Emerging Technology Solution Architect

Hitachi Energy Ltd.; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible work options

Well-being and care

Paid and unpaid leave

Job summary

Hitachi Energy Ltd. is seeking an Emerging Technology Solution Architect to perform architectural analysis and assess high-level designs for innovative market solutions.

You will evaluate how new technologies fit into Hitachi Energy’s architecture, determine integration and scaling implications, and collaborate with internal stakeholders to reuse assets. External vendors will be understood in the context of architectural assessment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in solution or enterprise architecture in a complex environment.
• Experience assessing emerging technologies from an architectural perspective.
• Ability to translate innovation topics into high-level inputs and recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Assess architectural fit, integration feasibility, and enterprise design implications for emerging tech.
• Develop high-level solution design sketches and integration options.
• Coordinate with Hitachi Energy architects to align with target architecture standards.
• Investigate platform landscape to avoid duplication and assess build-vs-buy-vs-reuse and cost implications.
• Outline architecture options for PoCs with guardrails and constraints.
• Identify security, data, or compliance considerations early and involve experts.
• Engage with external vendors to evaluate solutions against criteria.
• Prepare recommendation packages with architecture findings, risks, and constraints.
• Document insights and contribute to knowledge repositories.

Skills

Solution architecture

AI/ML familiarity

Cloud architecture

Stakeholder management

Enterprise architecture

Education

CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

As an Emerging Technology Solution Architect within Hitachi Energy’s Innovation-as-a-Service function, you will perform architectural analysis and assess high-level solution designs for emerging technologies and innovative market solutions. You will evaluate how innovative technologies fit into the company’s architecture, how they can be integrated and scaled, and what their adoption would mean in a complex enterprise environment. You will work with internal stakeholders to ensure an appropriate fit and reuse of current assets, and with external vendors to understand their solutions in the context of architectural assessment. Your work will be proactive and reactive, depending on the innovation services provided. This role requires an understanding of emerging technologies and technology trends and the ability to stay up to date, particularly in artificial intelligence and other emerging technology areas. You will combine this knowledge with an understanding of business challenges and the outcomes that new technologies might bring.

You will translate innovation ideas into concrete architectural assessments, solution design sketches, and integration options. Your work will provide technically grounded inputs for clear, actionable recommendations, ensuring that proposed solution paths are realistic and aligned with Hitachi Energy’s target architecture.

This role connects emerging technologies and innovative solutions with other architecture and technology departments within Hitachi Energy. Alongside this work, you will collaborate with architecture, technology validation, and prototyping specialists and document architectural insights from completed assessments, contributing to reusable patterns and shared knowledge repositories.

The focus is on internal enterprise innovation, not customer-facing products.

As an Emerging Technology Solution Architect within Hitachi Energy’s Innovation-as-a-Service function, you will perform architectural analysis and assess high-level solution designs for emerging technologies and innovative market solutions. You will evaluate how innovative technologies fit into the company’s architecture, how they can be integrated and scaled, and what their adoption would mean in a complex enterprise environment. You will work with internal stakeholders to ensure an appropriate fit and reuse of current assets, and with external vendors to understand their solutions in the context of architectural assessment. Your work will be proactive and reactive, depending on the innovation services provided. This role requires an understanding of emerging technologies and technology trends and the ability to stay up to date, particularly in artificial intelligence and other emerging technology areas. You will combine this knowledge with an understanding of business challenges and the outcomes that new technologies might bring.

You will translate innovation ideas into concrete architectural assessments, solution design sketches, and integration options. Your work will provide technically grounded inputs for clear, actionable recommendations, ensuring that proposed solution paths are realistic and aligned with Hitachi Energy’s target architecture.

This role connects emerging technologies and innovative solutions with other architecture and technology departments within Hitachi Energy. Alongside this work, you will collaborate with architecture, technology validation, and prototyping specialists and document architectural insights from completed assessments, contributing to reusable patterns and shared knowledge repositories.

The focus is on internal enterprise innovation, not customer-facing products.

How you’ll make an impact

• Assess the architectural fit, integration feasibility, and enterprise design implications of emerging technologies and market solutions for innovation topics accepted for assessment. Translate your findings into concise architecture compatibility assessments that support clear technology recommendations.
• Develop high-level solution design sketches and integration approach options, ensuring proposed solution paths are realistic and enterprise-grade. Provide these as architectural inputs to innovation recommendation packages.
• Coordinate with Hitachi Energy architects to ensure assessments and proposed solution approaches align with Hitachi Energy’s target architecture standards and approved reference patterns.
• Investigate the platform and application landscape to avoid duplication and ensure an appropriate fit with existing and onboarded solutions including build‑vs‑buy‑vs‑reuse considerations and high-level cost implications.
• Outline architecture options where a proof of concept or further investigation is recommended. Define the architectural guardrails and constraints for proposed proofs of concept.
• Identify potential security, data, or compliance considerations early and involve the relevant expert teams where needed.
• Engage with external vendors and startups to understand their solutions and evaluate them against architectural, integration, and scalability criteria.
• Participate in preparing recommendation packages, contributing architecture‑specific findings, risks, and constraints relevant to next‑step decisions.
• Document architectural insights and solution design lessons from completed innovation assessments. Contribute to architecture knowledge repositories and reusable pattern libraries where applicable.

Your background

• At least five years of professional experience in solution architecture, enterprise architecture, AI/ML platform design, or cloud architecture in a complex enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated experience assessing emerging technologies from an architectural perspective, with the ability to develop high-level solution design sketches and integration approach options.
• Experience working with ambiguous, early‑stage innovation topics and translating them into concrete architectural inputs and recommendations.
• Experience collaborating across innovation, architecture, and delivery stakeholder communities, supported by strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Familiarity with AI/ML architecture patterns, large language model integration, cloud‑native design, and enterprise integration standards. Understanding of target architecture concepts and architectural guardrails.
• Strong strategic conceptual thinking skills and Strong ability to prepare architectural outputs that are clear and understandable to other teams.
• A degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field is preferred. Fluent English

The final offer will be based on candidate location, skills and qualifications, experience, and aligned with internal pay structures.

This role may be open in multiple locations. If the salary information listed is not applicable for your current home location, salary details relevant to your location will be discussed with you at a later stage.

Our benefit offering is tailored based on your country of employment and generally includes:

• Competitive salary and incentives
• Well‑being and care
• Paid and unpaid leave
• Flexible work options
• Benefits that support your financial security

You will receive more specific information during the recruitment process.

We are a global leader in electrification, powering the electricity era to meet the energy demands of today, and the next 25 years. As the energy arm of Hitachi Group, over three billion people depend on our pioneering, mission‑critical technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century of innovation, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time: driving the evolution of the world’s energy system to ensure abundant, secure, affordable, and sustainable power for today’s generation and the next.

With an unparalleled installed base in over 140 countries, we are the grid ecosystem partner across the utility, industry, data center, and transportation sectors. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 56,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $20 billion USD.