[Hiring] Enterprise Architect @Wandelbots GmbH

Role Description

Your mission is to serve as an Enterprise Architect, acting as a trusted advisor to enterprise customers during the sales and early adoption journey. This role is critical in turning strategic interest into board-approved platform decisions.

• 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.
• Enable scalable adoption of software-defined automation and Physical AI.

What You Will Do

• Business-to-Platform Translation:
  • 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.
• Enterprise Architecture Design:
  • 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.
• Maturity Assessment & Capability Frameworks:
  • 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.
• Transformation Roadmaps & Value Realization:
  • 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.
• Expansion & Business Development Support:
  • 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.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Familiarity with platform and ecosystem-based models, cloud-native architectures, and enterprise governance.
• Ideally based in: Rhine-Main, Munich, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, or Cologne/Bonn.

Nice to Have

• 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.

Skills & Strengths

• 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.

Mindset

• Business-outcome driven, not technology-first.
• Platform thinker, not project executor.
• Curious, fast-learning, and energized by new domains.
• Strong sense of ownership in a high-velocity environment.

Benefits

• Up to 3 days of volunteer time off to help your favorite charity.
• Training and mental health opportunities for personal and professional development.
• Free lunch, snacks, and drinks.
• Team events and 30 days of annual vacation + additional rest during Christmas season until New Year.
• 100% of your usual earnings paid while taking care of your sick child.

Company Description

Wandelbots is fundamentally reshaping the way to work with robots, developing easy-to-use solutions to speed up automation and empower everyone to work with industrial robots.

• Founded in 2017, Wandelbots employs more than 100 people from 14 countries.
• Headquartered in Dresden, Germany.
• Team culture is driven by purpose and values, emphasizing autonomy, feedback, and kindness.