Job Summary:
Guardian Industries is a leading manufacturer of glass products, seeking a Solutions Architect at their Auburn Hills, MI site. The role involves developing and proposing enterprise software solutions, ensuring alignment with architectural principles, and collaborating with various stakeholders to deliver holistic solutions.
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, both native to current Guardian platforms (i.e. Infor M3, Salesforce, Coupa, Kinaxis, etc.) and new emerging technologies and platforms
• Educate stakeholders, including technical teams, on best practices to influence the development of known-good solution patterns
Qualifications:
Required:
• 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
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or at any time in the future. This position is not eligible for work visa sponsorship.
Preferred:
• Supply Chain domain knowledge
• Familiarity with Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or Zachman, and experience applying standards/principle 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
Company:
Guardian Industries is a provider of building materials, plastic coatings, and prefabricated glass products. It is a sub-organization of Koch, Inc.. Founded in 1932, the company is headquartered in Auburn Hills, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.