Principal Solution Architect

KBX Logistics, a global leader in transportation and technology-driven freight management, is seeking a Principal Solution Architect (Data & AI) to lead the architecture of our Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) and evolve it into an AI-enabled data platform.

About the role

This is a hands-on role for someone with deep AWS solution architecture expertise and a builder's mindset. You will evaluate, design, and implement AI capabilities that improve how users interact with enterprise data. While prior hands-on AI implementation experience is valuable, we recognize the rapid evolution of AI technologies and seek someone who can shape KBX's long-term AI architecture strategy.

Our Team

The KBX DataOps team builds and supports enterprise data capabilities in AWS, enabling business teams to access trusted data, improve decision-making, and scale analytics. We collaborate across business, technology, governance, cloud, and security teams to deliver reliable data products and modern platform capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the architecture of the Enterprise Data Platform, including integration patterns, governance controls, and platform capabilities to support analytics, automation, AI, and agent-based use cases.
• Lead solution architecture and hands-on delivery of scalable data platform capabilities, such as self-service access patterns, APIs, data products, metadata services, and AI-enabled experiences.
• Translate business, data, and AI opportunities into production-ready architecture patterns that balance scalability, security, maintainability, and speed to value.
• Build foundational platform capabilities, including metadata management, semantic models, orchestration frameworks, secure access patterns, observability, and governance services for analytics, automation, and AI workloads.
• Serve as the hands-on architectural lead for the team's AWS-native platform architecture, owning design decisions and contributing directly to implementation.
• Modernize data pipelines to reduce redundancy, control costs, and improve reliability and observability.
• Codify reusable architecture patterns (Terraform) and mentor data engineers to scale successful patterns across initiatives and projects.
• Contribute to architecture review processes as the solution architecture lead.

Requirements

• Experience evaluating, designing, maintaining, or implementing AI/GenAI capabilities within enterprise data and technology environments.
• Experience designing solutions using AWS technologies such as Glue, S3, Redshift, Lambda, Step Functions, and IAM roles and policies.
• Exposure to applying GenAI/LLM patterns over enterprise data.
• Experience applying solution architecture fundamentals: RBAC, data lineage, DR/HA, modular design, and cost optimization.
• Experience influencing architecture and architectural strategy across the organization at various levels.

Qualifications

The following experiences will put you ahead:

• Implementing Model Context Protocol (MCP) or comparable AI-to-data integration patterns.
• Building enterprise AI solutions using LLMs, copilots, agents, or retrieval-based architectures.
• Designing AI infrastructure on AWS or other cloud platforms.
• Developing AI governance, security, and operating patterns.
• Building semantic, metadata, or orchestration layers that enable AI-based data access.
• Evaluating emerging AI technologies and translating them into scalable enterprise architecture patterns.
• Designing layered data architectures across cloud platforms, including immutable raw-data retention, standardized transformation layers, and curated analytics or semantic-serving layers.
• Partnering with IT Security teams on IAM and secure data access pattern initiatives.
• Mentoring data engineers and establishing reusable architecture standards and patterns that scale across teams.

Who We Are

KBX Logistics, a Koch company, is a global leader in transportation, offering technology-driven capabilities across all modes of managed freight and transportation asset management. We leverage decades of experience and data-driven insights to create competitive advantages for our customers through innovative technology and mutually beneficial partnerships.

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. Benefits may include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Life insurance, ADD, and disability coverage
• Retirement plans
• Paid vacation and time off
• Educational assistance
• Infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance (where eligible)

Specific eligibility criteria are outlined in the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy, or guideline, and benefits may vary by geographic region.

Pay

Compensation is determined by available market data and considers each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about our compensation philosophy.