Job description
Brief description of the position:
The Solution Architect focused on architecture design of value-driven Digital Products, promoting the application of digital technologies in manufacturing processes, ensuring that technical solutions meet Biz needs and have a forward-looking perspective. This position requires coordinating internal resources, collaborating with Biz and external partners to achieve digitalization
Key Tasks:
- Define systems architectures, integration scenarios and coordinate with Domain Architect to meet overall landscape target for Region China to be presented and approved in the corresponding boards.
- Develop/optimize solution architectures, further develop reference architectures and standards, new technologies and promote their adoption in domain in line with business strategy.
- Gain a deep understanding of business needs and propose reference architectures that meet customer requirements. Evaluate, recommend and adopt products, tools, frameworks, etc.
- Consult projects on architectural measures, identify technical gaps between local requirements and Group solutions in Group rollout projects with subject matter experts, PMs, BU and IT security.
- Identify technical gaps between local requirements and group solutions, and resulting risks (e.g. stability, performance, maintainability, standard compliance) following sEADM methodology and derive.
- Know global technology and industry trends, evaluate applicability and integrate into products and projects. Implement appropriate solutions meeting functional and non-functional business requirement.
- Coordinate project teams to ensure the effective implementation & timely issue resolution, identify potential technical risks, develop mitigation strategies, remove obstacles to ensure timely delivery.
- Safeguard an efficient, fast, and reliable delivery system, high adaptability and flexibility development methods and tools, CI/CD development practices that improve the speed and quality of delivery.
- Functional Management and Guidance of Junior Developers with regards to Problem Resolution, Development Approaches and Techniques as well as Troubleshooting, Testing and Architectures.
- Timely complete other data and business intelligence related tasks assigned by the line manager / supervisor.
Qualification and skills:
- Masters degree in Computer Science, IT, Business Administration, or related field.
- 8+ years in software development/architecture, with 3+ years as a Solution Architect.
- Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Proficiency in architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman) and modeling tools (UML, ArchiMate).
- Strong knowledge of APIs, microservices, databases (SQL/NoSQL), and security standards (OAuth, SAML).
- Agile coaching experience, DevOps processes &Tools know-how
- Strategic mindset with a focus on balancing innovation, risk, and business value.
- Great communication skills to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.