Lead Systems Architect - Manufacturing Integrations & Azure

Nextpower; Fremont (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Nextpower is seeking a Manufacturing Systems Product Manager to lead the integration of contract manufacturing partners with our enterprise systems and data platforms. This role owns the business and systems roadmap to make manufacturing transactions visible, reliable, and actionable across operations, supply chain, finance, quality, and analytics.

The role sits at the intersection of business process, systems product management, data integration, and manufacturing operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, CS, engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, business, or related field.
• 8+ years in enterprise systems, product management, systems integration, or related discipline.
• Experience owning technology products from discovery through ongoing operations.
• Strong understanding of business process design and enterprise transaction flows across manufacturing, supply chain, inventory, quality, procurement, and logistics.
• Experience integrating external partners using APIs, files, batch processes, events, or middleware.
• Experience data mappings, interface requirements, validation rules, reconciliation, exception handling, and data-quality controls.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure data services and Fabric including OneLake, Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Data Factory, SQL, Power BI

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, roadmap, backlog, and delivery priorities for contract manufacturing integrations.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, quality, finance, logistics, IT, analytics, and contract manufacturing teams to map current and future-state processes.
• Translate business needs into clear product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, data contracts, and measurable outcomes.
• Define system-of-record strategy, ownership, lifecycle, and business rules for key manufacturing transactions and master data.
• Identify gaps, data-quality risks, and opportunities for automation across the value chain.
• Establish common processes and data standards across partners, plants, products, and regions.
• Lead onboarding and integration with enterprise applications and data platforms.
• Coordinate requirements, design, testing, cutover, hypercare, and production support across internal teams, SI partners, and manufacturers.
• Create partner onboarding standards, interface specs, operating procedures, and support playbooks.
• Lead cross-functional delivery from discovery through implementation, testing, deployment, and stabilization.
• Use Azure DevOps, Git, and disciplined release practices with engineering teams.

Skills

Product management

Systems integration

Azure

Microsoft Fabric

Power BI

Data modeling

API integration

Stakeholder management

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Business, or related field

Tools

Azure Data Services

Microsoft Fabric

OneLake

Lakehouse

Data Factory Pipelines

SQL

PySpark

Job description

Nextpower is seeking a Manufacturing Systems Product Manager to lead the integration of contract manufacturing partners with our enterprise systems and data platforms. This role owns the business and systems roadmap to make manufacturing transactions visible, reliable, and actionable across operations, supply chain, finance, quality, and analytics.

The role sits at the intersection of business process, systems product management, data integration, and manufacturing operations.