Solutions Architect - Digital Engineering Platforms

About the role

The IT capability is a vital component of the KES strategy to improve business performance through the application of technology and to profitably transform our business. Our team operates with a startup mentality—working as an integrated group with the Engineering, Operations, Commercial, and Finance teams to design, build, and scale innovative solutions that transform KES work processes.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product 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.
• Considers 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 solutioning process (Software Engineering, Application Review/Selection, Security, Networking, Cloud Infrastructure, etc.).
• Lead the development and alignment of architecture strategies across the engineering & design organization.
• 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 (PLM, Engineering (CAD tools ~ Autodesk, Solidworks, etc), and Product Planning platforms, AWS, Microsoft, Salesforce, SaaS vendors)
• Strong knowledge of CAD, PLM and engineering data management ecosystems
• Experience architecting and supporting engineering and product development environments
• 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 solutions
• 5+ years’ experience in Information Technology

Qualifications

• Experience in supporting discrete engineering & manufacturing
• Experience with conversation & action AI agent platforms in solving business problems.
• Understanding 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 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)
• Experience with enterprise architecture platforms ~ LeanIX, HOPEX, BizzDesign

Skills

• Experience in supporting discrete engineering & manufacturing
• Experience with conversation & action AI agent platforms in solving business problems.
• Understanding 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 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)
• Experience with enterprise architecture platforms ~ LeanIX, HOPEX, BizzDesign

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
• Life Insurance
• Disability
• Retail
• ADD
• Paid Vacation/Time Off
• Retirement
• Education Assistance
• Infertility Assistance
• Paid Parental Leave
• Adoption Assistance

Pay

Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Full-time