Solution Architect - MES

Job Summary about the area and the role:

Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions (VWTS) is a worldwide leader in water recovery, treatment, and reuse. We design and supply a range of water systems, from food and beverage applications, to municipal water, to microelectronics ultrapure water and heavy industrial wastewater treatment. We serve more than 50,000 customers worldwide and treat more than 11 million cubic meters of water every day. We simply aim to be the benchmark company for ecological transformation across the world.

At VWTS, we realize diverse teams make smarter decisions, deliver better results, and build stronger communities. We are an organization that champions diversity and inclusion at every rung of the ladder and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We offer challenging and meaningful careers, with competitive benefits and flexible work arrangements.

The Solution Architect for Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) will be responsible for the solution governance and architecture for the digital tools used by the Supply Chain and Operations functions for the business. In close collaboration between other IT stakeholders, business process owners, and other manufacturing leaders, this role will set the overall technical roadmap, solution integrations, and data flow to and from the MES solution, which includes GE Proficy and other applications related to manufacturing operations management.

Key Characteristics:

• Develop and maintain solution architecture by leading solution definition, solution architecture reviews, solution selection efforts and adherence to architectural processes and team plan and strategy.
• Provide governance, strategic consultation and recommendation for business process design, business intelligence design, software development, application frameworks or interfaces during the design and ongoing care of solutions.
• Partner with business leadership to understand how data will be leveraged as a competitive advantage and promote architectural methods and solutions to enable business value.
• Review new projects and architecture solutions, ensuring they are aligned with enterprise architecture and meet financial targets.
• Maintain knowledge of industry trends and utilize knowledge to educate both information technology and the business on opportunities to build better target architectures that support and drive business decisions.
• Develop a reference architecture that includes data domain specifications.
• Document how data flows from its origination and acquisition points.
• Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with client partners, acting as a consultant, to understand their capabilities, desired maturities, and process requirements and translate them into system designs and functional solutions for manufacturing operations management
• Prepare detailed architectural frameworks and specification documents to assist the technical team in the development of GE Proficy and Plant Systems.
• Assess and design scalable best in breed/emerging technologies. Make non-MES solution recommendations where applicable contributing to the broader platform application lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with external third-party vendor partners to meet understanding product roadmaps
• Support operations technology (OT) projects that are not directly related to MES
• Apply and adhere to IT standards including; security, data privacy, quality, project management and process
• Deliver quality solutions within scope and timeline
• Business and IT stakeholders management

Hard Skills:

• 9+ years demonstrable application and infrastructure knowledge of cloud based MES solutions (MES)
• Hands-on experience in participating 2-3 complete implementations in an Architect role
• Advanced understanding of all manufacturing operations management
• Proven ability to drive operational analytics and reportings from data historians with appropriate level of details for stakeholders
• Verifiable knowledge of integration methodologies into operations technology (OT) environments such as OPC-UA and information technology environments such as API.
• Possess creative thinking and problem-solving skills to produce impactful and innovative designs
• Ability to understand and translate complex concepts with clarity and simplicity.
• Experience contributing and leading multi-functional project delivery
• Experience with multinational enterprise environments, working with multicultural global teams, delivering MES solutions through project implementations.
• Demonstrate ability to perform detail-oriented work with a high degree of accuracy
• Basic knowledge of project management

Soft Skills:

• Inclusive: Passion for working in different cultures and environments, in a collaborative organization with a diversity team.
• Team Player: Ability to work with others toward a shared goal, participating actively, accountable and committed to the entire team respecting peers, leadership, stakeholders, and clients.                                             
• Inspirational: Excellent oral and written communication skills: Communicate clearly and professionally with Supply Chain and Finance professionals within the organization being able to inspire others.
• Decision Maker: Challenge the status quo and make decisions based on your role to be an effective problem solver and use critical thinking skills to find new ideas and connect them to provide the best practices and tools to our stakeholders and clients.
• Flexibility: Adapt and respond to the changing environment and to constructively create opportunities for change through active participation. Continuous learning and curiosity.
• Proven ability to lead and influence people, both directly and indirectly, Able to lead/execute change

Required:

• Bachelors degree in engineering, computer science or information technology
• Minimum of 13 years total experience
• Experience in architecture and collaborating with regional and global projects teams to define business requirements and delivery solutions that meet business goals
• Experience in developing integrated solutions involving, process, data, and technology
• Knowledge and ability to support translation of business needs into solution architecture requirements, application of multiple technical solutions to business problems and estimation of the financial impact of solution architecture alternatives
• Experience as a full stack architect with software development
• Strong conceptual, strategic thinking, problem solving, technical and analytical skills
• Proven ability to work effectively with a global organization that operates using matrix management structures
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English

Preferred:

• Knowledge of all components of enterprise architecture
• Experience using General Electrics (GE) Proficy
• Experience with International Standards of Automation (ISA) framework
• Excellent project management, planning, and organizational skills
• Experience in business strategy development
• Knowledge and experience in water technology, utility, engineering, or manufacturing environment
• Experience with business process design
• Preferred global experience

Working Conditions available for travel up to 10%