Principal Architect, Global Manufacturing CTO

Responsibilities

• Partner with customers on strategic opportunities, building trusted relationships with executives and enterprise data architects.
• Innovate and design data-driven and AI-powered solutions and architectures for manufacturing use cases, including end-to-end blueprints and demo showcases with AI/ML and agentic flows.
• Drive repeatability and scale by building reusable solution assets, frameworks, persona use case journeys, system architectures, and field enablement workshops/playbooks.
• Influence product roadmap by providing structured feedback based on industry needs and customer requirements.
• Act as thought leader through blogs, talks, field enablement, webinars, and conferences.

Requirements

• 10+ years of architecture experience building, consulting to, or implementing technology for Manufacturing business units/companies.
• Expert in Manufacturing data topics (Supply Chain, IT/OT, Digital Twin, etc.), challenges, and opportunities.
• Ability to consultatively engage customers, understand pain points, and design solutions using data and AI technologies.
• Broad experience with large-scale database/data warehouse, ETL, analytics, public cloud technologies.
• Understanding of Data Science & Machine Learning in Manufacturing.
• Familiarity with enterprise data sources/technologies: ERPs, CRMs, SCMs, MES, SCADA, QMS, LIMS.
• Outstanding presentation and communication skills for technical and executive audiences.
• Experience with senior executives.
• Bachelor’s Degree required; Master’s in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or related preferred.
• Strong knowledge of SQL, Python (hands-on); Java, Scala a plus.
• 3+ years Cloud Provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) customer-facing architecture experience.
• Ability to travel.

Nice-to-Haves

• Equivalent experience to advanced degrees.