Senior System Architect - Embedded Industrial Solutions

Etteplan; Tampere; Hybrid; EUR 67,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model in Finland

Competitive compensation and benefits

Job summary

Etteplan is seeking a System Architect to define and drive the technical architecture for complex embedded product solutions across industries. You will own the system-level view and act as the technical anchor for demanding customer engagements from concept through delivery.

This senior role requires 10+ years in embedded systems, strong cross-disciplinary leadership, and excellent communication with both engineering teams and customers.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of embedded systems experience with system-level architecture responsibility.
• Proven track record architecting products that integrate electronics, mechanics and/or embedded software with strong HW/SW co-design skills.
• Experience in a technical leadership or principal engineer role within engineering consultancy or product company.
• Excellent communication skills with engineering teams and customer stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end system architecture, including requirements decomposition, interfaces and trade-off decisions across hardware, software and mechanics.
• Lead make/buy and platform-vs-custom decisions and maintain architecture documentation and technical governance.
• Shape solution concepts with sales and business development during scoping and proposal phases.
• Translate customer needs and business requirements into practical architectural solutions.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor in customer workshops and steering meetings.
• Coordinate across disciplines to ensure architectural integrity, and mitigate system-level risks early, including integration, EMC, thermal, safety and certification risks.
• Support project managers and department heads with technical planning and design reviews and mentor senior engineers across disciplines.
• Contribute to technology roadmaps and reusable platform strategies, tracking trends such as embedded AI, edge computing and connected product security.

Skills

System-level architecture

Embedded systems design

Hardware/software co-design

Technical leadership

Client/stakeholder comms

Job description

Etteplan is seeking a System Architect to define and drive the technical architecture for complex embedded product solutions across industries. You will own the system-level view and act as the technical anchor for demanding customer engagements from concept through delivery.

This senior role requires 10+ years in embedded systems, strong cross-disciplinary leadership, and excellent communication with both engineering teams and customers.