Enterprise Architect

This position can sit in Houston, TX, Tulsa, OK, or Wichita, KS, and will have travel as required. This position is not eligible for VISA Sponsorship.

Our Team

An Enterprise Architect engages with our IT and business teams to drive solution design for the organization's transformation initiatives and ensure that architecture best practices are part of the design. You must show a proven ability to manage complex requirements while understanding the appropriate risk profile of a project to determine the correct solution. Daily challenges will arise that require more soft skill expertise than technical expertise – meaning, you cannot rely on technical aptitude alone to be successful. You must realize and show the ability to understand the business direction, objectives, and parties involved to achieve the best outcome. A candidate who is a self-starter and looks to be proactive will be a great fit for this opportunity.

Responsibilities

• Partner with our IT Leaders, Solution Delivery, Product teams, and Data teams to recommend technology solutions for business transformation, then lead the technical solutioning process to build the detailed blueprint for how technology will solve the problem.
• Consider the enterprise picture as part of solution design to produce architectural blueprints consistent with IT technical vision and strategy.
• Leverage expertise in multiple technical domains as part of the solutioning process (Software Engineering, Application Review/Selection, Security, Networking, Cloud Infrastructure, etc.).
• Lead architecture review board -- development and alignment of architecture strategies across the KES organizations.
• Lead current state to future state architecture alternatives to business leaders describing marginal value and connect to achieving business outcomes.
• Experimentation - Identify and experiment with solutions to solve problems new to the organization.
• Execute on initiatives as appropriate, not just a “Box Drawing” role.
• Partner with finance to build economic “Bet” models for strategic solutions to determine a value range.

Requirements

• 5+ years’ experience in Information Technology.
• Experience with modern cloud-based platforms and tools (AWS, Microsoft, Salesforce, SaaS vendors).
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, microservices, analytical concepts, AI concepts, cloud technology & services.
• Proven experience communicating technology in both execution detail and broad concepts to various audiences.
• Demonstrated capability partnering with customers to understand business and operating models to develop proposals for technical architecture or process solutions.

Qualifications

What Will Put You Ahead:

• Experience in supporting discrete engineering & manufacturing.
• Experience with enterprise architecture platforms: HOPEX, BizzDesign, LeanIX.
• Understanding of the fundamental architecture of GenAI.
• Experience with conversation & action AI agent platforms.
• Technical experience with serverless cloud technology tools and services (for example: S3, Blobs, SaaS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Event Bridge, DynamoDB, API Gateway, etc.).
• Experience with PLM, Engineering (CAD tools), or Planning platforms.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and microservices.
• Experience with analytical concepts (Data lakes, Graph Database Technology, Data Warehousing).
• Experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, Fargate, AKS).
• Experience with DevOps methodologies, processes and tools (CI/CD, GitHub, Lean, Azure DevOps).

Pay

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes:

• Medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts.
• Life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement.
• Paid vacation/time off, educational assistance.
• May also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance.

Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy, or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.