Senior Principal Cloud Solutions Architect

Job Purpose

A Solutions Architect will be responsible for designing the end-to-end cloud based (Azure) solution architecture of the applications and data products across Manufacturing & Engineering within Global Supply Chain Data & AI organization. This includes collaborating with product managers, product owners, other solution architects, data modelers, business intelligence developers, and data engineers from different data product and cross[1]functional teams. The person will play a key role in translating product requirements into technical solution and ensuring the engineering teams are correctly implementing it.

Key responsibilities

• Design end-to-end solutions architecture that would encompass storage & compute resources, front-end components, visualization components, virtual machines and other cloud resources as needed for the solution.
• Blueprint and design of level 3 and above solutions like MES integration to ERP and PLM to create a digital thread.
• Assessment and strategy identification for manufacturing and engineering driven products across sites and factories.
• Design and execution of rapid prototyping of the product. Being a single person of contact to articulate the solutions architecture to the review board to get the solution approved for implementation.
• Ensuring the solution adheres compliance to the organization’s security and governance standards.
• Functional expertise in Industry 4.0, IT-OT integration, industrial automation, Edge and IoT. Design reference architecture and reusable components to optimize time to market the products.
• Collaboration with architecture and infrastructure platform teams to implement governance strategies and policies.
• Providing leadership, technical direction and expertise to architecture and engineering teams composed of full-time employees, strategic partners, and software vendors.
• Pro-active engagement in experimentation and innovation to drive continuous improvement.
• Driving a culture of innovation, transparency, and trust.

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Total 15+ years of experience and 10+ years of experience in designing end-to-end solutions for cloud-based (Azure) data analytics products and web applications in Agile software development with excellent verbal and written articulation skills.
• Experience with organizing cloud resources, applying governance policies, and enforcing compliance requirements.