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General Summary
Essential Job Accountabilities
- Lead and develop the team by setting priorities, assigning work, coaching performance, supporting hiring and onboarding, and building accountability for delivery, service, quality, and professional standards.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership for assigned solutions, including discovery, design, configuration, development, integration, testing, troubleshooting, implementation, and support.
- Translate defined business priorities and roadmaps into actionable delivery plans that account for capacity, dependencies, risk, technical debt, and support needs.
- Deliver and support assigned solutions across the lifecycle, ensuring existing and new capabilities are secure, reliable, documented, maintainable, and aligned with business and operational needs.
- Coordinate stakeholders, vendors, and change activities by clarifying requirements, managing dependencies, communicating status and risks, and supporting effective adoption and transition to support.
- Apply technical standards, governance, security, privacy, compliance, documentation, reusable patterns, and responsible-use practices to improve quality, consistency, supportability, and risk management.
- Use service, delivery, adoption, quality, risk, cost, and business-outcome measures to inform execution decisions, demonstrate value, and identify opportunities for improvement, automation, modernization, consolidation, or retirement.
Education
- Bachelors’ Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Engineering required
- Project Management Institute (PMI) CAPM or PMP certification required
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) required
Work Experience
- Minimum 8 years’ solution architecture experience in delivering high security, high availability technical solutions
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in all aspects of delivering cloud-based solutions, leveraging industry best practices and deployment strategies
- Demonstrated experience as a Scrum Master on strategic technical projects
Knowledge, skills, and abilities
- Ability to lead as a player/coach by balancing people leadership, coaching, delegation, prioritization, direct technical contribution, delivery execution, operational support, independent ownership, and collaborative team engagement.
- Broad technical knowledge of business applications, cloud and SaaS platforms, integrations, APIs, identity and access, data flows, automation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support.
- Ability to translate defined business priorities and roadmaps into practical requirements, delivery plans, trade-off decisions, dependencies, and execution decisions across multiple concurrent complex initiatives.
- Strong analytical, data-informed decision-making, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to evaluate alternatives, apply data analytics methods and tools, design practical solutions, troubleshoot issues, and guide implementation and support.
- Working knowledge of AI-enabled solutions, intelligent automation, and emerging technologies, including appropriate oversight, responsible use, privacy, security, monitoring, and support considerations.
- Knowledge of governance, standards, secure delivery, change and release management, documentation, service management, business continuity, compliance, controls, reusable patterns, risk practices, continuous improvement, process simplification, automation, and business process re-engineering.
- Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and consultative communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts, influence peers and cross-functional partners, lead geographically diverse or matrixed teams, manage conflict constructively, and remain effective under pressure.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, sit and use hands to operate a computer keyboard. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Additional Requirements/Skills
- Comply, understand, and support corporate safety initiatives to ensure a safe work environment
- Ability and willingness to abide by Granite’s Code of Conduct on a daily basis
- Valid driver’s license and ability to drive
- Overnight travel, to various corporate locations or other sites, may be required
Our Benefits at a Glance:
Building tomorrow starts with you, and Granite knows that you can excel only if we support you in and out of the workplace. That is why we offer a broad benefits package that includes paid holidays, sick leave, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, flexible spending plans, as well as special programs for musculoskeletal health, mental wellness, and more.
Salaried employees may choose from two PPO medical plans through Anthem BlueCross, including our most popular plan, for which 100% of the premium is paid by Granite for eligible employees and dependents. Employees can also opt into a Health Savings Account (HSA) or a Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
As part of our investment in your future outside of the workplace, Granite provides a 100% match on the first 6% of eligible compensation that salaried employees defer into their 401(k) plans, which vests immediately.
Benefits may vary for positions located outside of the continental United States.
Base Salary Range:
$127,843.00 - $191,763.00Pay may vary based upon relevant experience, skills, location, and education among other factors.
About Granite Construction Incorporated
Granite Construction Incorporated is a member of the S&P 400 Index and is the parent company of Granite Construction Company, one of the nation's largest heavy civil contractors and construction materials producers. Granite is a Drug-Free Workplace and Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. We consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws.
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Notice to Staffing Agencies
Granite Construction, Inc. and its subsidiaries ("Granite") will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Granite, including unsolicited resumes sent to a Granite mailing address, fax machine or email address, directly to Granite employees, or to Granite's resume database will be considered Granite property. Granite will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. Granite will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees. Agencies must obtain advance written approval from Granite's recruiting function to submit resumes, and then only in conjunction with a valid fully-executed contract for service and in response to a specific job opening. Granite will not pay a fee to any Agency that does not have such agreement in place. Agency agreements will only be valid if in writing and signed by Granite's Human Resources Representative or his/ her designee. No other Granite employee is authorized to bind Granite to any agreement regarding the placement of candidates by Agencies.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Engineering
- PMI CAPM or PMP certification
- Certified ScrumMaster certification
- At least 8 years of solution architecture experience delivering high-security, high-availability technical solutions
- At least 5 years of experience delivering cloud-based solutions
- Demonstrated experience serving as a Scrum Master on strategic technical projects
- Valid driver's license and ability to drive
Granite Construction Incorporated Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Granite Construction Incorporated and has not been reviewed or approved by Granite Construction Incorporated.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is broad with medical, dental, vision, preventive care, HSA/FSA options, and mental-health support. Employer contributions are described as above typical construction-industry levels, lowering the out-of-pocket burden.
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Retirement Support — Eligible salaried employees are offered a strong 401(k) match with immediate vesting, alongside retirement savings through an employee stock-purchase plan. These features position long-term savings as a notable part of the package.
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Affordable Benefits — Employees are said to pay a smaller share of healthcare costs than common industry benchmarks. Combined with wellness incentives and pharmacy benefits, the overall cost-value balance is favorable.
Granite Construction Incorporated Insights
What We Do
Granite Construction is a major U.S. heavy civil contractor and construction materials producer. Since 1922, it has built infrastructure projects including highways, bridges, dams, rail, and power facilities. The company provides construction services across mining, earthwork, water and sewer, power, tunneling, rail, highway, and bridge work, while also producing gravel, ready-mix, recycled asphalt products, and asphalt concrete. It serves public and private clients throughout the Americas.
