Global Solutions Architect, Automotive & Manufacturing, Automotive&Manufacturing EMEA SA Team

About the role

The Global Solutions Architect, Automotive & Manufacturing, serves as a trusted technical and AI advisor to customers, understanding their business needs and technology challenges to architect customized solutions. This role involves leading discussions to shape a customer's long-term technology and AI strategy, guiding them on trade-offs between short-term fixes and extensible, scalable solutions. The Solutions Architect designs end-to-end solutions leveraging both technical expertise and business acumen, driving consensus across multiple teams to deliver impactful solutions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted technical and AI advisor to customers, understanding their business needs and technology challenges to architect customized solutions
• Lead discussions to shape a customer's long-term technology and AI strategy and guide them on trade-offs between short-term fixes and extensible, scalable solutions
• Design end-to-end solutions leveraging both technical expertise and business acumen, driving consensus across multiple teams to deliver impactful solutions
• Proactively identify opportunities to accelerate implementation through reusable components, parallel workstreams, etc.
• Share knowledge by developing technical content like sample code, presentations, workshops to exemplify best practices and educate customers
• Drive product innovation by gathering customer feedback, translating needs into clear requirements, and partnering with product teams through development
• Resolve complex technical problems through root cause analysis, both for customers and internally
• Contribute strategic planning, recruit and develop talent, build team consensus, and provide guidance to more junior solutions architects

Qualifications

• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
• 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Experience working with end user or developer communities
• Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
• Experience in a technical role within a sales organization