Architect Jobs in Pennsylvania
Architect jobs in Pennsylvania are consistently active, with demand concentrated in commercial development, higher education, healthcare facility design, and historic preservation work that makes the state's market distinct from most. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh anchor the largest share of hiring, with firms like Ballinger, IKM Architecture, and L2 Partridge maintaining deep roots in the state, while the Harrisburg and Lehigh Valley corridors also generate steady openings. Project architects, licensed architects, and BIM specialists are among the most sought-after across seniority levels from emerging professional through principal. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Founded over 35 years ago, First Quality is a family-owned company that has grown from a small business in McElhattan, Pennsylvania into a group of companies, employing over 5,000 team members, while maintaining our family values and entrepreneurial spirit. With corporate offices in New York and Pennsylvania and 8 manufacturing campuses across the U.S. and Canada, the companies within the First Quality group produce high-quality personal care and household products for large retailers and healthcare organizations. Our personal care and household product portfolio includes baby diapers, wipes, feminine pads, paper towels, bath tissue, adult incontinence products, laundry detergents, fabric finishers, and dishwash solutions. In addition, we manufacture certain raw materials and components used in the manufacturing of these products, including flexible print and packaging solutions.
Guided by our values of humility, unity, and integrity, we leverage advanced technology and innovation to drive growth and create new opportunities. At First Quality, you’ll find a collaborative environment focused on continuous learning, professional development, and our mission to Make Things Better®.
We are seeking a Solution Architect – Manufacturing Systems for our First Quality Enterprises, LLC company. This position will be remote out of Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Georgia or Ohio. The IT Solution Architect - Manufacturing Systems, is responsible for the strategic planning, architecture, implementation, and continuous improvement of manufacturing technology solutions supporting production, quality, material handling automation, and related business operations. This role partners closely with business leaders, Centers of Excellence (COEs), Operations, Engineering, and IT teams to ensure technology investments align with business strategy while delivering secure, reliable, scalable, and supportable solutions. The Solution Architect provides technical leadership across the full solution lifecycle—from business requirements through design, implementation, operational support, and future roadmap planning.
Primary responsibilities include:
Business Partnership
- Serve as the primary IT advisor to Manufacturing, Quality, Warehousing, Logistics, and Automation business leaders.
- Develop trusted relationships with operational stakeholders.
- Translate business objectives into technology roadmaps and solution architectures.
- Facilitate strategic planning for 3–5-year technology initiatives.
People Manager
- Manage the assigned Solution Architects and their teams to foster cross domain collaboration, ensure alignment on end-to-end process flows, data models and integration points rather than optimizing only within their silos.
- Prioritize Skills Development and knowledge sharing across teams so team members stay current on both their specialized domains and the broader enterprise architecture, integration, and cloud/platform capabilities.
- Align individual and team objectives with measurable business outcomes and regularly review solution roadmaps against those outcomes.
- Complete all administrative tasks associated with people management with consistency and mindfulness.
Solution Architecture
- Lead architecture and design for manufacturing applications and integrations.
- Ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, and maintainable.
- Develop and maintain architecture standards and reference models.
- Evaluate new technologies and recommend adoption where appropriate.
Manufacturing Systems
Provide technical leadership for systems including:
- Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
- Quality Management Systems
- Material Handling Automation
- Industrial data historians
- Shop floor data collection
- Equipment integrations
- Operational reporting and analytics
Project Leadership
- Support project teams during planning, design, implementation, and deployment.
- Review low level solution designs for compliance with enterprise architecture standards.
- Identify technical risks and mitigation strategies.
- Ensure continuity and successful transition across Plan, Build, Run.
Governance
- Establish architecture governance for manufacturing technology.
- Participate in technology standards and design reviews.
- Maintain documentation, diagrams, and solution roadmaps.
Vendor Management
- Work with software vendors, systems integrators, and equipment suppliers.
- Participate in software selection and proof-of-concept evaluations.
- Review Statements of Work and technical deliverables.
- Build depth via staff augmentation in key business areas.
Operational Excellence
- Improve system reliability, availability, and performance.
- Support business continuity and disaster recovery planning.
- Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt.
Mentoring
- Mentor solution architects, analysts, and solution engineers.
- Share knowledge across IT teams.
- Encourage architectural best practices and continuous learning.
The ideal candidate should possess the following:
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 10+ years of experience implementing enterprise manufacturing solutions.
- Experience working directly with manufacturing operations.
- Strong solution architecture and systems integration experience.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives.
