About the job
Kuecker Pulse Integration (KPI) is in search of a highly skilled, hands-on Senior Solution Architect to act as the technical lead on intricate and high-stakes automation projects.
This pivotal role encompasses:
- Mitigating risks associated with solution design
- Enhancing the precision of requirements definition
- Integrating design with software and execution
- Avoiding last-minute surprises that could affect timelines, profit margins, and client trust
- Overseeing the complete solution architecture for complex, software-intensive automation systems, serving as the recognized technical authority from initial concept through to execution.
- Leading the early stages of requirements definition and risk assessment, ensuring that scope, assumptions, and constraints are thoroughly articulated before project initiation.
- Validating solution designs to reduce risks by assessing feasibility, performance, and integration across hardware, controls, and software platforms.
- Acting as the main technical point of escalation throughout the execution phase, assisting project teams with problem resolution, trade studies, and corrective actions.
- Collaborating with software and technology vendors (such as NuMove) to validate capabilities, limitations, and testing methodologies, including emulation and simulation.
- Facilitating commissioning and ramp-up planning, ensuring system readiness, performance goals, and operational handoffs are well defined.
- Documenting and institutionalizing lessons learned, contributing to the enhancement of standards, templates, and reusable solution patterns.
