Solutions Architect - Digital Engineering Platforms

Koch Business Solutions, LP; Tulsa (OK); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Paid vacation

Educational assistance

Parental leave

Adoption assistance

Job summary

Koch Engineered Solutions is seeking a Solutions Architect to join our global IT capability. You will lead architecture, integration, and modernization across CAD, PLM, and related product development platforms.

The role emphasizes a business-focused approach, risk-aware decision making, and collaboration with product teams to shape technology strategy.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience in Information Technology.
• Experience with modern cloud-based platforms and CAD tools (Autodesk, Solidworks, etc.).
• Ability to communicate technology to diverse audiences and stakeholders.
• Proven capability to develop proposals for technical solutions with business context.
• Experience with architecture and solution design across multiple domains.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product teams to recommend technology solutions and build detailed blueprints.
• Consider enterprise scope to align with IT vision and strategy.
• Leverage expertise across Software Engineering, Security, Networking, Cloud, and more.
• Lead architecture strategy alignment across engineering and design teams.
• Identify and experiment with new solutions to address business problems.
• Participate in initiatives beyond a basic box-drawing role.
• Collaborate with finance to build economic models for strategic solutions.

Skills

Cloud platforms

CAD tools

PLM

Engineering data management

Customer proposals

Communication to audiences

5+ years IT experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

ECS

Fargate

AKS

CI/CD tools

GitHub

Azure DevOps

LeanIX

HOPEX

BizzDesign

Job description

Your Job

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.

Our Team

A Solutions Architect engages with our IT and business teams to drive solution design for the organizations transformation initiatives and ensure that architecture best practices are 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.

This role is primarily focused on the architecture, integration, and modernization of KES's engineering technology ecosystem, including Autodesk, CAD, PLM, and related product development platforms.

What You Will Do

• 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.
• 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 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.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience with modern cloud-based platforms and tools (PLM, Engineering (CAD tools ~ Autodesk, Solidworks, etc), and Product Planning platforms, AWS, Microsoft, Salesforce, SaaS vendors).
• Strong knowledge of CAD, PLM and engineering data management ecosystems.
• Experience architecting and supporting engineering and product development environments.
• 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 (for example: 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) Experience with 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.

At Koch Companies

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. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

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. 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. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

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. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).