Lead Solution Architect
Contract W2
Contract Independent
25% Travel Required
Remote
Depends on Experience
Maitsys
Fitment
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Job Details
Skills
- gxp
- scada
- pharma
- it/ ot
- mes
Summary
Lead Solution Architect Remote (Eastern Time Zone)
- Location: Remote (must be available to work in the Eastern Time Zone)
- Travel: Up to 25% travel to client site in North Carolina as needed.
About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled Enterprise Architect for a Greenfield manufacturing facility project, who will be the site team liaison between IT and business cross functional teams to ensure the quality delivery of 40+ digital capabilities for the new site from an architecture perspective.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with a matrix of cross functional architects, technical product owners, and business process owners to develop/document end-to-end architecture artifacts.
- Develop various architecture artifacts to support the evolution of the end-to-end architecture. Deliver architecture artifacts by key business milestones.
- Lead and manage the Architecture work stream. Develop deliverable backlog, project plan, maintain decision logs, identify/document risks.
- Architect and design alternative options to mitigate timeline and other risks, for interim solutions, and influence key IT leaders and business partners.
- Manage the work of other architects (solution architect, technical architect, and product architects).
- Periodically report progress and help PMs and PMOs to build integrated project plans.
- Drive architectural decisions that support reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
Key Architecture Artifacts include:
- Business capabilities and business mapping
- E2E data flow and technical flow (simplified & detailed), including cybersecurity and infrastructure perspectives
- Ecosystem and landscape diagrams to support various parallel testing cycles
- Organize all project architecture artifacts in a single, easy-to-access location
- Ensure architecture solutions comply with client security, governance, and quality standards.
- Ensure architecture remains consistent throughout the project lifecycle, and complies with EA standards and reference architecture.
- Contribute towards developing/shaping/optimizing reference architecture.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 15+ years of experience in enterprise architecture or related roles.
- Experience working in manufacturing, industrial, or supply chain environments.
- Experience with GxP and SDLC and regulated pharmaceuticals industry.
- Familiarity with ISA95 architecture models or IT/OT integration frameworks.
- Broad experience in some of these major systems related to manufacturing IT/OT systems: SCADA, PLC, DeltaV, PATSynTQ, Alarm Management System, Aveva PI, PASX, LIMS, QMS, S/4HANA, AI/ML/GenAI, Visual Factory, Digital Twin, Control Tower, and other custom developed products.
- Familiarity with some key concepts in IT/OT infrastructure, including cloud and cybersecurity products.
- MES concepts and manufacturing ecosystem integrations.
- Enterprise and shopfloor systems such as SCADA, historians, QMS/LIMS.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholdermanagement skills.
- Ability to operate effectively in a customerfacing, onsite environment.
- Ability to develop complex and drill-down diagrams in draw.io (Confluence).
- Ability to simplify complex problems to communicate to senior leaders.
- Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills.
- Ability to influence decisions across business and technical groups.
- Organized, detailoriented, and effective in complex environments.
- Comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders and crossfunctional teams.
- Enterprise architecture methodology knowledge (TOGAF or similar), and familiarity with tools like LeanIX and SAxpress is a plus.
Why Join Us?
- Highvisibility role at a strategic client site.
- Opportunity to lead major architecture initiatives in a modern manufacturing setting.
- Play a key role shaping architecture across SAP, MES, and critical plant systems.
- Work in a leadership-focused role with significant client interaction and architectural influence.
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- Dice Id: 91159812
- Position Id: 9056663
- Posted 44 minutes ago
Company Info
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