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IT Architect

IT Architect

Koch Engineered Solutions • Houston, Texas
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

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 businessand 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, includinginhands-on design and implementation
  • Experience with multiple infrastructure technology pillars (endpoint, mobility, compute, storage, network, security, etc.) and their management tools
  • Experience conducting research, experimenting, and deploying emerging technologies and trends, standards, and products
  • Practical Experience with Cloud Architecture design (AWS or Azure)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; adept at tailoring messages for technical, executive, and nontechnical audiences

What Will Put You Ahead

  • Experience with Operational Technology (OT), manufacturing systems, and Plant/Process Control Networks (PCN)
  • Familiarity with cloud-native architectures on AWS or Azure

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.

Hiring Philosophy

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

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

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