Enterprise Architect

Georgia Pacific Corp.; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific is seeking an Enterprise Architect to shape end-to-end technology solutions across business units and capabilities. You will connect business priorities to technology decisions spanning applications, data, integration, cloud, security, and AI.

In collaboration with business and technology leaders, you will translate strategy into practical designs, roadmaps, reusable patterns, and implementation guidance.

Qualifications

• Experience leading architecture and design of complex, business-critical technology solutions across multiple domains.
• Translating business strategy into technical designs, roadmaps, and implementation guidance.
• Partnering with engineering teams to guide solutions through production readiness and deployment.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture for high-value initiatives from discovery to production readiness.
• Translate strategy into practical designs, roadmaps, and reusable patterns.
• Shape AI architecture strategy, governance, and patterns for generative AI and data grounding.
• Ensure solutions are secure, observable, and maintainable across platforms.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud architecture

AI/ML integration

AWS

CI/CD

Tools

AWS

CI/CD tooling

Kubernetes

Job description

Your Job

As an Enterprise Architect, you will be a senior individual contributor shaping end-to-end technology solutions for the business segments and capabilities you support. You will connect business priorities to technology decisions across applications, data, integration, cloud and infrastructure, security, operations, and AI.

Working with business and technology leaders, architects, and engineering teams, you will translate strategy into practical designs, roadmaps, reusable patterns, and implementation guidance. You will also help evolve the standards, governance, and operating models that enable Georgia-Pacific to scale secure, reliable, cost-effective, and AI-ready solutions.

Our Team

The Georgia Pacific Data Platform team builds, manages, & operates centralized products that support Georgia Pacific's Business Units and IT. These products enable data to be ingested, stored, processed, governed, managed, presented, and consumed consistently across the enterprise.

What You Will Do

• Lead architecture for complex, high-value initiatives from discovery through implementation, production readiness, and lifecycle evolution.
• Partner with business and technology leaders to identify opportunities, evaluate solution options, and connect technology investments to measurable business outcomes.
• Design cohesive solutions across business processes, applications, integration, data, analytics, AI, cloud, infrastructure, security, identity, user experience, and operations.
• Shape enterprise AI architecture strategy and practical patterns for generative AI, agentic workflows, data grounding, evaluation, monitoring, and human oversight.
• Guide teams in selecting the simplest viable build path, from self-service and reusable skills to data products and durable applications, based on value, risk, scale, integration depth, and lifecycle cost.
• Develop reusable architectures, standards, decision frameworks, and implementation guidance that teams can adopt through shared platforms, templates, and automation.
• Lead architecture reviews and document decisions, tradeoffs, risks, exceptions, and technical debt, adapting standards when legitimate business needs require it.
• Partner with engineering, platform, and operations teams to ensure solutions are secure, resilient, observable, maintainable, and supportable.
• Identify opportunities to reduce duplication and improve reuse, measure the effectiveness of architecture practices, and build capabilities through coaching and knowledge sharing.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience leading the architecture and design of complex, business-critical technology solutions across multiple technology domains.
• Experience translating business strategy and requirements into technical designs, roadmaps, and actionable implementation guidance.
• Experience partnering directly with engineering teams, reviewing implementation details, and guiding solutions through production readiness.
• Practical experience with generative AI or agentic solution architecture, including enterprise data grounding, integration, evaluation, security, and operationalization.
• Strong understanding of integration patterns, distributed systems, cloud architecture, data platforms, and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience designing solutions that address scalability, reliability, interoperability, security, observability, maintainability, and cost effectiveness.
• Ability to influence across organizational boundaries and communicate recommendations and tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Deep experience with AWS cloud services, cloud‑native architecture, reference patterns, guardrails, and governance.
• Experience building AI‑enabled and data‑driven solutions on AWS using AI/ML services, data platforms, automation, and platform engineering.
• Experience establishing shared technology practices across teams, including federated delivery, builder enablement, and platform‑based development.
• Experience with enterprise AI platforms, lakehouse and analytics platforms, knowledge or semantic layers, data governance, and data quality.
• Familiarity with responsible AI controls, model risk, privacy, cybersecurity, and human‑in‑the‑loop design.
• Experience with product‑oriented delivery, Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and production readiness.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

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.

Who We Are

Georgia‑Pacific (GP) is among the world's leading manufacturers of bath tissue, paper towels, napkins, tableware, paper‑based packaging, office papers, cellulose, specialty fibers, nonwoven fabrics, building products, and related chemicals. You may recognize consumer brands like Angel Soft, Brawny, and Dixie on retail shelves and enMotion towels, Compact bath tissue, and SmartStock cutlery dispensers when you are away from home. As a Koch company, we create long‑term value using resources efficiently to provide innovative products and solutions that meet the needs of customers and society while operating in a manner that is environmentally and socially responsible and economically sound. Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, GP employs approximately 35,000 people.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).