Solution Architect

About us

Siemens
We are a technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare. By combining the real and the digital worlds, we empower our customers to transform their industries and markets, helping them to transform the everyday for billions of people.

Job description, responsibilities and duties

Our IT Software Business delivery team needs a Solution Architect to join our growing team. We are looking for a professional with experience in both information technology and business processes, especially focused on entitlement generation, activation of software licenses and selling software as service. The successful applicant will define solution designs and architectural runaway that will help build IT solutions for the entire software business related processes. The ideal candidate for this position is innovative, analytical, highly organized and excellent problem-solver.

Your new responsibilities and duties

• Conduct architectural evaluation, design and analysis of software business related IT applications and systems
• Analyse business needs/requirements in close collaboration with subject matter experts and explore solution alternatives
• Define subsystems and their interfaces, allocate responsibilities to subsystems, understand solution deployment and communicate requirements for interactions with solution context
• Establish critical non-functional requirements at the solution level and define enabler features/stories to improve the system performance
• Work directly with/in agile teams to implement the solution
• Participate in agile release planning, solution demos, and retrospectives
• Operate within the Value Centre to validate the economic impact of design decisions
• Work with portfolio management and the Enterprise Architect, to analyse, develop, and realize the implementation of epics
• Work with Enterprise Architects to plan and develop the Architectural Runway in support of upcoming business features/capabilities
• Ensure, supervise and foster Built-in security in IT products and services
• Responsible for product related information security topics

Your skills and experience

• 8+ years of experience in software development and deployment
• Experience with one or more of the following technologies that support SaaS applications:
• XML; Web Services  - REST API, SOAP API
• Web servers, application servers
• HTML, SMTP, SQL
• SingleSignOn (SSO)
• Security, PKI
• SAP

Previous background/exposure to:

1) Billing Platforms (Invoicing, Taxation, Digital Payments / Payment Gateway Integration)
2) eCommerce Platforms (SSO, Order Capture - Validation & Flow, Sef-Service)
3) Accounting/Finance Integration - (A/R, Bookings, Revenue), SubLedger/GL
4) Reporting (Data Modeling, Business KPI & Metrics)

• Understanding of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
• Excellent knowledge of IT systems, tools and IT Service Management Processes.
• Experience with Zuora application will be an advantage.
• Ability to work in an agile environment and deep understanding in Agile Frameworks (Scrum / SAFe)
• Upholds a sense of customer service and client satisfaction
• Excellent communication and networking skills in an intercultural environment and across all management levels
• Excellent oral and written skills in English. Good German knowledge will be an advantage

At Siemens we are always challenging ourselves to build a better future. We need the most innovative and diverse Digital Minds to develop tomorrow‘s reality. Find out more about the Digital world of Siemens here: www.siemens.com/careers/digitalminds

Required education, skills and personality requirements

Required education
University education (Bachelor's degree)

Educational Specialization
IT

Language skills

We offer

• Successful, stable, but innovative company, which makes real impact
• Newest technologies, all projects runs in agile methodology (we use SAFe)
• Great team (hard to explain in words, let`s meet us and see )
• We support trainings, cerfications and development internally and externally with individual approach based on your needs and requests. We attend also international conferences (e.g. AWS)
• Flexible working hours
• 2 days of home office per week
• 3 Sick days per year
• Bridge days (additional paid leave to our legal vacation allowance) from 4 to 9 days per year
• Sick leave compensation to 100% of salary – 20 days p.a.
• Cafeteria system - Benefit plus
• Work-life balance – stable quartal planning cyclus
• Childbirth bonus, maternity leave bonus, work anniversary present
• Additional pension savings (3. pilier)
• Team building program - offsite meeting, Christmas party, extra budget for team building events
• Siemens Share Matching Program
• Employee`s loans
• Referral program
• Company free parking
• Discount of monthly fee from our telecom provider for employees and their family member