Senior Solution Architect, Midstream Operations

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Position Summary The Senior Solution Architect plays a critical role in designing and implementing innovative digital solutions to enhance the performance and reliability of MPC’s Operational Facilities. This role blends Information Technology and Operational Technology expertise to drive strategic advancements and support mission-critical operations. The ideal candidate will align solutions with enterprise architecture standards, assess and integrate emerging technologies, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, and aligned with business goals.

Strong leadership, business acumen, and Oil & Gas industry experience are highly valued in this role.

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
· Define and drive the overall solution architecture strategy and roadmap for business initiatives.
· Serve as a coordinating architectural advisor for cross functional solution delivery, collaborating with business stakeholders, Enterprise and System Architects to ensure cohesive, value-driven designs.
· Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with business and architecture strategies.
· Mentor and guide teams in solution architecture best practices across applicable Architecture Domains (Business, Application, Technology. Information and Security architecture).
· Resolve complex integration and alignment challenges across systems.
· Represent solution architecture in business and IT strategy discussions.
· Bridge business needs and technical implementation, ensuring solutions solve the core business problem
· Education and Experience
· Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience required.
· Five (5) or more years of relevant IT experience, including two (2) or more years of relevant architecture experience required.

Experience in Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, or Digital Architecture, with a strong focus on designing and delivering solutions within Microsoft Azure cloud environments preferred.

Experience architecting and implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions, including Azure AI services, Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and emerging AI/ML architecture patterns preferred.

Experience in data architecture, including enterprise data platforms, data modeling, system integration patterns, data governance, data quality, and master data management (MDM) preferred.

Experience developing scalable, secure, and resilient architecture solutions that align business objectives, technology strategies, and enterprise architecture standards.

Experience translating complex business requirements into cloud, data, and AI-enabled technology solutions that drive innovation and business value preferred.

Skills Adaptability
- Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment (e.g., people, processes, structure, or culture); adjusting effectively to change by exploring the benefits, trying new approaches, and collaborating with others to make the change successful.

AI Fundamentals
- Understanding of core AI concepts and methods, ability to apply AI to job-relevant use cases and capacity to contribute to organizational AI reimagination.

Change Management
- Change Management refers to a systematic approach for…