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Position Summary Position Summary The Digital and IT Senior Technical Specialist leads the transformation of business vision into digital capabilities. The Digital and IT Senior Technical Specialist will leverage their comprehensive IT and business experience, developed across a broad technology portfolio scope, to lead the strategic vision and roadmap of highly secure and resilient technologies. The Infrastructure Solutions Architect is a senior technical leadership role responsible for establishing and maturing many of the core infrastructure architecture processes and standards for the organization including technical standards, and long-term technology strategy. This role serves as a core member of the Technical Design Authority (TDA) and plays a pivotal role in infrastructure portfolio management, new technology evaluation, vendor alignment, and strategic roadmap governance. This architect role will partner with core infrastructure pillars, security, sourcing/vendor management, and business stakeholders to ensure new and existing infrastructure capabilities are strategically aligned, financially justified, and operationally supportable. Responsibilities
Essential Functions: Leads the analysis and evaluation of transformational technologies to guide technology roadmaps including vendor management, statement of work development and budgetary input Responsible for global support of technical or business application solutions that span multiple business critical technologies or business functions Responsibility on a global basis to define priority across one or more key technology areas on a global basis Identifies and recommends technology solutions or improvements in areas outside of technology expertise Leads engagement with managed service relationships, ensure service level agreements are honored Accountable for implementing & making decisions on Parker values while fostering a safe environment IT life-cycle mgmt. methodologies, including design, development, testing, project mgmt. and change mgmt. Provides information to management identifying personnel, hardware and software needs to provide appropriate levels of systems and services within the corporation Demonstrated understanding of value requirement for technology deployment - Effectively communicates complex technical/business related issues to management and technical staff and adapt written/verbal/presentation material and style, depending on audience and environment
Is considered a thought leader across varying technologies and/or business processes, along with general, working knowledge in numerous areas outside of expertise Acts as champion of change, developing and implementing improvements to technology delivery processes Considered technology owner/subject matter expert for one or more key technology solutions on a global scale delivering value added business results Works at a Global / Group level to develop IT solutions to deliver against business goals Liaison to large business partner with Functional Stakeholders, third party and technical peers to drive solutions and complex programs Works with Department Manager/Leader to evaluate department resourcing needs Well-informed of broad business challenges in order to provide solutions that ensure timely and accurate delivery of services Demonstrates a high degree of emotional intelligence and organizational awareness. Maintains professional and strong relationships with business partners, contractors, and stakeholders Ability to travel as needed Available to provide after-hours technical support as needed
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
4-year University / College Degree and significant technical / business certifications. 10+ years' experience in Information Technology with experience in infrastructure architecture, engineering, or enterprise architecture roles. Demonstrated experience operating within a Technical Design Authority or Architecture Review Board. Deep knowledge across:
Hybrid cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP) Network, compute, storage, virtualization, identity, and security infrastructure Proven experience with portfolio rationalization, lifecycle management, and technology governance. Strong vendor management and strategic partner engagement experience. Excellent written and verbal communication and collaboration skills. Ability to maintain professional and strong relationships with business partners, contractors, and stakeholders. Demonstrate Agile methodologies and can apply those processes to everyday work. Experience in security best practices and compliance requirements for area of expertise.
Key Competencies
Strategic thinking & architectural governance Executive-level communication and reporting Data-driven portfolio analysis Cross-functional influence without authority Vendor & partner collaboration leadership
Success Metrics
Reduction in unsupported / non-standard technologies. Improved alignment between infrastructure investments and enterprise strategy. Increased reuse of existing platforms vs unnecessary net-new solutions. Clear, actionable infrastructure portfolio health reporting adopted by leadership. Measurable improvement in vendor roadmap alignment and innovation value realization.
Equal Employment Opportunity Parker is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Parker is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job related reasons regardless of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by law. However, U.S. Citizenship, Permanent Residency or other appropriate status is required for certain positions, in accord with U.S. import & export regulations.
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Parker Hannifin Corporation
$121,200.00 - $212,150.00 / yr
Feb 05, 2026