IT Architect

Solutions Architect: (Location, El Dorado, Arkansas)

Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Do you want to work for a company that offers both challenges and opportunities? Then Murphy USA is the place for you! Murphy USA is growing across the country and the possibilities, like the roads our customers travel, are wide open! Since opening our first location in 1996, Murphy USA has become the place to go for discount prices on quality fuels. Today, we continue to move forward for our customers, investors and stakeholders by growing our presence in the towns and communities in which they are growing. We will continue to make solid alliances, responsible investments and smarter business practices for the benefit of all involved, while staying true to our goal of helping our customers Buy Smarter and Drive Farther !

As the Solutions Architect you will provide expertise across multiple architectural domains, addresses end to end solutions and identifies opportunities to shape the future of the business through technology in alignment with the goals, needs, and objectives of the company. Responsible for development standards and roadmaps, assessment of new technologies for investment, and articulating the transition from current to future state in consideration of the emerging needs of the business, security policies and requirements, and striking an optimal balance between standardization, customization, innovation, costs and risk management. You will collaborate with development teams to ensure well-engineered, tested and deployed application systems components adhering to defined development principles, patterns and standards, as well as perform any other related duties as required or assigned.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Lead solution architecture planning and execution for complex, cross-domain initiatives.

Design and govern end-to-end solution architectures, including application, integration, data, and infrastructure components.

Define and promote modern architecture patterns, including:

Event-driven and real-time architectures

Service-oriented and API-first designs

Cloud-native and platform-based solutions

Partner with delivery teams to ensure solutions are well-architected, secure, scalable, performant, and supportable.

Evaluate emerging technologies and platforms, recommending investments aligned to business outcomes.

Develop and maintain architecture standards, patterns, and reference designs.

Collaborate with business partners to determine buy vs. build decisions and translate business needs into technical solutions.

Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development and engineering teams.

Participate in project intake, planning, and design reviews to ensure architectural alignment.

Work closely with Enterprise Architecture to ensure consistency with enterprise standards and long-term roadmaps.

Focus Areas

This role is expected to have hands-on experience or strong architectural understanding in the following areas:

Big Data & Analytics Platforms

Experience designing solutions using modern data platforms such as Databricks, cloud data lakes, and lakehouse architectures

Data ingestion, transformation, and analytics at scale (batch and streaming)

Analytics, reporting, and data product enablement

Real-Time & Event-Driven Solutions

Architecting real-time data pipelines and streaming solutions (e.g., Kafka, Event Hubs, Kinesis, pub/sub patterns)

Designing event-driven integrations between systems

Supporting low-latency operational and customer-facing use cases

Integration & APIs

RESTful APIs, messaging, and asynchronous integration patterns

SOA and microservices-based architectures

Additional Qualifications

Extensive hands-on experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale solutions.

Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and cloud-native services.

Strong understanding of data architecture, including:

Relational and non-relational databases

Data modeling, querying, and performance optimization

Experience with streaming and messaging technologies supporting near real-time use cases.

Familiarity with platform engineering and shared services models.

Ability to bridge business and technology discussions and clearly communicate with both executive and technical audiences.

Excellent analytical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

Strong communication, collaboration, and consensus-building skills.

Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

5+ years of experience as a Solutions Architect or member of an architecture team providing technical leadership.

Strong experience with modern software development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies, including Agile and DevOps practices.