IT Manager - Architecture
- San Antonio, TX
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manages daily operations of the team, providing guidance, mentorship, and driving a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. Oversees recruitment, development, retention, and performance to build strong talent. Plans and leads low- to medium-complexity IT projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and to quality standards. Ensures the availability, reliability, and security of technology systems. Collaborates with key stakeholders and internal groups to identify needs, deliver effective solutions, and support business objectives.
- Foster collaboration with digital delivery teams to accelerate architecture implementation, ensuring secure, scalable, and resilient systems that align with enterprise standards and are ready for smooth transition to Engineering and deployment teams.
- Establish and enforce architecture principles, standards, and best practices, aligned with Enterprise Architecture fundamentals to ensure consistent, scalable, and business-aligned IT solutions across the enterprise.
- Support and advocate for effective architecture plans and strategies and communicate broadly to stakeholders and leadership teams.
- Cultivate collaboration amongst specialized Architecture Roles throughout the practice, Cross Functional IT teams, and relevant business units to drive cohesive outcomes.
- Proactively monitor and evaluate emerging technologies, integrating strategic insights into enterprise architecture to drive innovation, enhance business capabilities, and sustain a competitive advantage across the organization.
- Lead the design and governance of architectures that ensure robust business continuity, disaster recovery, and security, integrating strategic resilience, scalability, and compliance to support enterprise-wide operational excellence.
- Develop and implement IT/OT architectural strategies to create scalable, secure, and innovative solutions that align with enterprise business goals and support multi-site operations.
- Lead the design and delivery of architectural deliverables, including system blueprints, data models, and integration frameworks, ensuring robust and standardized solutions for IT and OT environments.
- Ensure compliance and security standards are incorporated into all architectural designs, mitigating risks and maintaining governance across distributed IT/OT systems.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other computer-related degree required.
- 10+ years of diversified IT experience required.
- 3+ years of direct or indirect leadership experience required.
- 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.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other computer-related degree required
- 10+ years of diversified IT experience required.
- 3+ years of direct or indirect leadership experience required.