Job Description
MRC Global serves the oil and gas industry across the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors as well as the chemical and gas distribution market sectors worldwide. We have an immediate opening for a IT ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT
JOB PURPOSE: Accountable for proactively and holistically leading enterprise architecture activities for achieving targeted business outcomes
- Individual must be able to perform the essential duties with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Design and lead the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities and business requirements
- Manage and develop the architecture for projects working closely with application leaders to ensure the project is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture
- Monitor the current state solutions portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of technologies
- Define the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise’s future-state architecture vision
- Design and direct the governance activities associated with ensuring solutions architecture assurance and compliance
- Consult with infrastructure and application development projects to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify projects to accommodate the solutions architecture
- Document all solution architecture design and analysis work
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned
- Take reasonable care for the safety and health of yourself and others; report workplace hazards, injuries, or illness immediately.
Any combination of requirements, which provide knowledge and abilities necessary to perform essential duties and responsibilities, will be considered.
- Undergraduate degree in computer science, systems analysis, related study or equivalent combination of education and work experience that provides the knowledge and abilities necessary to perform the work;
- Minimum of five years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines including technical architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or operations
- Good understanding of the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models
- Understanding of agile methods and processes including capability of supporting agile project teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impacts and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt
- Ability to apply multiple technical solutions to business problems
- Ability to translate future-state business capabilities and requirements into solution architecture requirements
- Ability to propose and estimate the financial impact of solution architecture alternatives
- Knowledge of all components of an enterprise technical architecture
- Knowledge of financial models and budgeting
- Ability to work with developers in an in-and-out outsourced environment
PREFERRED QUALIFICATION:
- 10+ years of recent experience as an IT Enterprise Architect
- 5 years of experience with offshore outsourcing
- 3 years of experience with Cloud computing, preferably, Azure
- 5+ years of experience with Networking, SDWAN, cisco technologies
- 5+ years of experience with Cloud and on prem security technologies and architecture
- 5+ years of experience with Active directory design & implementation
Company Description
AT MRC Global you’ll be rewarded for your contributions and encouraged to learn and grow. Most importantly, you’ll be joining a team of people who care about each other sincerely, and who care about the communities where they live and work.
MRC Global serves the oil and gas industry across the upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors as well as the chemical and gas distribution market sectors worldwide.