Corporate Solutions Lead

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General Summary

This position provides hands-on leadership for a team responsible for delivering and supporting business technology solutions. The role balances people leadership, technical direction, delivery execution, and stakeholder partnership to ensure assigned solutions are reliable, secure, well-governed, and aligned with enterprise and business priorities. The Solutions Lead helps translate defined business needs and roadmaps into practical technology outcomes while building team capability, improving delivery practices, and driving measurable value.

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 - $191,763.00

Pay 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.