Solution Architect - GHT
Role details
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Job description
- The opportunity to take on some of the world's most meaningful challenges, helping customers achieve clean water, safe food, abundant energy and healthy environments
- The ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company and a team that is passionate about growth
- The support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives and ideas to achieve our best
- A culture that values safety first, including training and personal protection.
The main responsibilities of the role are to:
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Solution Architecture: Design end-to-end technical architectures for water treatment, monitoring, and sustainability platforms. (Reference architecture)
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Client Engagement: Collaborate with sales, engineering, and service teams to understand client challenges and deliver tailored solutions.
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Commercial Excellence Key Responsibilities:
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Proposal & Communication Development
- Draft, edit, and deliver proposals that integrate input from sales, marketing, and technical experts.
- Ensure messaging highlights contractor needs, compliance, and value propositions.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Serve as the communication bridge across commercial and technical functions.
- Translate technical details into clear, customer-friendly language.
- Customer-Centric Focus
- Prioritize contractor requirements in all communications (where our PO comes from).
- Present operational outcomes as secondary benefits, reinforcing efficiency and reliability.
- Quality & Consistency
- Maintain consistency in tone, branding, and messaging across proposals and communications.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards and organizational policies.
- Continuous Improvement
- Collect feedback from contractors and internal teams to refine communication strategies.
- Support the development of templates, best practices, and knowledge libraries.
- Innovation: Drive adoption of smart water management technologies, including IoT, predictive analytics, and digital twins.
- Compliance & Security: Ensure solutions meet industry standards, regulatory requirements, and cybersecurity best practices.
- Collaboration: Partner with product managers, R&D, and field engineers to deliver scalable, customer-focused solutions.
- Documentation: Maintain architectural blueprints, roadmaps, and technical governance standards.
Requirements
Do you have experience in Water treatment?, Do you have a Master's degree?, Nalco Water, an Ecolab Company, is seeking an experienced and motivated Pre-sales Engineer to join our innovation efforts and support our customers in the Global High Tech (GHT) . We are seeking a candidate with a strong technical background, who is 'hands-on', ideally with practical field/application experience, who is self-motivated, enjoys versatility and work across different topics and projects, has a desire for collaboration and is a creative problem solver., * Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering (Chemical, Environmental, Mechanical, or similar)
- Proven experience in designing complex technical solutions or architectures (industrial systems, water treatment, or infrastructure projects)
- Experience in solution architecture, systems engineering, or technical consulting roles
- Strong capability to design end-to-end system architectures
- Knowledge of:
- Water treatment systems
- Monitoring and sustainability platforms
- Familiarity with IoT, digital platforms, predictive analytics, digital twins
- Ability to define and maintain:
- Technical roadmaps
- Reference architectures
- Technical governance frameworks
- Solid understanding of industry standards, regulatory requirements, and cybersecurity principles
- Experience working closely with customers and sales teams to translate business needs into technical solutions
- Ability to design tailored, value-driven solutions addressing client challenges
- Strong communication skills to present complex architectures to non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to align multiple stakeholders and drive solution development from concept to deliver
- Experience working in matrix and international environment
- Strong attention to technical governance and standardisationù
- trategic mindset with strong problem-solving capabilities
- Ability to balance big-picture thinking with technical detail