Siemens Digital Industries Software is seeking an expert and highly motivated individual for a position as a Solution Architect within our Life Sciences, CP&R Growth Markets & Energy (LCE) Business Unit. As an LCE Solution Architect, you will be a leading resource that is responsible for designing innovative software solutions, using our Xcelerator portfolio, that aid our customers in realizing their digital future.
About the job:
As part of a Professional Services team, you will collaborate efficiently with Consultants, Architects, Project Managers, and other internal & external interfaces to ensure that the customer succeeds in their objectives. This position requires excellent interpersonal skills, leadership skills, process improvement skills as well as configuration and implementation skills. As an Architect resource, you will be responsible for the translation of business requirements into specific process aligned designs for the Siemens DI Software solution-based on standard methodologies in the subject area. In this role, you will collaborate well with the customer to support the management of customer expectations and support customer adoption by demonstrating the complete Siemens Delivery framework.
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You will establish the technical integrity of the solution and ensure it remains aligned to requirements and value delivery throughout project to achieve customer value. Your leadership will also provide direction for process design, integration and change activities either internally or at customer sites and leverage relevant templates in the leadership of project solutions while also curating standard methodologies and templates. This role will primarily work under self-management and will determine solutions, methods, and procedures on assignments/projects. Lastly, you will be asked to participate in the Architecture Community of Practice, promoting adoption within projects, and ensuring that knowledge and lessons learned are shared across project/program boundaries.
Responsibilities:
- Understand and demonstrate how Siemens solutions will alter and integrate with customers' initiatives, business drivers, value, and impact
- Analyze and translate business requirements into an architectural blueprint that outlines solutions that integrate across applications, systems, and platforms to achieve business objectives
- Bring to bear industry standard methodologies and templates for the Siemens Software solution delivered to provide customer value
- Lead the application of Solution Definition and Solution Enablement elements DI Deployment Framework on projects
- Provide accurate and timely information to project management team collaborating on reporting project status, issues, risks, and benefits
- Establish, build, and maintain effective relationships with internal or external customers technical peers and build new relationships through networking within the customer and other involved parties to support effective delivery
- Set and lead customers' expectations, demonstrating thought leadership to effectively influence key contacts and recommend solutions
- In conjunction with the senior project leadership and account team, apply customer management methods to support successful adoption of a viable DI solution
- Be responsible for validation activities, including any required prototyping, with the customer to verify if the outstanding templated solution applies to the customers' environment, rationalize, and defend selected solution to the customer explaining why and how this solution will deliver the highest value to their business
- Outline process changes that will need to occur and assist the customer drive Organizational Change.
Required Knowledge/Skills, Education, and Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university or college, preferably with software engineering background, Advanced Degree may be substituted for shown experience
- Multiple years designing Teamcenter or similar customer solutions
- Minimum of 3 -5 years technical experience as a Solution Architect
- Minimum of 7 years of relevant industry experience
- Experience in the technical leadership of large software implementation projects
- Experience using Agile principles in project execution
- Excellent presentation skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, to present sophisticated issues to multi-level audiences and successfully communicate progress, status, and issues to internal and external Customers
- Shown team leadership skills
- Location: Any Major U.S. City - Eastern or Central Time Zones
- Expected Travel requirements: 25%-50%
Why us?
Working at Siemens Software means flexibility - Choosing between working at home and the office at other times is the norm here. We offer great benefits and rewards, as you'd expect from a world leader in industrial software.
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The total cash compensation range for this position is $116,900 to $233,800 with 7.5% of this being comprised of an annual incentive target. The actual compensation offered is based on the successful candidate's work location as well as additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education/training. Siemens offers a variety of health and wellness benefits to employees. Details regarding our benefits can be found here: www.benefitsquickstart.com In addition, this position is eligible for time off in accordance with Company policies, including paid sick leave paid parental leave, PTO (for non-exempt employees) or non-accrued flexible vacation (for exempt employees).
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