Senior AI & Data Platform Architect (AWS)

KBX Logistics; Wichita (KS); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

KBX Logistics is seeking a Lead Solution Architect (Data & AI) to design and evolve the Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) on AWS, driving AI-enabled capabilities and data products across the organization. You will lead hands-on delivery, establish scalable patterns, and mentor engineers while shaping KBX's long-term AI and data strategy.

The role emphasizes cloud-first architecture, governance, cost optimization, and collaboration with business, governance, cloud, and security teams to deliver

Qualifications

• Experience evaluating, designing, maintaining, or implementing AI/GenAI capabilities within enterprise data and technology environments.
• Experience designing solutions using AWS technologies such as Glue, S3, Redshift, Lambda, Step Functions, and IAM roles and policies.
• Exposure to applying GenAI/LLM patterns over enterprise data
• Experience applying RBAC, data lineage, DR/HA, modular design, cost optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the architecture of the Enterprise Data Platform, including integration patterns, governance controls, and platform capabilities for analytics, automation, AI, and agent-based use cases.
• Lead solution architecture and hands-on delivery of scalable data platform capabilities, including self-service access patterns, APIs, data products, metadata services, and AI-enabled experiences.
• Translate business, data, and AI opportunities into production-ready architecture patterns that balance scalability, security, maintainability, and speed to value.
• Build foundational platform capabilities including metadata management, semantic models, orchestration frameworks, secure access patterns, observability, and governance services for analytics, automation, and AI workloads.
• Serve as hands-on architectural lead for AWS-native platform architecture, owning design decisions and contributing to implementation
• Continuously modernize data pipelines to reduce redundancy, control cost, and improve reliability and observability.
• Codify reusable architecture patterns (Terraform) and mentor data engineers to scale patterns across initiatives/projects.
• Serve as the solution architecture contributor in architecture review processes

Skills

AWS architecture

AI strategy

Data platform design

Leadership & mentoring

Tools

AWS Glue

AWS S3

Amazon Redshift

AWS Lambda

AWS Step Functions

IAM

Job description

KBX Logistics is seeking a Lead Solution Architect (Data & AI) to design and evolve the Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) on AWS, driving AI-enabled capabilities and data products across the organization. You will lead hands-on delivery, establish scalable patterns, and mentor engineers while shaping KBX's long-term AI and data strategy.

The role emphasizes cloud-first architecture, governance, cost optimization, and collaboration with business, governance, cloud, and security teams to deliver