Enterprise Architect

Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is currently looking for an Enterprise Architect to join our global Information Technology (IT) capability. 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.

This position can sit in Houston, TX, Tulsa, OK, or Wichita, KS, and will have travel as required. This position is not eligible for VISA Sponsorship.

Our Team

An Enterprise Architect engages with our IT and business teams to drive solution design for the organizations transformation initiatives and ensure that architecture best practices as part of design. You must show a proven ability to manage complex requirements while understanding the appropriate risk profile of a project to determine the correct solution. Daily challenges will arise that require more soft skill expertise than technical expertise - meaning, you cannot rely on technical aptitude alone to be successful. You must realize and show the ability to understand the business direction, objectives, and parties involved to get to the best outcome. A candidate who is a self-starter and looks to be proactive will be a great fit for this opportunity.

What You Will Do

• Partner with our 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.
• 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 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

Do you have experience in Requirements management?, * 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

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience in supporting discrete engineering & manufacturing
• Experience with enterprise architecture platforms ~ HOPEX, BizzDesign, LeanIX
• Understanding of the fundamental architecture of GenAI
• Experience with conversation & action AI agent platforms
• 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)

Pulled from the full job description

• Tuition reimbursement
• Paid parental leave
• AD&D insurance
• Parental leave
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Health savings account

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here ., As a Koch company, Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is a dynamic network of businesses that work together to create an ecosystem of domain expertise to increase operational efficiency, improve safety, reduce waste, and reduce emissions.

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