Enterprise Architect (gn) Physical AI & Software Defined Automation

Your mission:
WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS

Enterprise customers do not buy Physical AI as a product. They invest in it as a strategic platform decision that reshapes how their operations, IT, and automation landscape work together.

The Wandelbots Enterprise Architect role exists to:

• Translate business ambition and competitiveness goals into platform value

• Design enterprise-ready IT–OT architectures with customers

• Create trust, clarity, and alignment across business, IT, and OT stakeholders

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

This role is critical in turning strategic interest into board-approved platform decisions. Reporting to: Head of Sales (dotted line to Product & Engineering). As Enterprise Architect, you act as a trusted advisor to enterprise customers during the sales and early adoption journey.

You bridge:

• Business strategy and platform value

• Executive ambition and technical reality

• Proof of Value and long-term enterprise architecture

Your work ensures that Wandelbots is positioned as a foundational platform, not an isolated solution.

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 (IT–OT)

• Co-create enterprise IT–OT architectures with customers

• 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, edge, 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 OT 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

• Focus on software-defined automation and Physical AI

• 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

Your profile:
Experience & Background

• Many years strong experience as Enterprise Architect, Solution / Platform Architect, or Digital or IT–OT Transformation Architect

• Proven exposure to large enterprise environments

• Experience working in automation domains

• Familiarity with cloud and enterprise IT architectures, OT systems and shopfloor realities, industrial robots and autonomous moving robots, and platform and ecosystem-based models

• Ideally, you are 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 and 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

What success looks like in this role

• Customers clearly understand why and how Wandelbots fits into their enterprise architecture

• Enterprise stakeholders align across business, IT, and OT

• PoVs are designed for scale, not isolation

• Expansion opportunities are identified early and credibly

• Wandelbots is seen as a long-term platform partner

Why us?:
• You help define how Physical AI is adopted at enterprise scale

• You work at the intersection of strategy, architecture, and business impact

• You influence board-level platform decisions

• You contribute directly to enterprise trust and IPO readiness