Sr Manager, Enterprise Architect and Apps

At Murphy Oil Corporation, we believe the rich experiences and backgrounds of our employees strengthen our Company, create a productive workforce, and drive our success. We encourage you to apply for the positions for which you meet the qualifications.

 Job Summary

This Sr Manager is accountable for enterprise architecture strategy, standards, and governance across all technology domains, ensuring alignment, integration, and long-term value across the enterprise. While the Sr Manager collaborates closely with leaders responsible for infrastructure, data, cybersecurity, governance, and service delivery, operational ownership remains within those respective functions.

This leader serves as a trusted advisor to business and technology executives, translating strategic priorities into scalable, secure, and cost-effective technology solutions while guiding application and platform modernization through architectural governance and standards. In addition, the Sr Manager leads and develops a high-performing team of architects and application professionals, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Murphy’s Purpose, Mission, Vision, and Values—Doing Right Always, Stay With It, and Think Beyond Possible—emphasize the importance of clear communication, honoring commitments, fostering collaboration across the organization, recognizing the contributions of others, constructively challenging data, encouraging innovation, and proactively proposing solutions. The path of contribution includes leading defined initiatives, working semi-autonomously to drive meaningful results, advancing technical expertise, cultivating business acumen, building a strong professional reputation, and consistently demonstrating Murphy’s core values.

This role is based in Houston and may work up to two (2) days a week remotely, as business needs allow.

Responsibilities

Enterprise Architecture, Standards & Technology Direction

• Define enterprise architecture vision, principles, governance, and multi-year roadmaps aligned to business priorities


• Guide portfolio rationalization and modernization through architectural standards, investment prioritization, and risk-based decision making


• Establish architecture principles that balance resilience, scalability, security, and cost optimization


• Provide architectural leadership across core technology domains, including cloud, infrastructure, identity and access, collaboration platforms, and enterprise integration


• Ensure alignment with industry best practices and relevant emerging technologies

Business Partnership & Value Delivery

• Partner with business leaders to translate strategic objectives into technology capabilities, investment priorities, and measurable outcomes


• Serve as a strategic advisor on initiatives, transformation efforts, and capital planning through an architectural lens


• Communicate technology trade-offs, risks, and return on investment to executive stakeholders

Leadership & People Development

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing architecture and applications team


• Build a culture of accountability, continuous learning, and product-oriented thinking


• Drive cross-functional collaboration and influence distributed teams toward enterprise standards and goals

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Operational Alignment

• Provide architectural leadership across key technology functions to ensure enterprise alignment, integration, and end-to-end solution integrity


• Collaborate with peer leaders across data, analytics, cybersecurity, governance, and end-user services while operational ownership remains within those functions


• Facilitate enterprise decisions and standards for initiatives that span multiple technology domains


• Incorporate operability, service reliability, and supportability into architecture standards through alignment with IT service management practices

Applications, Data & Platform Architecture

• Define the strategic direction and architectural standards for enterprise applications and platforms


• Govern application lifecycle decisions, including rationalization, modernization, retirement, and adoption of modern application architectures


• Lead enterprise resource planning strategy and optimization, with strong preference for SAP S/4HANA experience


• Define enterprise patterns for data, integration, APIs, and automation that enable scalable, maintainable, and interoperable enterprise systems and services

Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Define governance frameworks and decision models aligned to enterprise risk, security, and compliance requirements


• Partner with cybersecurity and governance teams to deliver secure-by-design, compliant architectures

Success Measures

• Establish and operationalize enterprise architecture governance and standards


• Deliver multi-year roadmaps aligned to business priorities


• Reduce architectural fragmentation and increase platform standardization


• Improve quality and consistency of cross-domain technology decisions


• Influence enterprise investment prioritization and measurable business outcomes

Licenses/ Certifications (preferred)

• TOGAF or equivalent architecture certification


• ITIL


• Agile / SAFe / DevOps / PMP


• Cloud certifications (Azure, AWS)

Qualifications/ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field

• Minimum 15 years of experience across enterprise IT (applications, infrastructure, cloud, data) with10 years in leadership roles managing and developing technology teams

• Proven ability to lead enterprise architecture or large-scale application environments


• Demonstrated success partnering with business leaders to deliver measurable outcomes


• Strong experience in enterprise architecture frameworks, governance, and roadmap development

Desired/ Preferred Qualifications

• Cloud platforms (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP a plus)


• ERP systems (SAP S/4HANA strongly preferred)


• ServiceNow and ITSM frameworks


• Data platforms and analytics ecosystems

The individual is required to follow all applicable safety precautions.  Work is performed almost entirely in a controlled (i.e., inside) environment and does not typically subject the incumbent to any hazardous/extreme elements; some positions may require regularly moving or transporting items weighing up to 25 lbs. around the office for various needs.  The successful candidate must be able to complete all essential physical requirements of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.

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PURPOSE 

We believe in providing energy that empowers people.

MISSION

We challenge the norm, tap into our strong legacy and use our foresight and financial discipline to deliver inspired energy solutions.

VISION

We see a future where we are an industry leader who is positively impacting lives for the next 100 years and beyond.

VALUES & BEHAVIORS

Do Right Always

• Respect people, safety, environment and the law


• Follow through on commitments


• Make it better

Think Beyond Possible

• Offer solution


• Step up and lead


• Don’t settle for “good enough”


• Embrace new opportunities

Stay With It

• Show resilience


• Lean into challenges


• Support each other


• Consider the implications

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