IT Architect

SUMMARY

Mortenson is currently seeking an IT Architect responsible for defining, governing, and assuring solutions across the Oracle and non-Oracle Cloud ecosystem. This role provides strategic design leadership across multiple programs, business groups and technologies, ensuring alignment between business strategy, cloud platform capabilities, and long-term architectural design goals. This role owns solution design governance, standards, and decision frameworks, and serves as the final escalation point for design risk, cross-program consistency, and complex design decisions across Oracle and non-Oracle cloud platforms, integrations, data, security, and reporting.

RESPONSIBILITIES

* Solution Design and Strategic Ownership

* Own the application-level solution design vision for Cloud processes across multiple business groups and technologies.

* Define target-state, transition, and future-state solution design aligned to organizational strategy, application roadmaps and ensuring consistency and reuse of patterns.

* Establish, enforce, and evolve solution design governance frameworks, principles, standards, and reference models.

* Act as the reviewer for solution decisions, exceptions, and risk acceptance. Oversee and validate solution designs produced by other Solution Architects and technical teams

* Ensure solutions are upgrade-safe, secure, scalable, cost-effective, and supportable.

* Integration, Data, and Security Governance

* Govern enterprise integration strategies, API standards, and data ownership models.

* Ensure solutions comply with enterprise security, compliance, audit, and regulatory requirements.

* Stakeholder Leadership and Influence

* Partner with executive leadership, business sponsors, and delivery leadership to align technology strategy with business outcomes.

* Translate complex architectural concepts into executive-level guidance and recommendations.

* Drive team collaboration by partnering with developers and stakeholders to deliver optimized applications and integrations; providing technical guidance through design and code reviews

* Lead business interaction by engaging business partners to understand needs, respond to questions and concerns, and translate requirements into actionable technical solutions.

* Solution Enablement and Mentorship

* Mentor Solution Architects and Technical Architects on solution design thinking, governance, design quality and drive maturity through standards of adoption and knowledge sharing.

* Demonstrate curiosity and initiative by proactively exploring new technologies, methodologies, and tools; evaluating options; and experimenting with solutions that improve scalability, security, and maintainability.

* Apply strong research skills by conducting thorough evaluation of new technologies, frameworks, and best practices through documentation review, trusted resources, and community guidance.

QUALIFICATIONS

* Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience is preferred.

* 15+ years of experience in solution delivery with significant time spent on design and leadership roles.

* Proven experience as a Principal Architect, Solution Architect, or IT Architect on large-scale implementation and solutions integrating multiple applications.

* Proven experience designing custom UI/UX solutions that integrate with databases and web services to retrieve and present data.

* Strong record of defining and governing solution design standards and frameworks.

* Extensive experience delivering large, multi-program, multi-vendor Oracle and non-Oracle initiatives.

* Exceptional stakeholder management, executive communication, and decision-making skills.

* Ability to balance innovation, standardization, delivery pressure, and long-term architectural health.

* Deep architectural understanding and hands on experience with Cloud Architectures with various Oracle and non-Oracle enterprise platform

* Architecture knowledge of:

* Cloud Fusion ERP, HCM, SCM, and EPM

* Enterprise integration patterns and Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC)

* Oracle extensibility strategies using APEX, Visual Builder, and ORDS

* Reporting and analytics architecture (BI Publisher, OTBI)

* Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) fundamentals, IAM, security, and environments

* Non-Oracle Cloud Platforms like Salesforce, UKG, Concur, Procore

* AI Services through Oracle, Microsoft, Google and other vendors

* Deep architectural understanding on how to evaluate and govern solutions using Oracle and non-Oracle integration platforms.

* Strong capability to assess designs for scalability, resiliency, security, cost, and operational supportability.

A few benefits offered include:

(for Non-Craft & Non-Union Craft working 25+ hours / week)

* Medical and prescription drug plans that includes no additional cost vision coverage

* Dental plan

* 401k retirement plan with a generous Mortenson match

* Paid time off, holidays, and other paid leaves

* Employer paid Life, AD&D, and disability insurance

* No-Cost mental health tool…