- Travel across all First Quality North American sites is required and is anticipated to be 40-50%
Preferred Experience
- Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Data historians
- Quality Management Systems
- Industrial Automation
- SAP integration
- Cloud platforms (Azure preferred)
- Knowledge of Integration Capabilities
- Operational Technology (OT)
- Enterprise architecture frameworks
What We Offer You
We believe that by continuously improving the quality of our benefits, we can help to raise the quality of life for our team members and their families. At First Quality you will receive:
- Competitive base salary and bonus opportunities
- Paid time off (three-week minimum)
- Medical, dental and vision starting day one
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Child and family care assistance (dependent care FSA with employer match up to $3750)
- Bundle of joy benefit (years’ worth of free diapers to all team members with a new baby)
- Tuition assistance
- Wellness program with savings of up to $4,000 per year on insurance premiums
- ...and more!
First Quality is committed to protecting information under the care of First Quality Enterprises commensurate with leading industry standards and applicable regulations. As such, First Quality provides at least annual training regarding data privacy and security to employees who, as a result of their role specifications, may come in to contact with sensitive data.
First Quality is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identification, or protected Veteran status.
Founded over 35 years ago, First Quality is a family-owned company that has grown from a small business in McElhattan, Pennsylvania into a group of companies, employing over 5,000 team members, while maintaining our family values and entrepreneurial spirit. With corporate offices in New York and Pennsylvania and 8 manufacturing campuses across the U.S. and Canada, the companies within the First Quality group produce high-quality personal care and household products for large retailers and healthcare organizations. Our personal care and household product portfolio includes baby diapers, wipes, feminine pads, paper towels, bath tissue, adult incontinence products, laundry detergents, fabric finishers, and dishwash solutions. In addition, we manufacture certain raw materials and components used in the manufacturing of these products, including flexible print and packaging solutions.
Guided by our values of humility, unity, and integrity, we leverage advanced technology and innovation to drive growth and create new opportunities. At First Quality, you’ll find a collaborative environment focused on continuous learning, professional development, and our mission to Make Things Better®.
We are seeking a Solution Architect – Manufacturing Systems for our First Quality Enterprises, LLC company. This position will be remote out of Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Georgia or Ohio. The IT Solution Architect - Manufacturing Systems, is responsible for the strategic planning, architecture, implementation, and continuous improvement of manufacturing technology solutions supporting production, quality, material handling automation, and related business operations. This role partners closely with business leaders, Centers of Excellence (COEs), Operations, Engineering, and IT teams to ensure technology investments align with business strategy while delivering secure, reliable, scalable, and supportable solutions. The Solution Architect provides technical leadership across the full solution lifecycle—from business requirements through design, implementation, operational support, and future roadmap planning.
Primary responsibilities include:
Business Partnership
- Serve as the primary IT advisor to Manufacturing, Quality, Warehousing, Logistics, and Automation business leaders.
- Develop trusted relationships with operational stakeholders.
- Translate business objectives into technology roadmaps and solution architectures.
- Facilitate strategic planning for 3–5-year technology initiatives.
People Manager
- Manage the assigned Solution Architects and their teams to foster cross domain collaboration, ensure alignment on end-to-end process flows, data models and integration points rather than optimizing only within their silos.
- Prioritize Skills Development and knowledge sharing across teams so team members stay current on both their specialized domains and the broader enterprise architecture, integration, and cloud/platform capabilities.
- Align individual and team objectives with measurable business outcomes and regularly review solution roadmaps against those outcomes.
- Complete all administrative tasks associated with people management with consistency and mindfulness.
Solution Architecture
- Lead architecture and design for manufacturing applications and integrations.
- Ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, and maintainable.
- Develop and maintain architecture standards and reference models.
- Evaluate new technologies and recommend adoption where appropriate.
Manufacturing Systems
Provide technical leadership for systems including:
- Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
- Quality Management Systems
- Material Handling Automation
- Industrial data historians
- Shop floor data collection
- Equipment integrations
- Operational reporting and analytics
Project Leadership
- Support project teams during planning, design, implementation, and deployment.
- Review low level solution designs for compliance with enterprise architecture standards.
- Identify technical risks and mitigation strategies.
- Ensure continuity and successful transition across Plan, Build, Run.
Governance
- Establish architecture governance for manufacturing technology.
- Participate in technology standards and design reviews.
- Maintain documentation, diagrams, and solution roadmaps.
Vendor Management
- Work with software vendors, systems integrators, and equipment suppliers.
- Participate in software selection and proof-of-concept evaluations.
- Review Statements of Work and technical deliverables.
