Solutions Architect - Digital Engineering Platforms

About the role

The IT capability at Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is integral to our strategy to enhance business performance through technology and to transform our operations profitably. Our Solutions Architect team collaborates closely with Engineering, Operations, Commercial, and Finance teams to deliver innovative solutions that streamline our processes.

Responsibilities

• Engage with Product teams to recommend and implement technology solutions for organizational transformations.
• Lead the technical solutioning process to create detailed blueprints for technology solutions.
• Collaborate with the enterprise to design solutions that align with IT technical vision and strategy.
• Leverage expertise in multiple technical domains to support the engineering and product development environments.
• Develop and align architecture strategies across the engineering and design organization.
• Experiment with new solutions to address emerging business challenges and execute on strategic initiatives.
• Work with finance to build economic models for strategic solutions to assess their value.

Requirements

• Experience with modern cloud-based platforms and tools such as PLM, CAD (Autodesk, Solidworks), and Product Planning platforms, AWS, Microsoft, Salesforce, SaaS vendors.
• Strong knowledge of CAD, PLM, and engineering data management ecosystems.
• Proven experience in architecting and supporting engineering and product development environments.
• Ability to communicate technology effectively to various audiences, from technical details to broader concepts.
• Experience partnering with customers to understand business and operating models and develop technical solutions.
• 5+ years of experience in Information Technology.

Qualifications

• Experience in supporting discrete engineering and manufacturing.
• Experience with conversational and action AI agent platforms.
• Understanding of the fundamental architecture of Generative AI (GenAI).
• Technical experience with serverless cloud technology tools and services (S3, Blobs, SaaS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Event Bridge, DynamoDB, API Gateway, etc.).
• Experience with event-driven architectures and microservices.
• Knowledge of 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, Azure DevOps).
• Experience with enterprise architecture platforms (LeanIX, HOPEX, BizzDesign).

Skills

• Experience with modern cloud-based platforms and tools.
• Strong knowledge of CAD, PLM, and engineering data management ecosystems.
• Proven experience in architecting and supporting engineering and product development environments.
• Ability to communicate technology effectively to various audiences.
• Experience partnering with customers to understand business and operating models.
• Technical experience with serverless cloud technology tools and services.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and microservices.
• Knowledge of analytical concepts and container technologies.
• Experience with enterprise architecture platforms.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
• Life insurance, disability, and retirement plans.
• Paid vacation/time off.
• Education assistance.
• Infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance.

Pay

Compensation details are confidential and based on market data. For specific details, refer to the Summary Plan Description, policy, or guideline.

Schedule

Details on the schedule are not specified in the job posting.