Enterprise Architect

We are looking for an Enterprise Architect to translate business ambition into platform value and design enterprise-ready IT-OT architectures with our customers. This role is critical in turning strategic interest into board-approved platform decisions, acting as a trusted advisor during the sales and early adoption journey. You will bridge business strategy and platform value, executive ambition and technical reality, and Proof of Value with long-term enterprise architecture.

• Strong experience as Enterprise Architect, Solution / Platform Architect, or IT Transformation Architect \n
• Proven track record delivering large-scale ERP, cloud, or platform transformation programs at enterprise level (e.g. SAP S/4HANA, Azure, AWS, ServiceNow, Salesforce or similar)\n
• Experience in customer-facing pre-sales or advisory roles: workshops, business cases, architecture reviews with C-level stakeholders\n
• Background in or significant exposure to manufacturing, industrial, or logistics enterprise environments - you understand how business and IT connect at scale in complex operations\n
• Familiarity with platform and ecosystem-based models, cloud-native architectures, and enterprise governance\n
• Ideally based in: Rhine-Main, Munich, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, or Cologne/Bonn\n

• Translate customer business goals (cost, flexibility, resilience, growth) into platform value narratives, architecture principles, and adoption and expansion logic\n
• Support Sales in executive-level value conversations\n
• Ensure technical discussions always connect back to measurable business outcomes\n

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Enterprise Architecture Design \n \n

• Co-create enterprise architectures with customers, spanning cloud, edge, and operational environments\n
• Design target architectures for software-defined automation, Physical AI integration, and scalable, multi-site operations\n
• Align Wandelbots NOVA with enterprise IT standards, security and governance requirements, and cloud and shopfloor environments\n

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Maturity Assessment & Capability Frameworks \n \n

• Develop and evolve technology-agnostic capability frameworks\n
• Lead highly interactive maturity assessment workshops with business leaders, IT architects, and automation experts\n
• Identify gaps, constraints, and transformation levers across technology, organization, governance, skills, and operating model\n

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Transformation Roadmaps & Value Realization \n \n

• Design enterprise transformation roadmaps with a phased adoption approach, risk mitigation strategy, and value realization plan\n
• Ensure roadmaps are realistic, scalable, and anchored in customer P&L logic\n

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Expansion & Business Development Support \n \n

• Identify expansion opportunities across use cases, sites, and regions\n
• Support Sales and Partner teams in building expansion narratives, developing business cases, and structuring long-term framework agreements\n
• Act as architectural continuity across the customer lifecycle\n

\n, * Exposure to OT environments, shopfloor realities, or industrial automation - from the IT or consulting side\n

• Experience with EA frameworks and tooling (TOGAF, ArchiMate, LeanIX)\n
• Background working at or with a technology scale-up or product company\n

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Skills & Strengths \n \n

• Ability to operate credibly with board-level stakeholders, CIO / CDO / CTO organizations, and engineering teams\n
• Strong facilitation and workshop leadership skills\n
• Excellent abstraction and structuring capability - you turn complexity into clarity\n
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and shaping clarity without a playbook\n

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Mindset \n \n

• Business-outcome driven, not technology-first\n
• Platform thinker, not project executor\n
• Curious, fast-learning, and energized by new domains - you pick up context quickly and go deep where it matters\n
• Strong sense of ownership in a high-velocity environment\n
• You thrive in a scale-up where your work shapes direction, not just delivers to spec\n

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Team \n

We're building a new Sales team within the Revenue department which collaborates alongside Customers Success, Marketing, Partner Management as well as Engineering and the Project Team.