Technical Architect - Erlanger, KY

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Job Title: Technical Architect - Erlanger, KY
Location: Erlanger, KY, South United States, USA

Company: Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM)
Industry Sector: Agribusiness
Industry Type: Input Retail, Cooperative and Related Crop Services
Job Type: Full Time

Job Description: Job Description

Technical Architect - Erlanger, KY

This is a full-time, exempt position.

The Technical Architect for Applications will combine expertise in technology design and development across modern application, integration, data, and security architectures. This position requires experience in using front-end and back-end development technologies and frameworks. The Technical Architect for Applications support defining architecture standards, developing solution architectures, and governing architecture submissions.

This is an Architect-level position within ADM's Enterprise Architecture team, supporting ADM's Cloud Center of Excellence. It requires communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to work with detail-level IT engineers, developers, and architects.

Job Responsibilities

Lead the technical design of application solutions, including cloud native solutions
Take accountability for solution requirement definitions, conceptual, and high- and low-level design artifact generation
Support ADM's emerging Cloud CoE
Lead reviews of solutions to audit against design requirements
Research, experiment, and prototype new cloud application services.
Help maintain and develop technical standards
Manage adherence to defined architecture standards throughout the Application development lifecycle
Provide oversight and coaching to developers as part of the Architecture Services Organization
Provide subject matter expertise to design, develop, and implement technical architecture in alignment with Enterprise Architecture's direction and standards
Maintain knowledge of industry trends and utilize this knowledge to educate both IT and the business on opportunities to build better target architectures that support and drive business decisions
Support IT Enterprise governance functions (RFI's, vendor risk assessments, etc...)

Job Requirements

7+ years of IT experience
5+ Years of building solutions using modern application design patterns including serverless applications, containerized applications, SOA applications, web service applications, and RESTful patterned applications
5+ years of IT technical design experience overall (either exclusively or across applications, data, cloud infrastructure, networks, or security)
5+ Years of Application development experience using Microsoft development platforms
5+ Years of solution technical design involving Microsoft Azure, including both high-level solution design, and detailed technical design
Ability to generate conceptual and high level architecture design artifacts
Experience conducting design and architecture reviews
Understanding of network architecture
Understanding of security architecture and identity management
Experience using modern integration architectures
Experience developing cloud solutions using Azure services such as App Service, Azure Functions, API Management, Application Gateway, Logic Apps, Container Apps, and Azure Service Bus
Preferred: Azure Solution Architect Certification
Experience in software development using languages such as C#, Java, or Python
Experience with Containerization using Docker and orchestration platforms
Experience with Source Code Management tools such as Git, GitHub, SVN, Gitlab
Experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as SQL Server, Cosmos DB, or similar experience
Strong interpersonal collaboration skills and ability to work across technology domains
Strong verbal skills and ability to communicate both upward and down
Strong technical design skills

Excited about this role but don't think you meet every requirement listed? We encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this role or another one of our openings.

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Job Post Date: 09/10/25