IT Architect

Your Job Koch Engineered Solutions is seeking an IT Architect to bridge the gap between business needs and technical capabilities. This role provides technical leadership and consulting across the organization, from supporting strategic decision-making down to project planning. The IT Architect will be responsible for defining and executing on the technology visions and strategies, including developing related roadmaps. Strong business acumen and technology expertise are essential for facilitating effective communication, collaboration, and delivering technology solutions to KES businesses and other technology teams. What You Will Do

• As part of the infrastructure capability , be accountable for the evolution of current platforms and the evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies
• Partner closely with business and IT stakeholders to understand business strategies, challenges, and outcomes, and translate them into scalable, secure, and pragmatic infrastructure architectures.
• Continuously evaluate emerging infrastructure technologies and industry trends, including cloud, networking, security, automation, and platform services, and lead the assessment, alignment, and adoption of capabilities that deliver business value.
• Act as a thought partner to the business, helping determine when technologies should be incubated internally, adopted from partners, or deferred based on value, risk, and readiness.
• Define, maintain , and evolve infrastructure standards, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps, ensuring alignment with both near
• term needs and long
• term strategy.
• Lead architecture alternatives analysis, clearly framing problems and opportunities, evaluating tradeoffs, and making recommendations grounded in business requirements, cost, risk, and operational impact.
• Collaborate with application and platform teams to guide infrastructure design for on
• premises, hybrid, virtualized, and cloud environments.
• Develop and communicate clear architecture artifacts, including diagrams, reference models, design patterns, and decision records, to enable consistent execution across teams.
• Establish and refine governance models, work processes, and operational runbooks that balance innovation with reliability, security, and operational excellence.
• Serve as a senior escalation point for complex infrastructure issues, while driving long
• term solutions that reduce recurrence and improve system resilience.
• Influence and align cross
• functional teams and external partners without direct authority, using technical credibility and business context to drive outcomes.
• Participate in architecture and technology advisory forums, advocating for customer and business needs and assessing the impact of proposed changes across the enterprise. Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
• IT architecture or Senior Systems Engineering experience, including in hands-on design .

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