Enterprise Architect (gn) Physical AI & Software Defined Automation

Overview

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.

Your mission: 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.

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 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

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, based in 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