Solutions Architect

About the role

The Solutions Architect at Guardian Glass's Auburn Hills, MI site is responsible for developing, proposing, and reviewing new Enterprise software solutions that align with Guardian’s architectural principles and company vision. This role involves close collaboration with business partners and IT groups to deliver holistic solution designs.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end solutions supporting Guardian business capabilities that adhere to Guardian and Koch’s architectural principles
• Ensure solutions are aligned with defined business strategies and identify opportunities, challenges, and migration roadmaps to support strategies
• Discovery, optioning and documenting tradeoffs for governance and prioritization
• Present and communicate solution direction and architecture decisions to non-technical and executive audiences, facilitating alignment and decision-making
• Create and review technical specifications and validate design/development specifications with technical development/engineering teams
• Maintain ownership/responsibility for maintenance of roadmaps within Guardian’s Application Portfolio
• Learn and develop new skills and stay current on new and emerging technologies
• Educate stakeholders, including technical teams, on best practices to influence the development of known-good solution patterns

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a Solutions Architect (or comparable role)
• Knowledge of enterprise ERP platforms, preferably Infor M3, and ability to align solutions to enterprise application ecosystems
• Understanding of software design architectural principles and security best practices
• Understanding of enterprise integration patterns, event-driven architecture, microservices and cloud native architecture (AWS preferred)
• Experience working in Agile product teams and collaborating across product/engineering/delivery
• Excellent communication, stakeholder influence, and leadership without direct authority

What Will Put You Ahead

• Supply Chain domain knowledge
• Familiarity with Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or Zachman, and experience applying standards/principles pragmatically
• Portfolio-level roadmap ownership and governance experience
• Experience shaping and evaluating demand and investment cases (e.g., DMF/business cases)
• Experience driving reference architectures, standards, and reusable solution patterns
• Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD practices from an architect’s perspective
• Experience designing AI/automation solutions
• Proficiency in a high-level programming language, Python preferred