IT Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Own the solution architecture for assigned products, ensuring designs are scalable, secure, and implementable.
• Collaborate with business and engineering stakeholders (e.g., the product teams) to understand required business capabilities and success criteria (business context).
• Collaborate with other Enterprise Architects to leverage and improve reference architecture and contribute/own the design of solution architecture.
• Identify, track, and manage enterprise technical debt, partnering with other Enterprise Architects and engineering teams to prioritize and remediate it within technology roadmaps.
• Maintain awareness of enterprise architecture standards, cross-domain dependencies, and shared platforms to ensure solutions align and scale beyond individual products.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to break down solution architecture into design patterns that can be implemented successfully and iteratively, where possible.
• Define and promote API and integration architecture patterns — API-first design, well-defined service contracts, event-driven and microservice integration, MACH principals and reusable services that scale across products.
• Apply agentic and intelligent-automation architecture patterns — orchestration, tool and service invocation, retrieval and grounding, human-in-the-loop controls, and guardrails — where they advance business outcomes.
• Embed security, identity, and data-protection requirements into designs, partnering with security stakeholders and leveraging the enterprise's identity, secrets management, and network security controls.
• Maintain solution design documentation and build technology roadmaps and reference material pertinent to the products of responsibility.
• Actively participate in (and facilitate as needed) required architecture and governance reviews to ensure compliance.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to identify and improve operational metrics — monitoring, alerting, logging, building pipelines, and testing — supporting reliability and observability.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and platform capabilities, recommending their adoption where they advance Casey's business and technology strategy.
• Familiar managing Enterprise capabilities and catalogs and experience in understanding EA Frameworks (TOGAF).
• Create system diagrams for new and existing ecosystems that is appropriate for business and technical stakeholders at various levels of detail and context.
• Full architecture responsibilities of one or more technical/business domains.

Requirements

• This position requires authorization to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based immigration sponsorship now or in the future.
• Casey’s will not provide sponsorship or employer support for applications or petitions for F-1 OPT, F-1 CPT, H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, J-1, or any other employment-based visa.
• Bachelor's degree in information technology discipline or equivalent work-related experience.
• 3+ years working in Technical Architecture with increasing levels of responsibility.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with the software lifecycle (building, deploying, testing, and supporting software applications).
• 3+ years working as a technical leader of a software engineering team, group, or technology.
• Working knowledge of API and integration architecture patterns (e.g., REST, event-driven, microservices. MACH) and of agentic and intelligent-automation patterns (orchestration, tool invocation, retrieval/grounding, and guardrails).
• Familiarity with modern cloud, CI/CD, and DevOps practices and tooling (e.g., version control, containerization, infrastructure-as-code) and enterprise data platforms.
• Proven ability working with applications, services, data, infrastructure, cloud technologies, and/or IT security.
• Working knowledge of enterprise security and identity concepts, including IAM, secrets management, and network/proxy controls.
• Prior experience managing a continuous improvement process and building technology roadmaps.
• Detail-oriented and highly organized, with the ability to manage multiple complex tasks simultaneously.
• Prior experience working with agile development teams and organizations.