Enterprise Architect

About the Position

We're seeking an Enterprise Architect to join Wandelbots GmbH, a leading company in industrial automation, to design scalable enterprise architectures and drive platform transformation.

Responsibilities

• 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Requirements

• 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.

We Offer

• 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.

About the Company

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.