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Architect jobs in Illinois are in steady demand, with a market concentrated in commercial design, institutional projects, and urban redevelopment work at levels from emerging professional through principal. Chicago anchors most of the hiring, with secondary activity in Peoria and Rockford, where firms like Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Gensler, and Perkins and Will maintain long-established Illinois offices and design studios. The specialties drawing the most consistent openings are sustainable design, healthcare facility planning, and mixed-use urban development. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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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 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 ).
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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 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 ).
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- Insurance2
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What Illinois Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in architect jobs across Illinois.
- Active Illinois Registered Architect license issued by the Illinois Design Professionals Licensing Board
- Professional degree in architecture from an NAAB-accredited program required
- Completion of the Architectural Experience Program and passage of all ARE divisions
- Proficiency in Revit, AutoCAD, and BIM workflow tools for project documentation
- Experience with Illinois Building Code and local municipal permitting processes
- Strong portfolio demonstrating schematic design through construction administration phases
Architect Jobs in Illinois: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become an architect in Illinois?
To become a licensed architect in Illinois you must earn a professional degree from an NAAB-accredited program, complete the Architectural Experience Program, and pass all divisions of the Architect Registration Examination. The Illinois Design Professionals Licensing Board, which oversees registration in the state, then issues your Registered Architect credential. Illinois also participates in reciprocity through NCARB, so architects licensed in other states can transfer their credentials without repeating the full exam sequence.
How much do architects make in Illinois?
Architects in Illinois earn a median of about $81,780 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $59,890 for the lowest 10% to over $130,670 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire architects in Illinois?
Employers hiring architects in Illinois right now include Capgemini, Perficient, and CVS Health, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Illinois's deep concentration of nationally recognized design firms and major public-sector clients in Chicago means openings appear across both private practice and institutional settings throughout the year.
Which Illinois cities have the most architect jobs?
Chicago, Illinois, and Bloomington lead Illinois for architect job openings. Chicago dominates because it is home to several of the largest architecture firms in the country alongside a continuous pipeline of civic, commercial, and residential projects, while smaller metros like Peoria and Rockford generate openings through healthcare system expansions and municipal infrastructure work with regional firms.
Are there remote architect jobs in Illinois?
Yes, but they're limited. Architecture is a largely hands-on discipline that requires site visits, client meetings, and coordination with contractors, so fully remote roles are uncommon. About 80% of architect openings tied to Illinois are remote or hybrid as of September 2026, and these arrangements tend to apply most to schematic design, rendering, and specifications work rather than project management or construction administration phases.
How can I get hired as an architect in Illinois with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry point is an intern architect or architectural associate role at a mid-size Chicago firm while you are still completing the Architectural Experience Program hours. Large Illinois healthcare systems such as Rush University Medical Center and Northwestern Medicine contract regularly with design firms that run structured internship pipelines for emerging professionals. Building a portfolio that includes academic or competition work, pursuing LEED Green Associate accreditation early, and joining AIA Illinois for networking with firms actively mentoring new graduates all strengthen your candidacy before licensure.
Where can I find and apply to architect jobs in Illinois?
You can find and apply to architect jobs in Illinois on Migrate Mate, which lists current Illinois openings across firms, institutions, and public agencies. Search the listings, find roles that match your experience and specialization, and apply directly to the employers posting them.
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