Solution Architect

**Job Details**
Function:
Information Technology

Job Family:
Application Delivery

Family Description:
Delivers business solutions that enable global and local business teams. Executes transparent IT processes for full solution lifecycle. Drives continuous improvement in solution performance, reliability, compliance, and efficiency. Proactively drives solution usage and simplification with business partners. Strategically develops and executes solution roadmap that aligns to business strategy and measurably drives business KPIs. Consistently grows expertise in business processes and enabling technologies

Role:
**Solution Architect and Delivery Lead - Digital Manufacturing**Role Responsibilities:
Implementation Roadmap: support the creation and maintenance of a implementation roadmap of such platforms, maximizing company benefits.

Project Proposals: responsible for generating end-to-end solution proposals recommendations to business requirements, including the proposed solution architecture, estimated cost, time, internal effort as well as implementation risks, including partner recommendations.

Project Delivery: responsible for the implementation of such projects, including solution design, development, testing, deployment and post go live support and transition to IT Operations, fulfilling all business requirements on time, budget and quality.

Continuous Improvement: coach, establish and influences the usage of technical best practices across the operations organization. Coordinates and ensures data governance methodologies are adhered to within our environment.

Organization Interaction:
Supports IT Business Partners and user community in opportunity definition, business case build and in the elicitation and validation of business requirements

Collaborates with ERP and Enterprise Integration teams in defining and delivering end-to-end solutions, including system integrations

Interact with Application Support leaders on defining support solution designs as well as with the transition to the Managed Services team responsible for day-to-day support

Collaborates with Global Infrastructure and Global Security teams in defining and delivering solutions

Key Business Processes:
**This position will focus on Manufacturing Execution processes, including Manufacturing Engineering, Materials Management, Shop Floor Control, Shipping, Maintenance Management, and other key functions within the Manufacturing operations globally**Key IT Platforms:
Maximo

PTC Thingworx

Multiple MES Technologies

Role KPI’s:
Project Delivery on-time, budget and quality

Solution Reusability

Level of Application Customization

Simplification of solution portfolio

Increased Cost Efficiency in solution delivery

**Qualifications**:

- Preferred Education:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field. Or equivalent work experience.
- Minimum Required Experience**:

- Minimum of 2 years of hands-on IoT, Industry 4.0 or Digital Transformation experience.
- Must have Skills/Knowledge:

- Deep understanding of product development, engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain processes
- **Minimum of 2 years **development **experience on the PTC ThingWorx Industrial Innovation Platform**:

- **Experience with ThingWorx IoT service and mashup development**:

- Experience integrating ThingWorx with ‘Big Data’ platforms should be a plus
- **Experience with the **development **and use of IOT related technologies at the connected edge i.e. IoT protocols, local and back haul connectivity technologies and industrial sensor technologies.**:

- Understanding of key IoT use cases and demonstrated experience defining associated value propositions.
- Experience with defining and implementing Analytics and decision support capabilities.
- Able to lead technology architecture definition and infrastructure design activities for IoT solutions.
- Experience creating technology architecture and infrastructure design activities
- Understanding of the challenges between “starting small” and “designing for scale”
- Experience with other IoT Platforms such as AWS IoT, Azure IoT, Google Cloud Platform, GE Predix, Siemens Mindsphere, SAP Leonardo a plus.
- Other Skills/Knowledge:

- General knowledge of Agile and SDLC software development practices and technical documentation (requirements, functional specifications, test plans, etc.)
- Programming Languages ThingWorx, Java
- Database Management System: SQL Application Packages, VBA, SSRS
- Travel Requirements:
This position may require up to 25% domestic and/or international travel