Solutions Architect

Solutions Architect

Date:
Feb 25, 2026

Location:

Saint Louis, MO 63101;
Birmingham, AL 35203;
Kansas City, MO 64129

Company:
Spire Inc.

Spire is seeking a Solutions Architect to support Enterprise Asset Management and Field Technologies. This position will focus on providing the necessary analysis and design tasks related to support the development of technological solutions to ensure these solutions meet business needs and align with enterprise architectural governance and standards.

We are committed to understanding the needs of the homes and businesses we serve. That's why we're always looking for driven, collaborative people to join our team. Because we believe that offering our customers the best service means bringing together the best people.

And we find the best by hiring those who share our values of safety, inclusion and integrity, and demonstrate the competencies that bring the Spire vision, mission and culture to life:

• Adaptability:
  We embrace change, continuously seeking opportunities for improvement while remaining open‑minded and flexible in response to evolving conditions and customer, stakeholder and company needs.
• Collaboration:
  
  We achieve more together through a foundation of respect, embracing healthy conflict, actively seeking and providing actionable feedback and fostering an environment where everyone's input is welcomed.
• Ownership:
  We see things through, demonstrate accountability, honor commitments, take responsibility for outcomes and demonstrate initiative.

By living our values and competencies, we strive to create an environment where employees feel welcome, respected and valued.

• Translate business and technical requirements into an architectural solution blueprint to achieve business goals and document all solution architecture design and analysis work.
• Provide and maintain architectural designs and diagrams for individual and collective solutions and products.
• Work with architects throughout the organization to create and define technology roadmap in developing vision for solutions and assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business and IT estate.
• Lead design and analysis for the implementation of a solutions based on value‑streams, business requirements and enterprise standards.
• Facilitate the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of both standard and custom software configurations for the solution in scope.
• Strong ability to translate solution roadmap into annual planning and budget cycle.
• Work closely with product management to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the specific product lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of agile Dev Ops principles and ability to lead teams and organization in alignment and transformation.
• Provide consulting support to technical personnel and software engineers within agile teams to ensure the project or product is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture.
• Ability to depict and communicate technical work in the form of product features in conjunction with Product Management and prioritize accordingly alongside business enhancements and enterprise initiatives.
• Create and maintain technical standards and policies at a solution level, in conjunction with architects throughout the organization.
• Break down technical work into features, accept technical feature work, ensuring acceptance criteria and definition of done are achieved.
• Address dependencies at a solution level, providing oversight and guidance as needed.
• Understand software licensing and the impact of licensing when making technology decisions.
• Work with Information Security to complete security testing on applications.

• Deep understanding of solution value‑streams and business activities
• Ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and non‑technical audiences
• Understanding of long‑term ("big picture") versus short‑term perspectives of situations
• Ability to translate business requirements into solution architecture requirements
• Quickly adapt to work creatively and…