MI Solutions Architect

Come join our team at DIS-TRAN Steel!

Our people – not our machinery - are our biggest assets. DIS-TRAN Steel’s leadership team lives by our company values, modeling our culture of respect and integrity each day.
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DIS-TRAN Steel is looking to add a MI Solutions Architect I to the team at our location in Ruston, LA.

The MI Solutions Architect I designs scalable, secure, and maintainable technical architectures that guide how Manufacturing Intelligence (MI) solutions are built and integrated across systems and environments.

This role focuses on solution design, technical strategy, and governance. The MI Solutions Architect I translates business and functional requirements into architecture frameworks, standards, data flows, integration strategies, and system designs. This position serves as the primary technical authority for assigned projects and guides implementation teams in delivering consistent, reliable, and high-quality solutions.

• Participate in architecture workshops, technical planning sessions, design reviews, and project discussions.
• Collaborate with IT, engineering, operations, software development, and implementation teams.
• Gather and evaluate business, functional, technical, security, data, and integration requirements.
• Present proposed architecture designs and technical recommendations to project stakeholders.
• Explain complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Build stakeholder confidence through collaboration, sound judgment, and well-supported technical recommendations.

• Develop technical architectures from business requirements and functional specifications.
• Create architecture diagrams, system designs, data flows, interface requirements, and integration strategies.
• Translate requirements into scalable, secure, testable, and maintainable technical solutions.
• Evaluate technical alternatives and recommend solutions based on scalability, cybersecurity, maintainability, reliability, cost, and enterprise standards.
• Ensure architectural designs align with established enterprise standards, governance requirements, and integration strategies.
• Provide architectural direction and technical guidance throughout the project lifecycle.
• Support software development, system implementation, integration activities, validation, deployment, and technical troubleshooting.

• Design enterprise integrations and data architectures connecting MI platforms with ERP systems, historians, SCADA platforms, PLCs, databases, cloud environments, and industrial devices.
• Define secure communication and integration approaches using REST APIs, MQTT, OPC UA, and other applicable protocols.
• Define data flows, system boundaries, interface requirements, and information-exchange patterns.
• Guide database, application, platform, and integration design decisions.
• Support the resolution of complex architecture, integration, deployment, and system-performance issues.

• Ensure architectures support maintainability, testability, CI/CD practices, cybersecurity, and long-term system reliability.
• Participate in system validation, architecture reviews, technical reviews, and release-readiness activities.
• Identify opportunities to improve reusable architecture frameworks, design patterns, integration methods, and technical standards.
• Develop and maintain architecture documentation, technical standards, diagrams, and supporting design materials.
• Support technical risk identification, project planning, and resolution of architecture-related issues.
• Maintain awareness of relevant emerging technologies, industrial practices, and Manufacturing Intelligence developments.

• Serve as the primary technical authority for assigned projects.
• Lead the technical design of assigned solutions and guide implementation teams in applying approved architectures.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to specialists and other project team members.
• Promote consistent application of architecture, integration,…