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This leader oversees Solution Architecture, System Architecture, UI/UX and AI/Agentic orchestration design, ensuring all critical initiatives and products have a strong architectural runway and deliver consistent, interoperable, scalable designs that align to enterprise strategy.

• Leads managers and individual contributors through guidance, coaching, and support to ensure assignments align with organizational goals, architectural vision, and enterprise design standards. Drives recruitment, development, retention, performance management, and succession planning with a focus on strengthening solution architecture, system architecture, and UI/UX as well as AI & agentic orchestration architecture.
• Collaborates with key stakeholders and senior leadership to provide strategic guidance on technology direction and architectural risks and opportunities, influencing decisions to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture strategy and long-term scalability.
• Leads the definition and evolution of solution architecture, system architecture, and UI/UX design standards, including patterns, guardrails, and reference models to ensure consistent, high-quality solution design across product teams. Oversee the development and application of architecture strategies and frameworks across domains, ensuring end-to-end coherence and alignment with enterprise guardrails.
• Manages architectural reviews and technical decision-making processes, providing oversight on critical design choices and ensuring alignment across multiple projects and teams.
• Ensures solutions are designed to meet business objectives inclusive of user experience through architecture principles and governance, enabling scalability, security by design, and adaptability to changing business needs.
• Collaborates with leadership to align architecture initiatives with business goals, ensuring solutions are designed for long-term sustainability, reuse, and experience quality.
• Establishes and governs architecture decision frameworks and review processes, ensuring consistency, transparency, and alignment with enterprise standards across initiatives and value streams.
• Drives innovation by evaluating and guiding adoption of emerging technologies with a focus on architectural fit, business value, and reduction of technical debt, operating efficiency and cost.
• Leads, coaches, and develops a team of Solution and System Architects fostering a high-performing culture centered on design excellence, governance, and continuous improvement.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other computer-related degreerequired.
• Twelve (12) or more years of diversified IT experiencerequired.
• Five (5) or more years directly managing professional staffrequired.
• Five (5) or more years of experience in enterprise architecture, including defining and enforcing architecture principles and standards preferred.
• Experience leading architecture reviews and making technical decisions across multiple projects required.
• Experience in developing user-centered design processes.
• Deep understanding of Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, and automated testing preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate and adoptnew technologies, tools, and frameworks to improve performance, security, and maintainability preferred.
• Experience managing APIs, microservices, and data platform interfaces to enable seamless enterprise-wide data exchange preferred.
• Proventrack recordof monitoring andoptimizingsoftware performance, reliability, and security preferred.
• Familiarity with secure coding practices, monitoring, and alerting systems preferred.
• ITIL, TOGAF, Agile,SAFe, PMI, Organization Change Management, and Lean Six Sigma certifications preferred.

• Strategic Outlook - Examines issues, generates ideas, creates future scenarios, and develops plans with a long-term perspective. Ensures short-term goals support long-term strategy and that organizational/functional strategy aligns with and supports MPC's overall business strategy.
• Business Acumen - Applies knowledge of MPC's business, industry, and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals. Makes decisions and recommendations clearly linked to MPC's strategy.
• Results Driven - Drives operational and process excellence and innovative behavior by empowering others, collaborating, taking appropriate risks, making timely decisions, and holding people accountable for results.
• Authentic Communicator - Expresses ideas and information, both verbally and in writing, clearly and credibly. Listens to understand and fosters constructive dialogue.
• Continuous Improvement Mindset - Identifies and leads opportunities for continuous improvement and value creation, both incremental and large-scale.
• Energizing the Organization - Creates a purposeful, engaged, optimistic workforce.
• Ongoing Learning & Self-Development - Regularly determines new areas for learning and acquires strategies and best practices for gaining/improving knowledge, behaviors, and skills.
• Selecting and Developing People - Recognizes and selects high caliber talent, accurately assesses abilities and potential, coaches to develop capabilities and builds high- performing teams.
• 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.
• Data-Driven Decision Making - Applies data to make informed decisions with a priority on using real-time data, analytics, and insights to optimize operations, improve safety, and enhance the company's competitive edge.
• Digital Awareness - Actively explore, learn, and implement emerging digital tools, technologies, and trends. Involves seeking out new information, asking insightful questions, and testing innovative approaches to understand how digital solutions can create value, improve processes, or enhance experiences. Demonstrates openness to change, continuous learning, and adapting to the evolving digital landscape.
• Influencing Others - The ability to garner support for initiatives by gaining the respect of others and inspiring trust and confidence.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other computer-related degree required.
Twelve (12) or more years of diversified IT experience required.
Five (5) or more years directly managing professional staff required.
Five (5) or more years of experience in enterprise architecture, including defining and enforcing architecture principles and standards preferred.
Experience leading architecture reviews and making technical decisions across multiple projects required.
Experience in developing user-centered design processes.
Deep understanding of Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, and automated testing preferred.
Demonstrated ability to evaluate and adopt new technologies, tools, and frameworks to improve performance, security, and maintainability preferred.
Experience managing APIs, microservices, and data platform interfaces to enable seamless enterprise-wide data exchange preferred.
Proven track record of monitoring and optimizing software performance, reliability, and security preferred.
Familiarity with secure coding practices, monitoring, and alerting systems preferred.
ITIL, TOGAF, Agile, SAFe, PMI, Organization Change Management, and Lean Six Sigma certifications preferred.

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