-out basis; and the ability to work at the assigned job site. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, or working conditions.

Magellan Midstream Holdings GP, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we do not discriminate against applicants due to race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, national origin, veteran status, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, or on the basis of disability.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.