[Hiring] Principal Solutions Architect @Mendix

Role Description

The Solution Architect is the technical leader for customer engagements delivered by Siemens Professional Services. This role translates business outcomes and process needs into secure, scalable, and supportable solution architectures.

• Lead solution definition from discovery through design, build, integration, validation, deployment, and transition.
• Govern the integrity of the end-to-end solution and align customer and delivery teams around clear architectural decisions.
• Ensure functional and non-functional requirements are implemented using Siemens methods, standard capabilities, and reusable patterns.
• Success requires hands-on architecture leadership, strong customer communication, disciplined technical governance, and orchestration of applications, data, AI, integrations, and workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Discovery and Solution Definition
  • Lead technical discovery workshops to understand customer processes, business outcomes, users, data, systems, constraints, and measures of success.
  • Partner with the Engagement Manager, Sales, Presales, and customer stakeholders to convert value hypotheses and high-level scope into an executable solution approach.
  • Define the end-to-end architecture across relevant Siemens and customer capabilities.
  • Establish the solution vision, architecture principles, major design decisions, assumptions, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
  • Create solution-definition deliverables that provide sufficient clarity for estimation, planning, build, testing, deployment, and support.
• Architecture and Design Governance
  • Own the technical integrity and coherence of the complete solution.
  • Author and govern architecture documents, functional and technical specifications, interface designs, and data models.
  • Define and validate non-functional requirements.
  • Lead design reviews and ensure implementation decisions remain aligned with the approved architecture.
  • Maintain traceability from requirements and business processes through design, configuration, integration, testing, and acceptance.
• Technical Delivery Leadership
  • Provide day-to-day technical direction to consultants, developers, and partners.
  • Decompose the solution into implementable work packages.
  • Validate that configured, extended, and integrated components implement the approved design.
  • Coordinate technical activities across build, integration, data migration, testing, deployment, and transition to operations.
• Customer and Stakeholder Leadership
  • Serve as the primary technical advisor to the customer during delivery.
  • Guide customers toward Siemens best practices and standard capabilities.
  • Facilitate decisions across business, IT, security, architecture, and operational stakeholders.
  • Present solution status, design decisions, and technical issues to project governance forums.
• Quality, Risk, and Change Control
  • Partner with QA and delivery leadership to define the validation strategy.
  • Identify architecture, integration, data, security, performance, and deployment risks early.
  • Support disciplined change control by providing evidence-based technical recommendations.
  • Confirm that technical deliverables, decisions, and acceptance evidence are complete before key stage gates.
• Pursuit Support and Practice Development
  • Support engagement shaping, proposals, demonstrations, estimates, and delivery plans.
  • Contribute reusable reference architectures, patterns, accelerators, templates, and technical standards.
  • Mentor consultants and technical leads in architecture methods and customer communication.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and delivering enterprise software or digital transformation solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to lead solution definition through build, integration, testing, deployment, and transition to operations.
• Strong architecture skills across applications, data, integrations, workflows, security, and non-functional requirements.
• Excellent workshop facilitation, presentation, written communication, and executive-level technical storytelling skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Willingness to travel and work across customer locations and time zones as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Siemens Digital Industries Software, including one or more of: Intelligence Center X (ICX), SLC, Mendix, Teamcenter, NX, Opcenter, Graph Studio, AI Studio.
• Experience architecting multi-product solutions that connect enterprise applications, industrial data, AI, low-code applications, and business workflows.
• Experience with cloud and hybrid architectures, APIs and integration patterns, data platforms, identity and access management, DevSecOps, or enterprise observability.
• Relevant architecture, cloud, platform, security, or Siemens product certifications.

Benefits

• The pay range for this position is 146,700–293,400 annually.
• This position is eligible for a target incentive of 7.5% of the base salary.
• Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Paid time off and professional development opportunities.