Enterprise Architect (gn) Industrial AI & Enterprise Transformation

WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS

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.

The Wandelbots Enterprise Architect role exists to:

• Translate business ambition and competitiveness goals into platform value
• Design enterprise-ready architectures with customers
• Create trust, clarity, and alignment across business, IT, and OT stakeholders
• Enable scalable adoption of software-defined automation and Physical AI

This role is critical in turning strategic interest into board-approved platform decisions. Reporting to: CRO (dotted line to Product & Engineering). As Enterprise Architect, you act as a trusted advisor to enterprise customers during the sales and early adoption journey.

You bridge:

• Business strategy and platform value
• Executive ambition and technical reality
• Proof of Value and long-term enterprise architecture

Your work ensures that Wandelbots is positioned as a foundational platform, not an isolated solution.

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

• 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

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

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

• 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 — you understand how business and IT connect at scale in complex operations
• 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 — you pick up context quickly and go deep where it matters
• Strong sense of ownership in a high-velocity environment
• You thrive in a scale-up where your work shapes direction, not just delivers to spec

We're building a new Sales team within the Revenue department which collaborates alongside Customers Success, Marketing, Partner Management as well as Engineering and the Project Team.

1. Screening Call, remote, with Recruiter (30 min)
2. Follow-Up Interview, remote, with Hiring Manager / CRO (45 min)
3. Onsite Interview with Stakeholder Interviews, Product Demo and Live Exercise (appr. 4h)