IT Tech Lead-- KUMDC5836256

PCRA – IT Tech Lead | 2 positions

Location - Columbus, Indiana

Hybrid 3-days from the office.

Job Summary

Assesses and applies new solution designs against defined architecture strategies, principles, policies and standards in alignment with enterprise architecture strategies. Where current strategies and principles do not meet needs, drives changes back to the Principal Solution

Architect. Defines application and solution designs across multiple systems and platforms in coordination with product teams and domain stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Translates business goals into end-to-end solution designs that align with enterprise standards, modern technology practices and measurable business outcomes (such as improved time-to-market, cost optimization, and scalability).
• Architects and delivers cloud-native, API-driven, event-based and microservices-enabled solutions that accelerate business outcomes.
• Applies and adapts enterprise architecture frameworks to ensure interoperability, performance, scalability and reuse in federated and multi-domain contexts.
• Defines solution roadmaps supporting incremental modernization, continuous delivery and alignment with business capability roadmaps.
• Champions reuse through shared patterns, platforms, services and capabilities, driving simplification and cost reduction.
• Collaborates with Principal and Enterprise Architects to escalate systemic technology gaps, influence strategic platforms and drive alignment across domains.
• Promotes secure-by-design and data-driven architectures that enhance resilience, insight driven decision-making and operational efficiency.
• Builds strong relationships across business, product and architecture teams to effectively promote solution development using standard technologies and future-ready platforms.
• Maintains awareness of emerging technologies, trends and tools, and pilots proof-of-concepts to validate their applicability and value.
• Analyzes infrastructure, platform and application capacities and provides recommendations for emerging needs and technical debt mitigation.

Qualifications and Competencies

Competencies

Security & Compliance Principles - Applies standards, tools, and best practices to embed security, privacy, and compliance into the design/build/test/operate lifecycle for products, services, apps, systems, software, and configurations—balancing protection, efficiency, and

cost.

• Data Principles – Governs, models, secures, implements, and observes data flows to ensure integrity, quality, and compliance—enabling trusted, scalable, cost-conscious data use.
• Solution Design - Translate business requirements into integrated designs, architectures, patterns, and system interactions that deliver customer value and align with enterprise standards and subject-matter platforms.
• System Architecture- Creates and evolves architecture system blueprints developing reusable patterns and roadmaps to ensure scalability, resilience, security, and long-term efficiency.
• Business Architecture - Structures capabilities, value streams, processes and operating models that translate strategy into executable designs, guide investment and transformation decisions, and deliver strategic results.
• Strategic Roadmap Planning – Develops globally tuned, multi-year roadmaps that connect vision to execution—sequencing investments with capacity, risk, and measurable benefits.
• Demonstrating Mastery – Maintains essential knowledge and proficiency in relevant domains, tools, technologies, methodologies, or frameworks through targeted credentials and rigorous proficiency, future-proofing organizational skills against strategic needs.
• Strategic and Innovative Thinking – Evaluates business and technology trends, anticipates future needs, develops creative approaches, and frames innovations to shape strategy and create durable value with cost-aware innovation.
• Technical Passion & Drive – Models curiosity and excitement for technology by self-initiating continuous development, experimenting with emerging technologies, and identifying insertion opportunities that accelerate business performance.
• Driving Effective Outcomes – Takes ownership, acts with urgency, and initiates action to turn goals into clear plans, decisions, guardrails, and cadences while navigating ambiguity and change to drive momentum and deliver consistent results.
• Engaging with Impact – Communicates with clarity and purpose to align stakeholders, foster collaboration, build trust, and influence coordinated action across teams and functions to accelerate outcomes.
• Values Differences – Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.
• Ensuring Customer Success – Embraces a customer-first mindset to deliver outcomes by linking customer needs and business priorities to aligned solutions, delivery, adoption, satisfaction, and realized value through sustained engagement that builds partnership and trust.

Education, Licenses and Certifications

• College, university, or equivalent degree in relevant technical discipline, or relevant equivalent experience required.
• This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

Experience

• 6+ years of experience in solution or system architecture in large, complex organizations.
• Demonstrated architecture and design experience, strong knowledge of modern architectural patterns, cloud platforms and integration technologies