Enterprise Digital Experience Architect

Your JobWe are seeking an Enterprise Digital Experience Architect to provide architectural leadership across the Molex Digital Customer Experience ecosystem and help shape how our digital capabilities evolve as Molex grows.This role serves as a cross-platform architect across Molex's customer-facing digital landscape, establishing architectural best practices, identifying opportunities for simplification and reuse, and ensuring that individual digital capabilities work together as a coherent enterprise ecosystem.A major focus of the role will be supporting Molex's growth through acquisition. The architect will lead the digital architecture strategy for bringing acquired businesses, brands, products, content, applications, and customer experiences into the Molex ecosystem—developing repeatable approaches that accelerate integration while preserving business continuity and customer experience.The successful candidate will combine broad enterprise architecture experience with strong knowledge of modern digital platforms, cloud technologies, APIs, data, identity, search, content, and customer experience architecture. This individual does not need to be the deepest technical expert in every platform; rather, they must be able to understand the complete digital landscape, establish sound architectural patterns, challenge technical approaches, and bring the right platform and engineering experts together to deliver scalable solutions.This position partners closely with Marketing, Product Management, Sales, Enterprise Architecture, Product Data, Engineering, and IT to ensure Digital CX investments align to a cohesive target-state architecture.Our TeamThe Enterprise Digital Experience Architect is part of the Global Digital Customer Experience organization.Our team is responsible for the digital platforms that power the Molex customer experience, including:Molex.comMyMolexSalesforceCustomer Facing APIsDigital Product ExperienceCustomer Journey PlatformsDigital SearchProduct Information ManagementDigital Content ManagementMarketing TechnologyWe are focused on creating a best-in-class digital experience while building scalable enterprise capabilities that support continued growth through acquisition and innovation.What You Will DoServe as a lead architect across the Molex Digital Customer Experience ecosystem, providing architectural guidance across customer-facing digital capabilities.Define and evolve the target-state Digital CX architecture, identifying how platforms, applications, data, APIs, identity, search, and customer experiences should work together.Establish architectural principles, reference patterns, and best practices that guide Digital CX teams and initiatives.Lead digital architecture strategy for newly acquired businesses, from technical due diligence through long-term integration.Develop acquisition integration roadmaps spanning Day 1, transition, migration, consolidation, and target-state adoption.Assess acquired websites, applications, product data, content, customer accounts, identity models, digital assets, search equity, and supporting technology.Define reusable approaches for migrating acquired businesses into Molex capabilities including Molex.com, MyMolex, Salesforce, product information platforms, APIs, search, identity, analytics, and marketing technology.Facilitate architecture decisions across individual Digital CX capabilities, ensuring local platform decisions support broader enterprise architecture and customer experience objectives.Identify opportunities to simplify architecture, eliminate redundant capabilities, reduce technical debt, and increase reuse.Champion API-first, composable, event-driven, and cloud-based architecture where appropriate.Partner with platform architects, engineering teams, and Enterprise Architecture to evaluate solution designs and resolve cross-platform architectural challenges.Lead technical due diligence for acquisitions, identifying risks, dependencies, modernization opportunities, and integration complexity.Develop reusable Digital CX acquisition playbooks and architectural patterns that reduce the time and effort required for future acquisitions.Ensure migration strategies appropriately address content, product data, customer identity, authentication, digital assets, SEO equity, analytics, and AI Answer Engine Optimization (AEO).Communicate architecture strategy, decisions, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations to executive and cross-functional stakeholders.Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related discipline (or equivalent experience)10+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or enterprise application development5+ years leading enterprise-scale digital or application integration initiativesExperience designing integrations across multiple enterprise applicationsStrong understanding of API-first architecture and modern integration patternsExperience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud)Experience designing scalable web application architecturesExperience working with databases, data modeling, and enterprise application integrationsExcellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts for business stakeholdersStrong organizational skills with demonstrated experience leading complex cross-functional initiativesAbility to influence without direct authority across multiple organizationsKey CompetenciesEnterprise ArchitectureDigital Platform IntegrationCloud ArchitectureAPI Design & IntegrationContent Management Systems (CMS)Product Information Management (PIM)Digital Customer ExperienceSEO & AI Search OptimizationIdentity & AuthenticationApplication ModernizationTechnical Due DiligenceAcquisition IntegrationProgram LeadershipTechnical RoadmappingCross-functional LeadershipWhat Will Put You AheadExperience integrating acquired businesses into enterprise digital ecosystemsExperience with customer-facing digital platformsExperience with Salesforce, Adobe Experience Manager (or other enterprise CMS platforms)Experience with Product Information Management solutions such as SalsifyExperience building or consuming enterprise APIsExperience designing cloud-native architecturesKnowledge of digital analytics and customer journey platformsUnderstanding of search optimization (SEO) and emerging AI Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)Experience working within manufacturing or industrial technology organizationsBilingual (English/Spanish) is a plusFor this role, we anticipate paying $180,000 - $205,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.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