Your Job
The Koch Global Services Cloud & Applications team is hiring an Architect Capability leader. In this role, you will own the continuous strategy and development of our Architecture capability across both Cloud Platform and Application Services. You are expected to build trusted partnerships with Koch Businesses and enterprise architecture to ensure we are making long-term investments to profitably drive innovation and creative destruction across our enabling platforms. You will work closely with your architect team and product leaders on roadmap prioritization, designing standards and best practices across the organization, and ensuring appropriate design implementation. This is a team of influential leaders in the organization who highly values mentorship and empowerment and are passionate about the continued development and maturation of our developer enablement vision. We are seeking a leader who has the same passion to enrich our developer vision and platform excellence.
Our Team
The Koch Global Services Cloud & Applications team delivers cloud platforms and enabling solutions that empower our Koch businesses to design, build, and deploy the technology necessary for transforming their businesses. We manage several enterprise platforms including public cloud, integrations, developer enablement, contact centers, data visualization, and enterprise knowledge. Our applications team also provides technical consulting, develops custom applications, and provides support for leveraged enterprise applications.
What You Will Do
- Your most important responsibility is your investment in developing each architect to contribute to the overall vision and advancement of the architect capability.
- A strong leader in this role will coach and empower each architect to drive long-term strategic opportunities in their focus areas. Building mindsets of partnership, experimentation, and collaboration to foster the republic of science and value creation.
- Create a sense of responsibility and excitement to research market and industry to advise and influence across our areas of expertise.
- You are responsible that each architect is helping to influence roadmaps and designs that drive product excellence and consumer excitement.
- An effective leader in this capability will build partnerships across Koch (CTO, Strategic leaders, EAs) being a thought leader, learning, strategizing and engaging our team in continued partnership.
- Lead the architect team with integrity, confidence, humility, and empowerment. Promote a culture of transformation, excellence, and product stewardship.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Experience influencing and leading a cross-functional team (formally or informally)
- Experience coaching and mentoring others (formally or informally)
- Proven ability to effectively communicate a shared vision and strategize on execution.
- Experience with teams working in product-centered agile method.
- Exposure to teams working with software architecture and practices (SLDC, Agile, DevSecOps,)
- Experience working with global and remote teams.
What Will Put You Ahead
- Formal experience leading senior developers or architects.
- Experience with software architecture and practices (SLDC, Agile, DevSecOps,).
- Experience in cloud infrastructure, cloud-native application development, container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
- Experience with the AWS cloud platform.
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 here.
Who We Are
As a Koch company, Koch Global Services (KGS) creates solutions spanning technology, human resources, finance, project management and anything else our businesses need. With locations in India, Mexico, Poland and the United States, our employees have the opportunity to make a global impact.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
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
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