Enterprise Architect (gn) Physical AI & Software Defined Automation

Wandelbots GmbH; Dresden; Vor Ort; EUR 80.000 - 100.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading technology company is seeking an Enterprise Architect in Dresden, Germany, to translate business ambitions into platform value and design IT-OT architectures. This role demands extensive experience in large enterprise environments and requires excellent stakeholder management skills. The ideal candidate will bridge business strategy and technology, supporting expansion opportunities and ensuring customer success in automation ecosystems. A strategic mindset is essential for success in this position, influencing long-term platform decisions.

Qualifikationen

• Many years of strong experience as an Enterprise Architect, Solution/Platform Architect, or Digital/IT-OT Transformation Architect.
• Proven exposure to large enterprise environments.
• Experience working in automation domains.

Aufgaben

• Translate customer business goals into platform value narratives.
• Design enterprise IT-OT architectures with customers.
• Develop technology-agnostic capability frameworks.

Kenntnisse

Enterprise Architecture

IT-OT Transformation

Cloud Architectures

Workshop Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Jobbeschreibung

Your mission

WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS

Enterprise customers do not buy Physical AI as a product. They invest in it as a strategic platform decision that reshapes how their operations, IT, and automation landscape work together.

The Wandelbots Enterprise Architect role exists to:

• Translate business ambition and competitiveness goals into platform value
• Design enterprise‑ready IT‑OT architectures with customers
• Create trust, clarity, and alignment across business, IT, and OT stakeholders
• Enable scalable adoption of software‑defined automation and Physical AI

This role is critical in turning strategic interest into board‑approved platform decisions. Reporting to: Head of Sales (dotted line to Product & Engineering). As Enterprise Architect, you act as a trusted advisor to enterprise customers during the sales and early adoption journey.

You bridge:

• Business strategy and platform value
• Executive ambition and technical reality
• Proof of Value and long‑term enterprise architecture

Your work ensures that Wandelbots is positioned as a foundational platform, not an isolated solution.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Business-to-Platform Translation

• Translate customer business goals (cost, flexibility, resilience, growth) into platform value narratives, architecture principles, and adoption and expansion logic
• Support Sales in executive‑level value conversations
• Ensure technical discussions always connect back to measurable business outcomes

Enterprise Architecture Design (IT‑OT)

• Co‑create enterprise IT‑OT architectures with customers
• Design target architectures for software‑defined automation, Physical AI integration, and scalable, multi‑site operations
• Align Wandelbots NOVA with enterprise IT standards, security and governance requirements, and cloud, edge, and shopfloor environments

Maturity Assessment & Capability Frameworks

• Develop and evolve technology‑agnostic capability frameworks
• Lead highly interactive maturity assessment workshops with business leaders, IT architects, and OT and automation experts
• Identify gaps, constraints, and transformation levers across technology, organization, governance, skills, and operating model

Transformation Roadmaps & Value Realization

• Design enterprise transformation roadmaps with a phased adoption approach, risk mitigation strategy, and value realization plan
• Focus on software‑defined automation and Physical AI
• Ensure roadmaps are realistic, scalable, and anchored in customer P&L logic

Expansion & Business Development Support

• Identify expansion opportunities across use cases, sites, and regions
• Support Sales and Partner teams in building expansion narratives, developing business cases, and structuring long‑term framework agreements
• Act as architectural continuity across the customer lifecycle

Your profile

Experience & Background

• Many years strong experience as Enterprise Architect, Solution / Platform Architect, or Digital or IT‑OT Transformation Architect
• Proven exposure to large enterprise environments
• Experience working in automation domains
• Familiarity with cloud and enterprise IT architectures, OT systems and shopfloor realities, industrial robots and autonomous moving robots, and platform and ecosystem‑based models
• Ideally, you are based in one of the following regions: Rhine‑Main, Berlin, Munich, Düsseldorf, or Cologne/Bonn

Skills & Strengths

• Ability to operate credibly with board‑level stakeholders, CIO / CDO / CTO organizations, and OT and engineering teams
• Strong facilitation and workshop leadership skills
• Excellent abstraction and structuring capability
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and shaping clarity

Mindset

• Business‑outcome driven, not technology‑first
• Platform thinker, not project executor
• Curious, structured, and pragmatic
• Strong sense of ownership and responsibility for customer success

What success looks like in this role

• Customers clearly understand why and how Wandelbots fits into their enterprise architecture
• Enterprise stakeholders align across business, IT, and OT
• PoVs are designed for scale, not isolation
• Expansion opportunities are identified early and credibly
• Wandelbots is seen as a long‑term platform partner

Why us?

• You help define how Physical AI is adopted at enterprise scale
• You work at the intersection of strategy, architecture, and business impact
• You influence board‑level platform decisions
• You contribute directly to enterprise trust and IPO readiness