Senior Data & AI Platform Architect

Koch; Wichita (KS); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

KBX Logistics, part of the Koch network, seeks a Lead Solution Architect (Data & AI) to lead architecture for an Enterprise Data Platform in AWS, evolving it into an AI-enabled data platform. This hands-on role requires deep AWS expertise and the ability to design and implement AI capabilities across enterprise data.

You will guide the team in building scalable data platform capabilities, metadata services, and AI-enabled experiences while shaping KBX's long-term AI architecture strategy and

Qualifications

• Experience evaluating, designing, maintaining, or implementing AI/GenAI capabilities within enterprise data 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.
• Fundamentals of solution architecture: RBAC, data lineage, DR/HA, modular design, cost optimization.
• Influence architecture strategy across the organization at various levels.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the architecture of the Enterprise Data Platform, including integration patterns and governance controls.
• Lead solution architecture and hands-on delivery of scalable data platform capabilities, including APIs and data products.
• Translate business and AI opportunities into production-ready architecture patterns balancing scalability, security, and cost.
• Build metadata management, semantic models, orchestration frameworks, and governance services for analytics and AI workloads.
• Own design decisions as the hands-on AWS-native platform architect and contribute to implementation.
• Continuously modernize data pipelines to reduce redundancy, control cost, and improve reliability.
• Codify reusable architecture patterns (Terraform) and mentor data engineers to scale across initiatives.
• Serve as the solution architecture contributor in architecture review processes.

Skills

AWS solution architecture

GenAI integration

Data platform architecture

Mentoring data engineers

RBAC & data governance

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Job description

KBX Logistics, part of the Koch network, seeks a Lead Solution Architect (Data & AI) to lead architecture for an Enterprise Data Platform in AWS, evolving it into an AI-enabled data platform. This hands-on role requires deep AWS expertise and the ability to design and implement AI capabilities across enterprise data.

You will guide the team in building scalable data platform capabilities, metadata services, and AI-enabled experiences while shaping KBX's long-term AI architecture strategy and