Solutions Architect

Murphy USA; El Dorado (AR); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Murphy USA is seeking a Solutions Architect to provide architectural leadership across multiple domains, shaping future business technology and aligning initiatives with company goals.

You will collaborate with delivery teams to ensure well-engineered solutions, evaluate new technologies, and balance standardization with innovation, cost, and risk management.

Qualifications

• Experience designing enterprise-scale solutions across cloud platforms.
• Strong understanding of data architecture, relational and non-relational databases, and data modeling.
• Experience with streaming and messaging technologies supporting near real-time use cases.
• Ability to bridge business and technology discussions and communicate with executives and technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution architecture planning and execution for cross-domain initiatives.
• Design end-to-end solution architectures including application, data, and infrastructure components.
• Promote modern architecture patterns: event-driven, API-first, SOA and microservices.
• Collaborate with delivery teams to ensure secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and translate business needs into technical designs.

Skills

Cloud platforms

SDLC methodologies (Agile & DevOps)

Data architecture

Communication

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Databricks

Kafka

Kinesis

Event Hubs

API design

Job description

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, address end to end solutions and identify 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:

• 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
• 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.