Enterprise Architect (gn) Physical AI & Software Defined Automation

We are looking for an Enterprise Architect to translate business ambition into platform value and design enterprise-ready IT–OT architectures with our customers. This role is critical in turning strategic interest into board-approved platform decisions, acting as a trusted advisor during the sales and early adoption journey. You will bridge business strategy and platform value, executive ambition and technical reality, and Proof of Value with long-term enterprise architecture.

As an Enterprise Architect, you will: - Translate customer business goals into platform value narratives, architecture principles, and adoption logic. - Co-create enterprise IT–OT architectures with customers, designing target architectures for software-defined automation and Physical AI integration. - Develop and evolve technology-agnostic capability frameworks and lead maturity assessment workshops. - Design enterprise transformation roadmaps with a phased adoption approach and risk mitigation strategy. - Identify expansion opportunities and support Sales and Partner teams in building expansion narratives and business cases.

**Experience & Background:** - Many years of strong experience as an Enterprise Architect, Solution/Platform Architect, or Digital/IT–OT Transformation Architect. - Proven exposure to large enterprise environments. - Experience working in automation domains. - Familiarity with cloud and enterprise IT architectures, OT systems, shopfloor realities, industrial robots, and platform/ecosystem-based models. - Ideally based in one of the following regions: Rhine-Main, Berlin, Munich, Düsseldorf, or Cologne/Bonn. **Skills & Strengths:** - Ability to operate credibly with board-level stakeholders, CIO/CDO/CTO organizations, and OT/engineering teams. - Strong facilitation and workshop leadership skills. - Excellent abstraction and structuring capability. - Comfortable working in ambiguity and shaping clarity. **Mindset:** - Business-outcome driven, not technology-first. - Platform thinker, not project executor. - Curious, structured, and pragmatic. - Strong sense of ownership and responsibility for customer success.

We're building a new Sales team within the Revenue department which collaborates alongside Customers Success, Marketing, Partner Management as well as Engineering and the Project Team.