Job Summary:
Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is looking for a Solutions Architect to join their global IT capability. This role involves engaging with IT and business teams to drive solution design for transformation initiatives, ensuring architecture best practices are applied.
Responsibilities:
โข 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.
โข Considers the enterprise picture as part of solution design to produce architectural blueprints consistent with IT technical vision and strategy
โข Leverage expertise in multiple technical domains as part of solutioning process (Software Engineering, Application Review/Selection, Security, Networking, Cloud Infrastructure, etc.)
โข Lead the development and alignment of architecture strategies across the engineering & design organization.
โข Experimentation - Identify and experiment with solutions to solve problems new to the organization
โข Execute on initiatives as appropriate, not just a โBox Drawingโ role
โข Partner with finance to build economic โBetโ models for strategic solutions to determine a value range
Qualifications:
Required:
โข Experience with modern cloud-based platforms and tools (PLM, Engineering (CAD tools : Autodesk, Solidworks, etc), and Product Planning platforms, AWS, Microsoft, Salesforce, SaaS vendors)
โข Proven experience communicating technology in both execution detail and broad concepts to various audiences
โข Demonstrated capability partnering with customers to understand business and operating models to develop proposals for technical solutions
โข 5+ yearsโ experience in Information Technology
Preferred:
โข Experience in supporting discrete engineering & manufacturing
โข Experience with conversation & action AI agent platforms in solving business problems.
โข Understanding the fundamental architecture of GenAI
โข Technical experience with serverless cloud technology tools and services (for example: S3, Blobs, SaaS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Event Bridge, DynamoDB, API Gateway, etc.)
โข Experience with event driven architectures and microservices
โข Experience with analytical concepts (Data lakes, Graph Database Technology, Data Warehousing)
โข Experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, Fargate, AKS)
โข Experience with DevOps methodologies, processes and tools (CI/CD, GitHub, Lean, Azure DevOps)
โข Experience with enterprise architecture platforms : LeanIX, HOPEX, BizzDesign
Company:
Based in Wichita, Kansas, Koch is one of the largest private companies in America. Founded in 1940, the company is headquartered in Wichita, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.