Mes Solution Architect

**Position Overview**:
**Primary Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Provide technical support for proof of concepts and demonstration/prototypes
- Work with Pre-Sales and Account Managers on opportunities within the country, engage early in the process with internal or external customer stakeholders to support the analysis of the customer's business goals, objectives and needs, the general business environment and how the initiative will impact or integrate with other initiatives (i.e. Supply chain, lean manufacturing, etc.)
- Provide input into, and generate documentation, to support rough order of magnitude (ROM) and Statement of work (SOW) creation
- Establish, build and maintain effective relationships with internal or external customers technical peers and build new relationships through networking within the customer and other involved parties to support effective delivery
- Provide information and feedback to internal or external customers in a timely, accurate and appropriate manner, as required by defined project activities, ensuring that key messages are communicated effectively

**Project Delivery**:

- Understand the context of the customer project, its contract type, key deliverables and the engagement model
- Understand the purpose of the project, its work breakdown and its relationship to the overall internal or external customers solution
- Where required, contribute to estimate time frames, work package breakdown, capability definitions and quantity of resources estimates required to successfully implement the project
- Provide accurate and timely information to project management team as required
- Contribute to the generation of relevant level of project support documentation in line with Engineering or customer Project Management Methodology as required
- Contribute to quality and phase gate reviews as required
- Where required, contribute to the review of technical implementation experiences with project delivery team, capturing and sharing lessons learnt as part of the project review and close activities
- Develop, motivate, and direct staff to create a team environment
- Work closely with project management to ensure architectural alignment with project goals and requirements and ensure deliveries progress alignment with plans
- Collaborate with project management on reporting project status, issues, risks and benefits
- Keep service managers aware of key customer issues, identifying and resolving potential problems and conflicts

**Skills Requirements**:

- Excellent knowledge of MES SYSTEMS (I.E., Rockwell Factory Talk PharmaSuite, Siemens OpCenter Pharma, or WERUM PAS-X)
- MES interface with 3rd party systems like automation systems (e.g. DeltaV, Siemens PCS7, Siemens SIMATIC Batch, Rockwell PLCs/SCADA)
- Programming languages (C#, Java, C++, VBA/VBScript, Python)
- Knowledge of software release management on multiple environments (e.g. DEV, QA, PROD) including but not limited to handling of pool requests, merge operations, solution building, deployment, unit testing, regression testing
- Experience with Team Foundation Server and/or Jira is strongly recommended
- Good knowledge of business standards, compliance & ethics approaches, understanding their drivers and challenges, delivering basic tasks professionally, and ensuring professional behavior of others
- Builds positive and productive relationships required to effectively deliver a standard project
- Actively participates in providing practices, feedback and lessons learnt to support continual improvement
- Demonstrates ability to resist pressures to take shortcuts or compromise compliance or ethics in order to deliver business results.
- Understand and demonstrate how Engineering Industries eXcellence services will impact and integrate with customers' initiatives, business drivers, value and impact.
- Set and manage stakeholders' expectations, demonstrating thought leadership to effectively influence key contacts and recommend solutions
- Demonstrates a thorough professional know-how in Technical Consulting, based on practical, demonstrable experience including a thorough understanding of Technical Consulting practices and standards
- Contributes to process improvement for Technical Consulting, providing feedback on the use of processes, systems and tools in real world situations
- Focuses on mentoring others to improve Technical Consulting delivery across the business, proactively sharing knowledge to transfer expertise
- Work under self-management to determine solutions, methods and procedures on enterprise assignments/projects of highest complexity and diverse scope that require specialist architectural expertise and leadership

**Recommended Qualifications**

**Experience**:

- Must be able to legally work in the United States
- Minimum 10 years of experience in engineering and/or manufacturing processes for design and development of solutions
- 10 years of experience working in a customer facing environment
- Technical Lea