- Build depth via staff augmentation in key business areas.
Operational Excellence
- Improve system reliability, availability, and performance.
- Support business continuity and disaster recovery planning.
- Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt.
Mentoring
- Mentor solution architects, analysts, and solution engineers.
- Share knowledge across IT teams.
- Encourage architectural best practices and continuous learning.
The ideal candidate should possess the following:
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 10+ years of experience implementing enterprise manufacturing solutions.
- Experience working directly with manufacturing operations.
- Strong solution architecture and systems integration experience.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives.
- Travel across all First Quality North American sites is required and is anticipated to be 40-50%
Preferred Experience
- Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Data historians
- Quality Management Systems
- Industrial Automation
- SAP integration
- Cloud platforms (Azure preferred)
- Knowledge of Integration Capabilities
- Operational Technology (OT)
- Enterprise architecture frameworks
What We Offer You
We believe that by continuously improving the quality of our benefits, we can help to raise the quality of life for our team members and their families. At First Quality you will receive:
- Competitive base salary and bonus opportunities
- Paid time off (three-week minimum)
- Medical, dental and vision starting day one
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Child and family care assistance (dependent care FSA with employer match up to $3750)
- Bundle of joy benefit (years’ worth of free diapers to all team members with a new baby)
- Tuition assistance
- Wellness program with savings of up to $4,000 per year on insurance premiums
- ...and more!
First Quality is committed to protecting information under the care of First Quality Enterprises commensurate with leading industry standards and applicable regulations. As such, First Quality provides at least annual training regarding data privacy and security to employees who, as a result of their role specifications, may come in to contact with sensitive data.
First Quality is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identification, or protected Veteran status.
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- Technology & Software
- Staffing & Recruiting
- Consulting & Professional Services
- Human Resources
- Transportation & Logistics
What Pennsylvania Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in architect jobs across Pennsylvania.
- Active Pennsylvania registered architect license issued by the State Architects Licensure Board
- Professional degree in architecture from an accredited program, typically a Bachelor or Master of Architecture
- Demonstrated experience with BIM software, particularly Revit, for documentation and coordination
- Proficiency in the full project delivery cycle from schematic design through construction administration
- Familiarity with Pennsylvania building codes, zoning regulations, and ADA compliance requirements
- Strong communication skills for coordinating with clients, engineers, and municipal permitting offices
Architect Jobs in Pennsylvania: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a architect in Pennsylvania?
To become a licensed architect in Pennsylvania, you must earn a professional degree in architecture from a program accredited by NAAB, complete the required hours of the Architectural Experience Program, and pass all sections of the Architect Registration Examination. Pennsylvania licensure is issued by the State Architects Licensure Board within the Department of State, which also accepts reciprocal licensure from other states for qualified candidates already licensed elsewhere.
How much do architects make in Pennsylvania?
Architects in Pennsylvania earn a median of about $97,030 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $61,690 for the lowest 10% to over $149,950 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire architects in Pennsylvania?
Employers hiring architects in Pennsylvania right now include Wabtec, Cencora, and Ascensus, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Pennsylvania's mix of large academic medical centers, public universities, and active municipal development programs means hiring is spread across institutional, civic, and private commercial firms statewide.
Which Pennsylvania cities have the most architect jobs?
Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania have the most architect openings in Pennsylvania. Philadelphia dominates due to its concentration of major healthcare systems, universities, and ongoing mixed-use development, while Pittsburgh's strength in higher education, tech-adjacent campus projects, and infrastructure work keeps demand steady, and smaller markets like Harrisburg reflect state government and civic construction activity.
Are there remote architect jobs in Pennsylvania?
Yes, but they're rare. About 76% of architect openings tied to Pennsylvania are remote or hybrid as of September 2026, which reflects how much of architectural work is inherently tied to site visits, client meetings, and hands-on coordination with construction teams. The parts of the role most likely to be done remotely are design development, BIM modeling, and specification writing.
How can I get hired as a architect in Pennsylvania with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is securing an architectural intern or junior designer role while completing your Architectural Experience Program hours toward licensure. Large Pennsylvania-based firms and institutional employers such as university facilities departments and hospital systems often bring on recent graduates for production and documentation roles. Building a portfolio that includes academic projects, internship work, or volunteer design experience, paired with Revit proficiency, gives candidates a clear edge over those relying on credentials alone.
Where can I find and apply to architect jobs in Pennsylvania?
You can find and apply to architect jobs in Pennsylvania on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings across the state. Find roles that fit your experience and specialty, then apply directly to the employers posting them.
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