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# Senior Specialist Solution Architect

- **Company:** Magna
- **Location:** Lannach, Austria
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Software Engineering, IT Architecture, Information Technology
- **Published:** September 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://devjobs.at/job/208360662e044354b151d246bd2c7de0

## About the Role

* A degree in computer science, business informatics, or a comparable qualification., * Strong understanding of IoT architectures and hybrid IT landscapes (on-premises, edge, cloud).
 * Certifications in IT architecture or IT service management (e.g., ITIL) are an advantage.
 * Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, along with the ability to present complex architectural topics in a structured and audience-appropriate manner.
 * Willingness to combine strategic, conceptual, and implementation-oriented tasks, including international travel., * More than 10 years of relevant professional experience in an IT environment, ideally within the automotive or manufacturing industry.
 * Several years of hands-on experience in architecture-related disciplines such as solution architecture, enterprise architecture, business analysis, demand management, or requirements and software engineering.

## Description

* As a Senior Specialist Solution Architect, you are responsible for the design, continuous refinement, and governance of solution and target architectures within the MPT IT landscape.
 * In close collaboration with business, IT, and OT stakeholders, you ensure that technological solutions are implemented in alignment with the overall strategy, sustainably, and with future readiness in mind.
 * Driving the development and continuous enhancement of enterprise and solution architecture principles in close collaboration with experts from IT and OT environments.
 * Conducting business and system analyses across multiple domains to identify opportunities for optimization, digitalization, integration, and modernization.
 * Defining and aligning target architectures together with business, IT, and OT stakeholders.
 * Evaluating architecture-relevant demands within the demand management process, ensuring compliance with architecture principles, IT strategy, as well as security and integration requirements.
 * Designing and developing solution architectures with a focus on IoT-related solutions, as well as applications in administrative business areas, considering hybrid infrastructures such as on-premises, edge, and cloud.
 * Ensuring architectural guidance and governance throughout project implementation.
 * Ensuring architectural transparency and quality by maintaining relevant architecture artifacts in LeanIX.
 * Coaching and enabling business, IT, and OT stakeholders.


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