Enterprise Architect

Koch; Wichita (KS); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid vacation

Educational assistance

Job summary

Koch is seeking an Enterprise Architect to join its global IT capability in Wichita, KS. The role focuses on driving solution design and enhancing business performance through innovative technology. Ideal candidates are self-starters with 5+ years of IT experience and expertise in cloud-based platforms like AWS.

The position involves collaboration with IT and business teams to ensure best practices are followed in architecture design, making it vital to the firm's transformation initiatives.

Benefits include medical, dental, vision support, retirement plans, and educational assistance among others.

Qualifications

• Experience with modern cloud-based platforms and tools.
• Proven experience communicating technology concepts to various audiences.
• 5+ years in Information Technology with proven capability to partner with customers.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, microservices, and analytical concepts.

Responsibilities

• Partner with IT Leaders to recommend technology solutions for business transformation.
• Leverage expertise in multiple technical domains as part of solutioning process.
• Execute on initiatives appropriate to the role.
• Lead architecture review board for alignment across organizations.

Skills

Experience with modern cloud-based platforms

Event-driven architectures

Microservices

Communication of technology concepts

Understanding business and operating models

Education

5+ years experience in Information Technology

Tools

AWS

Microsoft

Salesforce

HOPEX

BizzDesign

LeanIX

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools

Job description

Overview

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.

Location and Travel

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.

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.
• Consider 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.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• 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 (e.g., 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) and with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, Fargate, AKS).
• Experience with DevOps methodologies, processes and tools (CI/CD, GitHub, Lean, Azure DevOps).

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.

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.