Principal Solution Architect - REMOTE

We are a leading global software company with a wide range of offerings including but not limited to the computer aided design (CAD), 3D modeling, simulation, High Performance computing, and Production Management — helping innovative global manufacturers design and manufacture better products, faster! With the resources of a large company, and the energy of a software start-up, we have fun together while creating a best-in-class software portfolio. Our culture encourages creativity, welcomes fresh thinking, and focuses on growth, so our people, our business, and our customers can achieve their full potential.

Organization Overview:

SaaS Governance provides best-in-class SaaS standards enabling DI SW SaaS products to serve our global customers with a customer centric strategy in mind. Our standards are data-informed and value-driven based on customer demands for highly controlled and well documented processes and tools. Our engineering team are responsible for ensuring the quality in efficient delivery of processes and tools at scale.

As our organization continues to rapidly evolve, the need for well-architected processes and tools as a subject area becomes more prominent, so if you are passionate about efficiency and quality in problem-solving, optimizing operations, and driving business perfection, we invite you to join our team.

Job Profile/Position Overview:

We are seeking a highly skilled and expert principal enterprise architect to join our dynamic team in SaaS Governance. In this role, you will need to lean on your excellent working knowledge of cloud solutioning but more importantly you will need a strong ambition to drive and improve the way we deliver SaaS at scale to a global market. Therefore, you will need a balanced mix attention to application, infrastructure, automation as well as process engineering to value drive operations in line with our business goals.

You will be responsible for analyzing, designing, and optimizing the SaaS experience for our customers via standard practices, processes and tools, focusing on enhancing our efficiency, quality, and customer satisfaction, and when needed to provide support, guidance, and enablement to internal consumers of these solutions you operate.

Ideally you are familiar with process automation and will apply your expertise in analysis and architecture development to identify process improvement opportunities, streamline workflows, and drive continuous improvement initiatives throughout the organization. Furthermore, you will complement your strong technical background with problem solving, communication, and social skills for applications across a broad range of challenges and solution domains.

You will need to familiarize yourself with delivery methods in Siemens services and of our DI SW products, and the accountable / responsible partners to achieve the above goals.

Responsibilities/Tasks

1. Collaborate with multi-functional teams to understand business requirements and develop improvement strategies.
2. Conduct thorough analysis of current business processes, practices and tooling to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and areas for improvement.
3. Use agile methodologies to design and implement optimized practices, processes and tooling that increase efficiency, improve quality, and grow productivity.
4. Lead improvement projects, including mapping as-is and to-be process flows, conducting root cause analysis, and implementing solutions.
5. Support the execution of organization-wide initiatives as an advocate for customer, business, and technical concerns.
6. Help to drive the adoption of the improvements by multi-functional teams and collaborate with partners to ensure effective implementation of the improvements and monitor their ongoing impact.
7. Develop and implement performance metrics and measurement systems to track progress and find opportunities for further improvement.

Crucial qualifications:

1. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in project management, process engineering, or related fields.
2. 5 or more years of experience in delivery of enterprise architecture solutions as a project lead, driving planning, implementation, quality, and operations in a production environment.
3. Experience documenting and verbally communicating project plans, business processes, systems architecture and development technical details to technical and non-technical partners.
4. Experience working horizontally across multiple teams.
5. Shown proven understanding of AWS or any other Cloud Provider platform and work execution in an agile environment.
6. Shown working experience using Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD) to drive the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
7. Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD principles as applied to the development and delivery of cloud-hosted SaaS solutions.

Complimentary qualifications:

1. Experience working in a globally distributed organization.
2. Familiarity with the Siemens DISW portfolio and related products domains, such as PLM, CAD, CAM, CAE, IOT, and others.
3. In-depth knowledge of cloud computing, distributed systems, data architecture, and/or Software as a Service (SaaS) technologies.
4. Experience in business process engineering, process improvement, and methodologies like Lean Six Sigma methodologies.
5. Experience integrating SaaS solutions with enterprise business systems and commerce platforms.
6. Experience with systems automation, and end-to-end testing harnesses for software development.
7. 3 or more years of experience building SaaS solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Azure, with understanding of cloud security principles, encryption, and vulnerability management.

Exceptional qualifications:

1. AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate or Solution Architect Professional certification.
2. TOGAF or any equivalent Solution Architect certificates.

Why us?

Working at Siemens Software means flexibility - Choosing between working at home and the office at other times is the norm here. We offer great benefits and rewards, as you'd expect from a world leader in industrial software.

A collection of over 377,000 minds building the future, one day at a time in over 200 countries. We're dedicated to equality, and we welcome applications that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. All employment decisions at Siemens are based on qualifications, merit, and business need. Bring your curiosity and creativity and help us shape tomorrow!

Siemens Software. Transform the Everyday.

Compensation is based on experience and market values. You will be asked what your expectations are. There are multiple perks beyond the basic health insurance package, including RRSP matching, share purchase matching, company paid diversity days, and an extensive employee assistance program.