Koch Industries

Data & AI Solutions Architect

Koch Industries • $125K — $150K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in Data & AI architecture.
  • Expertise in translating business outcomes into scalable architectures.
  • Proficient in designing end-to-end solutions using AWS, Snowflake, or similar platforms.
  • Strong understanding of AI and AI-DLC practices for solution delivery.
  • Experience in creating architectural artifacts and prototypes to validate decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with stakeholders to translate business needs into data and AI solutions.
  • Develop architecture standards that enhance consistency and speed.
  • Align and influence decisions within teams across various domains.
  • Design comprehensive data and AI solutions across multiple areas.
  • Implement cloud-native and event-driven design principles.
  • Identify AI opportunities to enhance business operations and decision-making.
  • Champion responsible AI practices to ensure security and governance.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
  • Life insurance, ADD, and disability coverage.
  • Retirement plan options along with paid vacation/time off.
  • Educational assistance and various leave benefits, including parental leave.
Full Job Description
Your Job

Koch Technology Data Solutions (KTDS) is seeking a Data & AI Solutions Architect to shape the future of data, analytics, automation, and AI across Koch.

In this role, you will partner with business leaders, engineers, product teams, and subject matter experts to solve complex business challenges. You will translate business outcomes into scalable solutions, guide technology decisions, establish reusable patterns, and accelerate delivery through modern Data & AI architectures.
The ideal candidate is an AI-native architect who uses AI as both a solution capability and a core part of how they work. You rapidly explore options, validate ideas through prototypes, and determine where AI, automation, software, data products, or process improvements create the greatest value.

Location: This role can be located in Wichita, KS / Atlanta, GA / Plano, TX and requires an in-office presence with flexibility.

This role is not eligible for VISA sponsorship.

What You Will Do

  • Partner with stakeholders to understand business outcomes and translate them into scalable Data & AI architectures.
  • Develop solution designs, architecture standards, and implementation guidance that promote consistency, reuse, and delivery speed.
  • Build alignment and influence decisions across business, product, engineering, security, governance, and platform teams.
  • Design end-to-end data and AI solutions spanning data platforms, integrations, analytics, automation, governance, and AI capabilities.
  • Apply cloud-native, API-first, event-driven, and domain-oriented design principles.
  • Identify opportunities where AI can improve decision-making, productivity, operations, and business outcomes.
  • Establish architecture patterns, standards, and guardrails that enable secure, scalable, resilient, and supportable solutions.
  • Apply Harness Engineering principles to embed governance and standards into delivery workflows.
  • Leverage AI and AI-DLC practices to accelerate solution exploration, architecture, planning, documentation, and delivery while maintaining ownership of recommendations.
  • Build and evaluate prototypes, reference implementations, agentic workflows, and technical spikes to validate approaches and reduce risk.
  • Champion responsible AI practices, including security, privacy, governance, observability, evaluation, and human oversight.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Experience translating business outcomes into scalable Data & AI architectures and influencing technical direction across teams.
  • Experience designing end-to-end Data & AI solutions using cloud, data, and AI platforms such as AWS, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, or similar technologies.
  • Experience advancing platform adoption through product management, developer enablement, or adoption metrics.
  • Experience using AI and AI-DLC practices to accelerate solution design, planning, delivery, and decision-making.
  • Demonstrated ability to create architecture artifacts and build prototypes, reference implementations, or technical evaluations that validate decisions and reduce delivery risk.
  • Demonstrated understanding of architecture and responsible AI principles, including security, privacy, governance, observability, resiliency, and supportability; paired with strong stakeholder management and influence skills.


What Will Put You Ahead

  • Experience defining and scaling enterprise Data & AI platform strategies, operating models, and shared capabilities across multiple domains.
  • Experience applying modern architecture principles, including cloud-native, API-first, event-driven, and domain-oriented design, as well as AI-enabled workflows, generative AI, agentic AI, and RAG solutions.
  • Experience using ontologies, knowledge graphs, semantic layers, or knowledge-based architectures.
  • Experience scaling AI-assisted engineering practices that improve productivity, quality, reliability, or delivery speed.
  • Hands-on experience building or operating Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers or similar standards for connecting AI agents to enterprise systems.
  • Experience mentoring architects and technical resources to improve architectural decision-making and consistency.


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 .

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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About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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