Digital Solution Architect (Senior Manager) - Manufacturing Domain

Digital Solution Architect (Senior Manager) - Manufacturing Domain

• Define, communicate, and drive the technology landscape and roadmap covering business capabilities related to Manufacturing domain, including designing and governing end-to-end digital manufacturing solutions that align business strategy with plant operations, ensuring seamless IT/OT integration and secure scalable architectures.
• Work closely with senior business. stakeholders to understand the business strategy, their requirements, objectives, and constraints.
• Create a comprehensive technology strategy and roadmap that maximizes existing investments and incorporates innovative solutions to increase operational efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance customer experiences. Ensuring the architecture remains adaptable to evolving business requirements.
• Design comprehensive high-level architecture for the solution, encompassing all necessary components and addressing the key dimensions of people, process, technology, and data. Covering both functional and non-functional requirements, including performance, scalability, reliability, and security.
• Establish and promote design principles and standards. Evaluate available technology options to recommend the optimal approach. Determining whether to leverage existing components or procure/build new ones.
• Ensure the future sustainability of our planet by prioritizing green-IT as part of the target architecture.

Location: Barcelona (Spain), Delft (Netherlands), Maastricht (Netherlands)

• A space to grow by encouraging and supporting curiosity and an open mindset.
• A flexible work environment that empowers people to take accountability for their work and own the outcome.
• A culture that prioritizes safety and well-being, both physically and mentally.
• A diverse, multicultural team to learn from and to lead their continued growth.
• The chance to shape dsm-firmenich and its impact for years to come.
• A truly global and collaborative team that cares about the experience of our employees.

• Experience in IT consulting functions, of which experience in functional and technical consultancy for IT systems and experience in engineering, in enterprise IT architecture and software architecture design
• Excellent knowledge of IT/Digital technologies, coupled with a deep understanding of the IT-OT Perdue Model, cloud platforms and integration solutions.
• Excellent knowledge of the main processes and business capabilities in the Manufacturing domain including production planning, shop floor execution, quality management, factory logistics, and asset management
• Excellent knowledge of discrete, batch, process, and hybrid manufacturing models to support the different industries we act in (chemical, pharma, cosmetics, food & beverage)
• Excellent knowledge of Industry 4.0 & Smart Manufacturing - IoT/IIoT, edge computing, digital twins and predictive maintenance.
• Strong understanding of ISO, OSHA, GMP, environmental and safety compliance
• Hands-on implementation experience with MES and/or LIMS systems. Knowledge of SAP is preferred.
• Experience within Supply Chain is preferred.
• Bachelor's/master's degree in IT or manufacturing related study.
• Experience in understanding the stakeholder landscape and management.

We're managing this search directly at dsm-firmenich. If you're applying as an individual, we'd love to hear from you. We're not accepting agency submissions or proposals involving fees or commissions for this role.