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Your Job We 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 Team The 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.com • MyMolex • Salesforce • Customer Facing APIs • Digital Product Experience • Customer Journey Platforms • Digital Search • Product Information Management • Digital Content Management • Marketing Technology We 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 Do • Serve 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 development • 5+ years leading enterprise-scale digital or application integration initiatives • Experience designing integrations across multiple enterprise applications • Strong understanding of API-first architecture and modern integration patterns • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) • Experience designing scalable web application architectures • Experience working with databases, data modeling, and enterprise application integrations • Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts for business stakeholders • Strong organizational skills with demonstrated experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives • Ability to influence without direct authority across multiple organizations Key Competencies • Enterprise Architecture • Digital Platform Integration • Cloud Architecture • API Design & Integration • Content Management Systems (CMS) • Product Information Management (PIM) • Digital Customer Experience • SEO & AI Search Optimization • Identity & Authentication • Application Modernization • Technical Due Diligence • Acquisition Integration • Program Leadership • Technical Roadmapping • Cross-functional Leadership What Will Put You Ahead • Experience integrating acquired businesses into enterprise digital ecosystems • Experience with customer-facing digital platforms • Experience with Salesforce, Adobe Experience Manager (or other enterprise CMS platforms) • Experience with Product Information Management solutions such as Salsify • Experience building or consuming enterprise APIs • Experience designing cloud-native architectures • Knowledge of digital analytics and customer journey platforms • Understanding of search optimization (SEO) and emerging AI Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) • Experience working within manufacturing or industrial technology organizations • Bilingual (English/Spanish) is a plus For 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 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 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 , aquí , or tu ). #LI-MS6 #remote

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We 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 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.
Serve 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 development
5+ years leading enterprise-scale digital or application integration initiatives
Experience designing integrations across multiple enterprise applications

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Bilingual (English/Spanish) is a plus
For 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.

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