Solutions Architect - Digital Engineering Platforms

Koch; Tulsa (OK); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible spending and health savings accounts

Retirement plan

Paid vacation and time off

Educational assistance

Job summary

Koch in Tulsa, Oklahoma seeks a Solutions Architect to enhance business performance through innovative technology applications. The role involves collaborating across teams, developing architectural blueprints, and leveraging cloud-based tools like AWS and Salesforce. With over 5 years of IT experience required, candidates should excel in communicating technical solutions. Benefits include medical, dental, and retirement plans, along with educational assistance. This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Information Technology.
• Experience with modern cloud-based platforms and tools.
• Proven track record of communicating technology effectively.

Responsibilities

• Recommend technology solutions for business transformation.
• Lead the technical solutioning process to build a detailed blueprint.
• Partner with finance to build economic models for strategic solutions.

Skills

Cloud-based platforms expertise

Communication skills

Partnering with customers

Tools

AWS

Salesforce

Autodesk

Solidworks

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure DevOps

Job description

Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is currently looking for a Solutions 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.

This role is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product 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.


• Considers 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 the development and alignment of architecture strategies across the engineering & design organization.


• 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.

Qualifications

• Experience with modern cloud-based platforms and tools (PLM, Engineering (CAD tools: Autodesk, Solidworks, etc.), Product Planning platforms, AWS, Microsoft, Salesforce, SaaS vendors).


• 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 solutions.


• 5+ years’ experience in Information Technology.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience in supporting discrete engineering & manufacturing.


• Experience with conversation & action AI agent platforms in solving business problems.


• Understanding the fundamental architecture of GenAI.


• Technical experience with serverless cloud technology tools and services (S3, Blobs, SaaS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Event Bridge, DynamoDB, API Gateway, etc.).


• Experience with event driven architectures and microservices.


• Experience with analytical concepts (Data lakes, Graph Database Technology, Data Warehousing) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, Fargate, AKS).


• Experience with DevOps methodologies, processes and tools (CI/CD, GitHub, Lean, Azure DevOps).


• Experience with enterprise architecture platforms: LeanIX, HOPEX, BizzDesign.

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Benefits may vary by geographic region.

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.