Sr. Specialist Solution Architect

Magna International; Untergruppenbach; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Magna International seeks a Senior Specialist Solution Architect to design, govern, and refine solution architectures within the MPT IT landscape. You will collaborate with business, IT, and OT, ensuring that technologies align with strategy and future readiness.

Responsibilities include driving architecture principles, performing cross-domain analyses, and guiding IoT‑oriented and hybrid deployments while maintaining governance and architecture artifacts. International travel is expected.

Qualifikationen

• A degree in computer science, business informatics, or a comparable qualification.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.

Aufgaben

• Driving the development and continuous enhancement of enterprise and solution architecture principles.
• Conducting business and system analyses across multiple domains to identify optimization opportunities.
• Defining and aligning target architectures with business, IT, and OT stakeholders.
• Evaluating architecture‑relevant demands within the demand management process, ensuring compliance with IT strategy and security requirements.
• Designing solution architectures with a focus on IoT-related solutions and hybrid infrastructures (on‑premises, edge, cloud).
• Ensuring architectural guidance and governance throughout project implementation.
• Maintaining architecture artifacts in LeanXI and ensuring transparency and quality.
• Coaching and enabling business, IT, and OT stakeholders.

Kenntnisse

IoT architectures

Hybrid IT landscapes

Stakeholder management

Communication

Ausbildung

Computer science / business informatics degree

Jobbeschreibung

Senior Specialist Solution Architect

As a Senior Specialist Solution Architect, you are responsible for the design, continuous refinement, and governance of solution and target architectures within the MPT IT landscape. In close collaboration with business, IT, and OT stakeholders, you ensure that technological solutions are implemented in alignment with the overall strategy, sustainably, and with future readiness in mind.

Your Responsibilities

• Driving the development and continuous enhancement of enterprise and solution architecture principles in close collaboration with experts from IT and OT environments.
• Conducting business and system analyses across multiple domains to identify opportunities for optimization, digitalization, integration, and modernization.
• Defining and aligning target architectures together with business, IT, and OT stakeholders.
• Evaluating architecture‑relevant demands within the demand management process, ensuring compliance with architecture principles, IT strategy, as well as security and integration requirements.
• Designing and developing solution architectures with a focus on IoT‑related solutions, as well as applications in administrative business areas, considering hybrid infrastructures such as on-premises, edge, and cloud.
• Ensuring architectural guidance and governance throughout project implementation.
• Ensuring architectural transparency and quality by maintaining relevant architecture artifacts in LeanIX.
• Coaching and enabling business, IT, and OT stakeholders.

What We Are Looking For

• A degree in computer science, business informatics, or a comparable qualification.
• More than 10 years of relevant professional experience in an IT environment, ideally within the automotive or manufacturing industry.
• Several years of hands‑on experience in architecture‑related disciplines such as solution architecture, enterprise architecture, business analysis, demand management, or requirements and software engineering.
• Strong understanding of IoT architectures and hybrid IT landscapes (on‑premises, edge, cloud).
• Certifications in IT architecture or IT service management (e.g., ITIL) are an advantage.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, along with the ability to present complex architectural topics in a structured and audience‑appropriate manner.
• Willingness to combine strategic, conceptual, and implementation‑oriented tasks, including international travel.

Awareness, Unity, Empowerment

At Magna, we believe that a diverse workforce is critical to our success. That’s why we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We hire on the basis of experience and qualifications, and in consideration of job requirements, regardless of, in particular, color, ancestry, religion, gender, origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity. Magna takes the privacy of your personal information seriously. We discourage you from sending applications via email or traditional mail to comply with GDPR requirements and your local Data Privacy Law.