Solutions Architect

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific's Software Engineering & Integration (SE&I) team is looking for a Solutions Architect to join the team. In this role, you will collaborate with SE&I engineers and architects globally to create engineering standards that maximize the division of labor, allowing engineers to focus on their core strengths. This approach aims to boost efficiency and deliver higher returns through innovative technology solutions. The Solutions Architect will also develop technical and architectural roadmaps to modernize our legacy technology and drive transformational change. Additionally, you will work with multifunctional teams to provide solutioning services and create reference architectures based on successful solutions to address business challenges.

Location: This is a hybrid role based out of our GP Headquarters in Atlanta, GA.

Our Team

GP's Software Engineering & Integration team's core competency is designing, building, delivering, and maintaining custom software solutions. We recently initiated our transformation journey, creating functions and capabilities that enable engineers to have major impacts on GP's business performance. We seek to build functionality once, so engineers are encouraged to re-use their peers' work and modify then scale it to meet new use cases. We focus on delivering profitable business outcomes by partnering with business analysts, delivery leaders, and quality engineers to build the right solution at the right speed.

What You Will Do

• Participate and self-drive thought leadership in overall application and integration strategy efforts while partnering with IT leaders across the company.
• Define a menu of tech-stacks and engineering standards while understanding how cloud architecture impacts cost to run.
• Understanding the architecture of our applications; developing roadmaps that proactively addresses technical debt and modernizing our infrastructure that is aligned with our engineering standards.
• Conduct experiments to prove out modern technical solutions.
• Develop reference architecture, design patterns, and boilerplates that provide guidelines and best practices for engineers, thus, freeing them to focus on delivering value.
• Partner with the engineers by helping them implement these best practices and drive standardization of technologies and tools to achieve enterprise simplification and re-use.
• Participate in the talent selection process for architects within the team.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience as a Solutions Architect, championing a new enterprise middleware platform within the organization; developing strategies, best practices, repeatable patterns, and other engineering standards
• Leadership experience influencing C-suite, other key stakeholders, and/or engineers
• Hands on experience and expertise in multiple middleware platforms utilizing various integration patterns such as event-driven, hub-and-spoke, publish-subscribe, and streaming.
• Understanding of security best practices and compliance requirements, including knowledge of encryption, authentication, authorization, and data privacy
• Understanding of security standards including SAML, XACML, MASSL, OATH, WSTrust, OAUTH, OpenID Connect

What Will Put You Ahead

• Proficient in at least 2 of the following middleware platforms: Mulesoft, SAP-CPI, Infor Ion, or another industry-leading middleware platform
• Proficient in at least 2 of the following API Management tools: AWS Gateway, Apigee, Kong, or another industry-leading management tool
• Proficient in at least 2 of the following Streaming Platforms: Kafka, Kinesis, NATS, or another industry streaming solution
• Proficient in the following programming languages: Python and GoLang
• Experience with various industrial protocols used for communication and data transfer in industrial environments, including MQTT, OPC-UA, MODBUS, etc.
• Experience in agile methodologies
• Experience with EDI platforms (Sterling Commerce, OpenText, etc.) and standards (ANSI X12, EDIFACT, etc.)
• Background in restful API development using C# or similar language

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 and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day - to make everyday products even better.

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, aqui, or tu).

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