Job description

Your Job We are seeking an experienced and strategic Solutions Architect to help shape how technology is designed and delivered across Molex. This role is about improving how technical decisions are made, reducing risk, and ensuring we build solutions that scale, perform, and last. You will work across sites and teams to bring clarity to complex problems, guide critical decisions, and help others operate more effectively without creating dependency. Our Team Molex is a leading provider of electronic solutions, committed to innovation and excellence. Our team is dedicated to delivering high-quality products and services to our customers worldwide. Join us and be part of a dynamic and forward-thinking organization. What You Will Do • Help teams clearly frame problems before jumping to solutions • Guide architectural decisions across network, infrastructure, cloud, and security • Ensure tradeoffs are understood across cost, risk, performance, and scalability • Step in on decisions with enterprise impact or long-term consequences • Enable engineers, site IT/OT, and product teams to make strong decisions independently • Reduce unnecessary escalation through clear guidance and reusable patterns • Teach how to think, not just what to do • Engage on high-impact or high-risk initiatives • Ensure solutions align with enterprise direction and standards • Manage vendor relationships and support contract and service discussions What good looks like • Teams make better decisions without constant architect involvement • Fewer late-stage escalations and redesigns • Clear, practical guidance that teams actually use • Strong alignment across regions without slowing execution Qualifications • Strong background in network, infrastructure, and security • Experience operating in complex, global environments • Ability to evaluate tradeoffs and make balanced, practical decisions • Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences • Ability to influence without direct authority What Will Put You Ahead • Strong problem-solving skills with a bias for action • Comfortable operating under pressure and managing multiple priorities • Exposure to manufacturing, plant environments, or OT/IT integrations • Experience defining standards, patterns, or reference architecture • Experience working with external partners and vendors 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, Molex is a leading global provider of electronic solutions, driving innovation and enabling progress across industries including aerospace and defense, transportation, medical, industrial, data communications, and consumer electronics. Our people, technologies, and manufacturing expertise help customers solve complex challenges through advanced connectivity, signal transmission, and electronic solutions that power the world's most critical applications. Aerospace & Defense Solutions (ADS) Molex's Aerospace & Defense Solutions (ADS) Division delivers mission-critical connectivity, signal technologies, and electronic solutions designed for the most demanding environments. Drawing on decades of engineering excellence and innovation, we support aerospace, defense, space, and other high-reliability markets where performance is essential and failure is not an option. From enabling next-generation communications and data transfer to providing rugged interconnect and electronic solutions for mission-critical systems, our technologies help customers advance capabilities across air, land, sea, and space. At ADS, we combine deep technical expertise, operational excellence, and a culture of principled entrepreneurship to create value for our customers, communities, and one another. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense through innovation, reliability, and purpose-driven solutions. 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 ). In order to comply with U.S. export control laws and regulations, this position requires applicants to either provide proof of U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent resident status or be eligible to receive an export authorization (a license) under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations and/or the Export Administration Regulations.

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You will work across sites and teams to bring clarity to complex problems, guide critical decisions, and help others operate more effectively without creating dependency.
Help teams clearly frame problems before jumping to solutions
Guide architectural decisions across network, infrastructure, cloud, and security
Ensure tradeoffs are understood across cost, risk, performance, and scalability
Step in on decisions with enterprise impact or long-term consequences
Enable engineers, site IT/OT, and product teams to make strong decisions independently
Reduce unnecessary escalation through clear guidance and reusable patterns
Teach how to think, not just what to do
Engage on high-impact or high-risk initiatives
Ensure solutions align with enterprise direction and standards
Manage vendor relationships and support contract and service discussions
What good looks like
Teams make better decisions without constant architect involvement
Fewer late-stage escalations and redesigns
Clear, practical guidance that teams actually use
Strong alignment across regions without slowing execution
Strong background in network, infrastructure, and security
Experience operating in complex, global environments
Ability to evaluate tradeoffs and make balanced, practical decisions
Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences
Ability to influence without direct authority
What Will Put You Ahead
Strong problem-solving skills with a bias for action
Comfortable operating under pressure and managing multiple priorities

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Parental Leave