Chief Platform Architect, Core Services

Siemens Digital Industries Software; Wilsonville (OR); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 325,000; Full time

Job summary

Siemens AG in the United States is seeking a Chief Architect for Core Business Services to define and drive architectural vision for a portfolio of foundational platform services, including licensing, integrations, software delivery, and usage analytics.

You will collaborate with engineering and product leaders to shape the technical evolution, ensure secure, scalable, and maintainable architecture, and mentor senior engineers across multiple teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture, including large-scale enterprise systems.
• Proven ability to define and evolve architecture across multiple teams and product offerings.
• Expertise in cloud-native and hybrid architectures, APIs, security, and platform engineering.
• Strong strategic thinking balancing long-term direction with pragmatic delivery.
• Ability to mentor architects and senior engineers, promoting technical excellence.
• Fluent English, excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate the architectural vision and roadmap for Core Business Services.
• Drive architectural consistency across engineering teams with standards and guidelines.
• Lead architecture of platform capabilities, APIs, and shared services for multiple products.
• Provide technical leadership through reviews, mentoring, and guidance for senior staff.
• Evaluate emerging technologies to drive innovation while ensuring sustainability.
• Drive platform modernization and reduce technical debt through reusable components.

Skills

Software architecture

Cloud-native

APIs & platform engineering

Mentoring engineers

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering

Job description

Job Family: Software

Req ID: 519245

We are a leading global software company dedicated to the world of computer aided design, 3D modeling and simulation— helping innovative global manufacturers design better products, faster! With the resources of a large company, and the energy of a software start-up, we have fun together while creating a world class software portfolio. Our culture encourages creativity, welcomes fresh thinking, and focuses on growth, so our people, our business, and our customers can achieve their full potential.

Chief Architect – Core Business Services

As Chief Architect for Core Business Services, you will define and drive the architectural vision and technical direction for a portfolio of foundational platform services, including licensing, business integrations, software delivery, and usage analytics. These shared services enable product teams to build on a common platform and deliver consistent customer experiences across the Siemens software portfolio. Working across multiple engineering teams responsible for a portfolio of product offerings, you will ensure a cohesive, scalable, secure, and maintainable architecture that aligns with the organization's business objectives and technology strategy.

You will work closely with engineering, product, and architecture leaders to shape the technical evolution of Core Business Services, balancing long-term architectural vision with the practical needs of product delivery while contributing to the evolution of the broader platform.

Your Impact & Key Responsibilities

• Define and communicate the architectural vision, technical direction, and architectural roadmap for Core Business Services.

• Drive architectural consistency across engineering teams by defining and governing architectural principles, standards, reference architectures, and technology guidelines in collaboration with peer architects, ensuring alignment across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.

• Lead the architecture of strategic platform capabilities, APIs, and shared services that support multiple product offerings, with a focus on scalability, security, reliability, interoperability, and maintainability.

• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, cross-team initiatives, mentoring, and guidance for architects, principal engineers, and senior technical leaders.

• Evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and architectural approaches to drive innovation while ensuring long-term sustainability and operational excellence.

• Drive platform modernization by reducing technical debt and promoting the adoption of shared platform services, reusable components, and common architectural patterns.

• Partner with engineering and product leadership to align architectural decisions with customer needs, product strategy, and business objectives.

• Represent Core Business Services in cross-organizational architecture forums, contributing to the evolution of the broader platform architecture and shared technology standards.

• Engage with senior stakeholders, strategic customers, and internal and external technology partners to communicate architectural direction, gather feedback, and represent the interests of Core Business Services as needed.

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture, including designing and delivering large-scale enterprise software systems.

• Proven experience defining, leading, and evolving architecture for complex software platforms across multiple engineering teams and product offerings.

• Deep expertise in cloud-native and hybrid architectures, distributed systems, APIs, security, and platform engineering.

• Strong strategic thinking with the ability to balance long-term architectural direction with pragmatic delivery and evolving business priorities.

• Demonstrated ability to make pragmatic architectural decisions that balance technical excellence, business priorities, delivery timelines, and long-term platform evolution.

• Practical experience in one or more enterprise platform domains, such as software licensing, business systems integration, usage analytics, or software delivery.

• Understanding of business and operating models, financial planning, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting, and risk management.

• Experience designing reusable platform capabilities, shared services, and APIs for large-scale distributed systems.

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence technical and business audiences.

• Proven ability to mentor architects and senior engineers, fostering technical excellence and a culture of continuous improvement.

• Fluent in English, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.

Why us?

Working at Siemens Software means flexibility - Choosing between working at home and the office at other times is the norm here. We offer great benefits and rewards, as you'd expect from a world leader in industrial software.

You’ll Benefit From

Siemens offers a variety of health and wellness benefits to our employees. Details regarding our benefits can be found here: https://www.benefitsquickstart.com/siemens/index.html

The pay range for this position is 180,400 - 324,700annually with a target incentive of 15-25 of the base salary. The actual wage offered may be lower or higher depending on budget and candidate experience, knowledge, skills, qualifications, and premium geographic location.

A collection of over 377,000 minds building the future, one day at a time in over 200 countries. We're dedicated to equality, and we welcome applications that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. All employment decisions at Siemens are based on qualifications, merit, and business need. Bring your curiosity and creativity and help us shape tomorrow!

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$180,400 $324,700

Organization: Digital Industries

Job Type: Full-time

Category: Research & Development