Enterprise Architect (gn) Industrial AI & Enterprise Transformation

Wandelbots

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Wandelbots Enterprise Architect role is critical in turning strategic interest into board-approved platform decisions. This role exists to translate business ambition and competitiveness goals into platform value, design enterprise-ready architectures with customers, create trust, clarity, and alignment across business, IT, and OT stakeholders, and enable scalable adoption of software-defined automation and Physical AI. As an Enterprise Architect, you will act as a trusted advisor to enterprise customers during the sales and early adoption journey, bridging business strategy and platform value, executive ambition and technical reality, and Proof of Value and long-term enterprise architecture. Your work ensures that Wandelbots is positioned as a foundational platform, not an isolated solution.

Requirements

• Strong experience as Enterprise Architect, Solution / Platform Architect, or IT Transformation Architect.
• 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).
• Experience in customer-facing pre-sales or advisory roles: workshops, business cases, architecture reviews with C-level stakeholders.
• Background in or significant exposure to manufacturing, industrial, or logistics enterprise environments — you understand how business and IT connect at scale in complex operations.
• Familiarity with platform and ecosystem-based models, cloud-native architectures, and enterprise governance.
• Ability to operate credibly with board-level stakeholders, CIO / CDO / CTO organizations, and engineering teams.
• Strong facilitation and workshop leadership skills.
• Excellent abstraction and structuring capability — you turn complexity into clarity.
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and shaping clarity without a playbook.
• Business-outcome driven, not technology-first.
• Platform thinker, not project executor.
• Curious, fast-learning, and energized by new domains — you pick up context quickly and go deep where it matters.
• Strong sense of ownership in a high-velocity environment.
• You thrive in a scale-up where your work shapes direction, not just delivers to spec.

Nice To Haves

• Ideally based in: Rhine-Main, Munich, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, or Cologne/Bonn.
• Exposure to OT environments, shopfloor realities, or industrial automation — from the IT or consulting side.
• Experience with EA frameworks and tooling (TOGAF, ArchiMate, LeanIX).
• Background working at or with a technology scale-up or product company.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer business goals (cost, flexibility, resilience, growth) into platform value narratives, architecture principles, and adoption and expansion logic.
• Support Sales in executive-level value conversations.
• Ensure technical discussions always connect back to measurable business outcomes.
• Co-create enterprise architectures with customers, spanning cloud, edge, and operational environments.
• Design target architectures for software-defined automation, Physical AI integration, and scalable, multi-site operations.
• Align Wandelbots NOVA with enterprise IT standards, security and governance requirements, and cloud and shopfloor environments.
• Develop and evolve technology-agnostic capability frameworks.
• Lead highly interactive maturity assessment workshops with business leaders, IT architects, and automation experts.
• Identify gaps, constraints, and transformation levers across technology, organization, governance, skills, and operating model.
• Design enterprise transformation roadmaps with a phased adoption approach, risk mitigation strategy, and value realization plan.
• Ensure roadmaps are realistic, scalable, and anchored in customer P&L logic.
• Identify expansion opportunities across use cases, sites, and regions.
• Support Sales and Partner teams in building expansion narratives, developing business cases, and structuring long-term framework agreements.
• Act as architectural continuity across the customer lifecycle.

Benefits

• Training and mental health opportunities.
• Up to 3 days of volunteer time off.
• Free lunch, snacks and drinks.
• Team events.
• 30 days of annual vacation + additional rest during Christmas season until New Year.
• 100% of your usual earnings will be paid if your child gets sick.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed