Sr. IT Architect

Your Job

Flint Hills Resources is seeking a Sr. IT Architect to join our team in Wichita, KS. In this role, you will apply established IT technologies, standards, and reference architectures across on-premise, SaaS, and cloud environments to meet business-driven demands. You will partner closely with business users, product, engineering, cybersecurity, and infrastructure teams to deliver secure, scalable, and cost-effective solutions that align with enterprise standards and long-term business goals. Success in this role means delivering reliable, repeatable, and secure solutions by consistently applying known technology patterns and making sound architectural tradeoff decisions.

What You Will Do

Solution Architecture

- Apply established architecture patterns and reference architectures to business initiatives across application, infrastructure, identity, and integration domains

- Create technical design documents including diagrams, process flows, risk assessments, and analyses

- Analyze existing applications to identify & document configurations, integrations, identity flows, dependencies, and modernization opportunities

- Partner with product teams to refactor or extend solutions using approved standards rather than introducing unnecessary complexity

- Collaborate with business stakeholders to define functional requirements and value-aligned solutions

- Conduct alternatives analysis with tradeoffs, requirements alignment, and impact assessments

- Contribute to repeatable cloud, on-prem, and hybrid reference architectures, design patterns, and standards

- Partner with Cybersecurity and internal teams to share and advance the Zero Trust strategy & implementation across products and processes

Cloud Platform Architecture

- Collaborate on designing and maintaining cloud landing zones, including identity, network, security, governance, and access controls

- Collaborate on design & implementation of cloud guardrails using AWS Config, security baselines, and IaC technologies

- Recommend cloud-native services (AWS), security tools, automation platforms, and hybrid connectivity solutions

- Guide product & engineering teams on automation, CI/CD, monitoring, and operational best practices

- Ensure cloud environments follow best practices for security, resiliency, cost optimization, and align with Zero Trust principles

Technical Leadership & Escalation

- Act as the senior technical escalation point for complex cloud, network, identity, endpoint, and enterprise issues

- Influence cross-functional teams and collaborate with external partners

- Mentor engineers and guide product and platform teams on architectural decisions

Project Planning & Delivery

- Lead and coordinate cross-functional implementation projects

- Develop detailed project plans covering dependencies, order-of-operations, infrastructure needs, risks, and success criteria

- Manage architectural decisions, assess technical impacts, and prioritize tasks based on risk and business value

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

- 5+ years of IT Architecture or Senior Systems Engineering experience, including hands-on design and implementation

- Experience with Windows or Linux Servers, Active Directory, DNS, Networking fundamentals

- Experience contributing to designing cloud architectures (AWS)

- Knowledge of hybrid integration patterns (APIs, eventing, networking, secure connectivity)

- Experience communicating technical concepts to both technical and nontechnical audiences

- Ability to be available for after-hours crisis response

- This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship

What Will Put You Ahead

- Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field

- Experience in cloud governance, landing zones, RBAC, policies, and subscription/account models

- Experience managing MSP relationships and SLAs

- Experience with Automation, IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation) and DevOps workflows

- Experience building Zero Trust and identity architecture programs

- Understanding of identity & access management platforms (AD/Entra, SSO/SAML/OAuth, IGA)

- Understanding of IT Security best practices, Zero Trust principles, and cloud security controls

- Familiarity with Operations Technology (OT) environments

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, Flint Hills Resources is an industry-leading refining company making the oil and transportation products that keep the world moving. We make a large supply of fuel for gas stations and airports in addition to transporting crude oil, natural gas liquids and refined products through 4,000+ miles of pipeline -delivering energy to farmers, manufacturers and families. Our team champions innovation and excellence to help power modern life.

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.

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. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here , aquí , or tu ).

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