Senior System Architect

About the role

The Senior System Architect at MPC plays a pivotal role in designing, improving, and sustaining complex cybersecurity, hybrid cloud, operational technology, and infrastructure platforms that support critical business operations. This role collaborates on long-term technical direction, practical architecture roadmaps, and ensures supported systems are secure, resilient, scalable, and aligned with enterprise technology and business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate current-state capabilities and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Strengthen system architecture and improve configuration and lifecycle management practices.
• Help ensure technology environments operate in a manner that reduces risk and supports safe, reliable business operations.
• Work independently on complex, high-impact initiatives that require advanced technical expertise, sound judgment, and strong problem-solving skills.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, develop standards and procedures, improve automation opportunities, support audit and compliance readiness, enhance monitoring and observability capabilities, and drive continuous improvement across enterprise security and infrastructure platforms.
• Provide guidance, mentorship, and escalation support to engineers, analysts, managed service partners, and cross-functional teams.
• Establish clear expectations for system ownership, documentation, incident response readiness, configuration management, operational support, and sustainable technology delivery.

Requirements

This role requires a strong blend of architecture experience, operational discipline, security awareness, and leadership through influence. The ideal candidate will bring a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or a related field, with five or more years of relevant IT experience, including two or more years of relevant architecture experience. Collaboration with cross-functional teams, business stakeholders, and managed service providers to resolve complex issues, improve system reliability, and deliver secure, scalable technology solutions is also essential.

Qualifications

• 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 collaborating with cross-functional technical teams, business stakeholders, and managed service providers to resolve complex issues, improve system reliability, and deliver secure, scalable technology solutions.

Skills

• Adaptability - Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment.
• 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 defining and implementing procedures and/or technologies to deal with changes in the environment.
• 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, both verbally and in writing, clearly and credibly. 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.
• Cloud Computing - Knowing how to manage cloud services, develop cloud applications, and use cloud architecture to meet customer needs.
• Continuous Improvement Mindset - Identifies and leads opportunities for continuous improvement and value creation, both incremental and large-scale.
• DevSecOps - A set of practices that automates the integration of security at every phase of the software development lifecycle, from initial design through integration, testing, deployment, and software delivery, with an aim towards shortening the systems development life cycle and pas well as continuous delivery and a security first approach.
• Edge Computing - Familiarity with IoT concepts and protocols, as well as experience designing architectures that incorporate IoT devices and enable seamless connectivity and data exchange.
• Performance Monitoring - The process of measuring the performance of a system in real time in order to determine problems and identify other factors that may cause problems in the future.
• Process Orchestration - Process orchestration refers to the coordination and management of various tasks, activities, and resources within a workflow or business process.
• Strategic Outlook - Examines issues, generates ideas, creates future scenarios, and develops plans with a long-term perspective.
• System Reliability - Reliability refers to the ability of a system or component to consistently perform its intended function without failure, errors, or breakdowns.
• Systems Design - The process of designing technical solutions and systems to meet specified business and user requirements that are compatible with established system architectures, as well as organizational and performance standards.