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/