IT - Technology Architect | Architecture | Architecture - ALL
koch industriesHouston (TX)
IT - Technology Architect | Architecture | Architecture - ALL
Posted today
koch industriesHouston (TX)
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About the role
Location(s): Houston, Texas | Scottsdale, Arizona | Tulsa, Oklahoma | Wichita, Kansas
Company: Koch Engineered Solutions
Career Field: Information Systems & Technology
Job Number:
192245 Apply: JobKoch Engineered Solutions is seeking an IT Architect to help identify, evaluate, and advance infrastructure technologies that support business objectives. In this role, you will be a partner with business and technology teams to assess opportunities, explore emerging solutions, and recommend practical approaches that balance business value, risk, and operational needs. You'll work closely with stakeholders to help shape infrastructure direction while supporting both near-term initiatives and long-term technology planning. This position is an in-office role in Wichita, KS, Tulsa, OK, Houston, TX, or Scottsdale, AZ.
What You Will Do:
Partner with business and IT stakeholders to understand challenges, goals, and opportunities, translating them into practical infrastructure recommendations. Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends across cloud, networking, security, automation, endpoint, and platform technologies to determine business applicability. Assess technology alternatives, evaluate tradeoffs, and develop recommendations based on business requirements, risk, cost, and operational impact. Contribute to the development and evolution of infrastructure standards, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps. Collaborate with application, platform, and infrastructure teams to support solution design across on-premises, hybrid, virtualized, and cloud environments. Develop architecture diagrams, technical recommendations, and supporting documentation that enable alignment and consistent execution across teams.
Who You Are:
- (Basic Qualifications)
- Experience in IT architecture, infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, or related technical roles involving solution design and implementation.
- Experience with multiple infrastructure technology domains, such as cloud, compute, storage, networking, endpoint management, mobility, or security.
- Experience researching, evaluating, testing, or implementing emerging technologies, products, or industry trends.
- Experience designing, implementing, or supporting cloud solutions within AWS or Azure environments.
- Experience communicating technical recommendations, technology assessments, or architecture decisions to technical and business stakeholders.
What Will Put You Ahead:
- Experience supporting Operational Technology (OT), manufacturing systems, or Plant/Process Control Networks (PCN).Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and services within AWS or Azure.
- This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.
- Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. Hiring Philosophy
- All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds.
Who We Are:
As a Koch company, Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is a dynamic network of businesses that work together to create an ecosystem of domain expertise to increase operational efficiency, improve safety, reduce waste, and reduce emissions. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company. 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. 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.
Equal Opportunities: Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.
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