Sr. Solutions Architect

The Dolese Promise is built on a foundation of integrity driven by our passion for quality, safety, and reliability. We are one of Oklahoma's most respected employee-owned companies because of our people and our values. We strongly believe in positively impacting our communities through our products, our actions, and our financial support.

Being a part of the Dolese team affords a unique opportunity to join an organization that rewards its owners through profit sharing. Our employees are one of our most important resources, which is why we promise to deliver.

Dolese Delivers:

• Stable Foundation
• Treat with Respect
• Safe Environments
• Employee Focus

JOB SUMMARY


Grow your career with a company built on Safety, Integrity, Teamwork, and Stewardship. As a Sr. Solutions Architect at Dolese, you are responsible for defining and guiding the end-to-end technology architecture that supports the organization's strategic and operational goals. This role takes a holistic view across applications, infrastructure, data, integration, and cloud services, ensuring that all technology solutions are scalable, secure, interoperable, and aligned with enterprise standards. The Solutions Architect collaborates closely with business leaders, developers, infrastructure and data teams, and vendors to design and deliver solutions that balance innovation, performance, maintainability, and cost. This position serves as a trusted bridge between business capability needs and the technical solutions that enable them, spanning the full technology stack rather than any single domain.

WHY JOIN US

We are people, building communities from the ground up. For our employees, we are focused on building careers. Joining our team means:

• Stability & Legacy : Be part of a company with more than a century of success, operational excellence, and a strong commitment to our employees.
• Growth Opportunities : Expand your architectural expertise through end-to-end solution design across applications, cloud, data, and integration platforms, influencing modernization efforts, and strengthening impact as a trusted architectural advisor supporting enterprise-scale solutions.
• Impactful Work : Your work will directly shape how technology supports Dolese's business by translating business needs into secure, scalable solutions that improve system reliability, drive innovation, and support long-term enterprise modernization.
• Supportive Culture : Our employees support one another and our customers through our service values: Champion Kindness, Incite Enthusiasm, Build Relationships, and Provide Innovative Solutions . We value collaboration, integrity, and continuous improvement.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES/ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Solution Architecture & Design

• Develop and maintain the enterprise solution architecture, spanning applications, infrastructure, cloud services, data, and integration layers, including standards, patterns, and reference models.
• Design end-to-end solutions ensuring scalability, performance, interoperability, and resilience across application, infrastructure, data, and cloud platforms.
• Evaluate new technologies, frameworks, and architectural approaches, including cloud-native, AI/ML, and platform solutions, to support enterprise modernization initiatives.
• Lead architecture reviews and proof-of-concepts to validate solution designs before full-scale implementation.

Technology Portfolio & Lifecycle Management

• Support and contribute to the health, roadmap, and lifecycle of the enterprise technology portfolio, including custom applications, COTS solutions, cloud platforms, and shared infrastructure services.
• Ensure all solution and technology decisions are aligned with strategic business objectives, enterprise architecture principles, and long-term technology goals.
• Provide architectural guidance for refactoring, modernization, and retirement decisions across legacy applications, platforms, and infrastructure, with a focus on reducing technical debt and enabling cloud-first delivery.
• Maintain a living technology roadmap that communicates the current state, target state, and transition plan for enterprise solutions.

Integration & Data Architecture

• Architect integration solutions leveraging APIs, messaging platforms, and ETL/ELT pipelines that connect applications, data platforms, and cloud services seamlessly.
• Ensure data flows are secure, consistent, and aligned with enterprise data governance standards across all solution domains.
• Partner with data engineering, analytics, and infrastructure teams to support unified data models, shared services, and AI/ML-ready data architecture.
• Define integration patterns and standards that enable composable, loosely coupled solution design across the enterprise.

Security, Compliance & Quality

• Embed security-by-design principles across all solution domains, including application, infrastructure, data, and integration layers.
• Ensure solution designs align with compliance, regulatory, and cybersecurity requirements throughout the architecture and delivery lifecycle.
• Define non-functional requirements (NFRs) such as resiliency, availability, monitoring, and observability as core architectural concerns for all solutions.
• Conduct architecture risk assessments and ensure appropriate controls and mitigation strategies are incorporated into solution designs.

Collaboration, Leadership & Solution Governance

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across development, infrastructure, data, and integration teams, promoting architectural standards and engineering best practices.
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand capabilities needed, translate requirements into comprehensive architected solutions, and ensure delivered solutions meet functional and non-functional expectations.
• Establish and govern solution architecture review processes to ensure new initiatives comply with enterprise standards before design and build begin.
• Serve as a key decision-maker in vendor evaluations, RFPs, and solution selection, ensuring choices align with enterprise architecture strategy.
• Communicate architectural vision, tradeoffs, and roadmap clearly to both technical teams and executive stakeholders.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience required; Master's degree in a related field preferred.
• Minimum of seven (7) years of experience across technology disciplines, including application development, infrastructure, cloud, or enterprise architecture, with demonstrated breadth across multiple solution domains.
• Demonstrated expertise in designing and delivering enterprise-scale solutions that span multiple technology domains, including application, infrastructure, data, and integration required.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as C#, Java, Python, or JavaScript required.
• Experience with relational and non-relational data architectures required.
• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman, etc.), DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and platform engineering preferred.
• Azure certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) or Azure Enterprise Data Analyst (DP-500) preferred.
• Experience leading modernization initiatives such as cloud migrations, legacy system refactoring, or ERP implementations preferred.
• Exposure to AI/ML platform integration and designing infrastructure that supports intelligent application capabilities preferred.
• Experience in industries such as mining, manufacturing, or energy preferred.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Strong knowledge of modern solution technologies, including cloud platforms (Azure preferred), microservices and containerization, API design (REST, GraphQL), integration platforms and middleware, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and cloud-native services.
• Solid understanding of security frameworks, zero-trust principles, and best practices.
• Demonstrates strategic and systems thinking to design cohesive, future-ready solutions across multiple technology domains.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage at both executive and engineering levels.
• Ability to balance technical depth with business needs and translate complex architecture into clear value.
• Demonstrates strong problem-solving and analytical capabilities, applying a pragmatic approach to architectural tradeoffs.
• Demonstrates collaborative leadership and influence by driving alignment across cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Maintains a continuous learning orientation with active engagement in emerging cloud, AI, and platform technologies.
• This position is hybrid, with a mix of onsite and remote work. The schedule generally includes regular onsite collaboration and flexibility for remote work based on role and business needs.
• May involve occasional after-hours support during major releases, platform migrations, or critical incidents.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to lift, push, or pull objects of various dimensions up to 30 lbs. of weight occasionally.
• Ability to perform primarily sedentary work and tolerate prolonged standing, sitting, and walking.
• Ability to perform repetitive motions such as typing and data entry using a keyboard and mouse.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively.

EEO Statement:

We consider applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, genetics, marital or protected veteran status. Dolese provides 'reasonable accommodations' to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the American with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local laws. If you need a reasonable accommodation in order to complete the application process please contact the Human Resources Director.