HVDC Solution Architect/HVDC Specialist (f/m/d)

Siemens Energy; Manchester; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Attractive remuneration package

Employer-financed company pension scheme

Flexible working options

Professional and personal development opportunities

Family-friendly policies

Job summary

A global energy technology company in Manchester is seeking a HVDC Solution Architect to define and implement technical strategies for HVDC projects. This pivotal role involves collaborating with diverse teams, analyzing customer needs, and ensuring solutions align with business objectives. Required qualifications include a degree in Electrical Engineering and experience in HVDC or FACTS technology. The role also emphasizes strong analytical, communication, and leadership skills, and offers a dynamic work environment with flexible benefits.

Qualifications

• Extensive engineering experience in HVDC or FACTS technology is preferred.
• Knowledge of project management and contract management is a plus.
• Experience in leading international technical standardization is preferred.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills for diverse teams.
• Fluent English; German knowledge is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Work with customers to align requirements with solutions.
• Lead and coordinate technical solutions globally.
• Define technical strategies ensuring quality and minimal risk.
• Identify market trends and R&D requirements.
• Engage in international committees.

Skills

Strong analytical skills

Excellent communication skills

Teamwork and leadership abilities

Negotiation skills

Education

Completed university degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Snapshot of Your Day

As a HVDC Solution Architect (f/m/d), you are a key figure in our organization defining the technical strategy and solution for HVDC Onand Offshore projects globally. The Solution Architect (SA) crafts the technical strategy for the offerings, ensuring alignment with business objectives and compatibility with the solution portfolio. By analyzing customer needs early on, the SA guides the development of technologically advanced, and commercially viable solutions. As a key member of a multidisciplinary team, the Solution Architect collaborates closely with Sales, Tendering, Commercial, Legal, and early involved Project Manager to ensure a seamless integration of expertise from the early stages.

The Solution Architect will support a positive project team spirit around common goals and achievements. By communicating in a very clear, open and proactive way, you are encouraging others to do the same.

How You’ll Make An Impact

• Work with the customer to understand the requirements and align these with the solution portfolio, through pre-acquisition and acquisition phase
• Lead, develop and co‑ordinate technical solution with national and international technical resources across the organization
• Define a technical strategy ensuring a holistic techno‑commercial solution, reflecting lessons learned from former projects. Focus is on minimizing risk and ensuring quality
• Identification of market trends and R&D requirements
• Active engagement in international committees

What You Bring

• Completed university degree preferably in Electrical Engineering or equivalent technical field
• Extensive engineering experience preferably in HVDC or FACTS technology
• Knowledge of project management and contract management as well as experience in leading international technical standardization is preferred
• Strong analytical and communication skills for understanding customer needs, providing value‑added inputs, and excelling in multicultural environments with a strategic approach
• Proficient in negotiations, interface management, teamwork and leadership abilities
• Excellent verbal and written skills in English and knowledge of German is preferred

About The Team

Our Grid Technology division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world’s electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150‑year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

• In addition to an attractive remuneration package in line with the market, you can expect an attractive employer‑financed company pension scheme
• We also offer the opportunity to become a Siemens Energy shareholder
• We offer our employees the opportunity to work flexibly and remotely, and our inspiring offices provide space for collaboration and creativity
• The professional and personal development of our employees is very important to us. We provide them with the opportunities to learn and develop in a self‑determined way, various attractive programs and learning materials are available for this purpose
• In relation to the “compatibility of family and work”, we have a wide range of offers, e.g. flexible working time models, childcare places at many locations, the possibility of trial part‑time work or even a sabbatical

We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.