Your Job
KBX Technology Solutions, LLC, a provider of transportation technology to industry leaders, is seeking an Architect Leader. This role will lead a team of architects that are responsible for enhancing existing applications and for building applications using modern microservices architecture techniques. Responsibilities include partnering with the product teams and the architects to ensure the architects are providing frameworks and templates to enable product teams to provide the most connected transportation management system. The qualified candidate has a solid understanding of the organization(s) being supported and the architect roles in the business's mission and apply it to the application development and design.
Our Team
The Architecture Leader will own the Platform Architecture capability across KBX. The Architecture Leader partners with the KBX CTO on long-term strategy and developing a roadmap for the core components of the platform. The Architecture Leader works closely with the platform architects on roadmap refinement to prioritize, design and estimate roadmap items. The platform architecture team is responsible for providing design and direction to the other platform teams on proper implementation and execution of the roadmap items. This leader role must work collaboratively across KBX with platform and product teams to be successful.
What You Will Do
- Lead KBXT architecture capability by partnering with the CTO to develop a strategic roadmap for the platform team, collaborating with architects on design and execution of the roadmap, and serving as the Product manager for the architecture capabilities
- Work collaboratively with multiple product to ensure architectural roadmaps meet and exceed the needs of the business and provide KBX a strategic advantage in the market
- Communicate effectively through transparent and mutually beneficial conversations with all product teams that will be responsible for the technical implementation of architecture designs
- Strong peer leader across KBX ability to collaborate and communicate technology roadmaps and partner with product teams on priorities and expectations.
- Demonstrate strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principles and technology modernization
- Possess and maintain a strong working knowledge of multi-platform technical environments. Serve as a leader, consultant, and mentor in software, data, and cloud architecture concepts and implementation for the team
- Use market research, industry and competitive analysis and environmental factors in determining where the architects should focus their efforts
- Contribute to the prioritization of the product backlog to meet customer/user demand, value, and profit
- Leverage proven change management practices to ensure adoption of delivered capabilities and measure success
- Lead the architect team with integrity, confidence, humility, and empowerment. Promote a culture of change, excellence, and innovation
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Experience supervising, providing feedback and guiding a team of technical resources
- Experience leading a modern software delivery organization
- Experience driving and establishing software development delivery that operates in a product-centered agile method
- Experience developing roadmaps to align with business strategy
- Experience evaluating technologies and tools for future integration
- Legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship
What Will Put You Ahead
- Experience supervising, providing feedback and guiding a team of information technology architects
- Experience with software architecture and practices (design/development/deployment, Agile, DevSecOps, SCRUM)
- Experience in cloud infrastructure, cloud-native application development, container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
- Experience with the AWS cloud platform
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Hiring Philosophy
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Who We Are
As a Koch company, KBX provides the global transportation, logistics and technology solutions that help our customers deliver life’s essentials to people all over the world. We develop and deploy cutting-edge technologies to deliver better solutions for increasingly complex supply chains. Our team of tenacious problem-solvers are driven to create real, long-term value for our customers.
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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, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf