Solutions Architect

Koch; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Flexible spending and health savings

Life insurance

ADD

Disability

Retirement

Paid vacation/time off

Educational assistance

Infertility assistance

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Job summary

Koch is seeking a Solutions Architect for the MADICS team, located in Plano, TX. You will shape enterprise services, leveraging broad architectural expertise across networking, compute, identity, and datacenter technologies to serve as a trusted partner to business and technical teams.

You will lead cross-functional teams, define solutions with enterprise architects, and drive digital transformation across Koch businesses.

Qualifications

• Experience in architecture or senior engineering roles.
• Experience in multiple technical domains (network, server, storage, endpoint, identity).
• Experience leading teams delivering complex solutions across domains.
• Experience partnering with project managers to define scope, estimates, and timelines.
• Experience collaborating on global projects.

Responsibilities

• Architect innovative solutions delivering business outcomes across multiple technical domains.
• Collaborate with project managers and business IT stakeholders to understand problems and develop plans.
• Manage relationships, escalations, proposals, and due diligence with business partners on MADICS projects.
• Work on tight timelines to meet delivery dates.
• Encourage curiosity and use experimental discovery to test ideas.
• Publish reference architectures, frameworks, and patterns in the MADICS repository.
• Mentor peers and support their growth within Koch Technologies.
• Strengthen knowledge network across Koch Technologies and operating companies.
• Help define and implement the MADICS strategy.
• Drive innovative business solutions and digital transformation.
• Be a technical point of contact for blockers faced by PMs and SMEs.

Skills

Architecture

Multi-domain experience

Team leadership

Project scoping & estimates

Global projects

Job description

Your Job

As a Solutions Architect on our Merger, Acquisition, Divestiture, Integration, Closure, and Sites (MADICS) team, you will shape how Koch businesses deliver frictionless, timely, and value-driven services across the enterprise to help achieve business outcomes. In this role, you will leverage broad architectural expertise and strong business acumen, along with deep knowledge of networking, compute, identity, M365, endpoint, and datacenter technologies, to serve as a trusted consulting partner to both business and technical teams. Working closely with Enterprise Architects, domain experts, and product owners, you will translate complex challenges into innovative, actionable solutions that create value for Koch businesses. This position requires strong leadership, the ability to quickly integrate with the team, and the capability to take ownership of complex projects soon after joining the organization.

Our Team

The Koch Technologies MADICS team is responsible for empowering Koch businesses to deliver acquisition/divestiture transactions, business integrations into shared-services information technology, build and move sites and close sites. Our team continually strives to transform service delivery by means of people, process, and technology.

We work as a global team, seek ways to break down silos, and leverage individual and team aptitudes to create a competitive advantage and exceptional value for our customers. We collaborate to help each other succeed in a cycle of mutual benefit.

Location

Location: This role can be located in Wichita, KS / Atlanta, GA / Plano, TX / Green Bay, WI and requires an in-office presence with flexibility.

This role is not eligible for VISA sponsorship.

What You Will Do

• Architect innovative solutions that deliver business outcomes in collaboration with many different technical domains and functional teams.
• Partner with project managers and business IT stakeholders to understand and develop plans to address the business problem(s) to be solved.
• Manage relationships, escalations, create proposals and perform due diligence with business partners on new and in-flight MADICS projects.
• Work on tight timelines with a sense of urgency to meet defined delivery dates.
• Lean into curiosity and new ideas. Use experimental discovery to prove or disprove those ideas.
• Engage, challenge, and create reference architectures, frameworks, and patterns for Koch Technologies. Publish artifacts in a central MADICS architecture repository.
• Act as a mentor, providing ongoing coaching and mentoring to peers, enabling their continued growth.
• Continually strengthen your knowledge network across Koch Technologies and the operating companies. Collaborate and partner to leverage your comparative advantage across the organization.
• Help define and implement our MADICS strategy.
• Drive innovative business solutions and digital transformation.
• Be a technical point of contact for any blockers faced by PMs, technical SMEs.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Demonstrated experience in architecture or senior engineering roles.
• Experience in multiple technical domains (network, server, storage, endpoint, identity, etc.)
• Experience in leading teams through delivering complex solutions across several technical domains
• Experience partnering with project managers to build project scope, build time/cost estimates and meet objectives and timelines
• Experience in working collaboratively on global projects

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience in leading MADICS-like projects
• Use of AI to speed delivery and solve problems related to MADICS work
• Strong experience driving strategic initiatives, collaborating with stakeholders, and driving value-based conversations
• Stakeholder management experience

Compensation

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.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers.

Who We Are

Koch creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics and many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs about 120,000 employees across the globe.

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.

• medical
• dental
• vision
• flexible spending and health savings accounts
• life insurance
• ADD
• disability
• retirement
• paid vacation/time off
• educational assistance
• infertility assistance
• paid parental leave
• 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.