Enterprise Architect

About the role

The IT capability at Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is a critical component of our strategy to enhance business performance through the application of technology and to transform our business profitably. Our team operates with a startup mentality, integrating closely with Engineering, Operations, Commercial, and Finance teams to design, build, and scale innovative solutions that transform KES work processes.

Responsibilities

• Partner with 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.
• Leverage expertise in multiple technical domains as part of 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

• 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.
• 5+ years’ experience in Information Technology.

Qualifications

• Experience in supporting discrete engineering & manufacturing.
• Understanding of the fundamental architecture of GenAI.
• 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).

Skills

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

5+ years’ experience in Information Technology

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
• Life Insurance
• AD&D
• Disability
• Retail
• Paid Vacation/Time Off
• Education Assistance
• May also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance

Pay

Commensurate with experience

Schedule

N/A