Your mission
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 IT–OT 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: Head of Sales (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 (IT–OT)
- Co-create enterprise IT–OT architectures with customers
- 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, edge, 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 OT 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
- Focus on software-defined automation and Physical AI
- 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
Your profile
Experience & Background
- Many years strong experience as Enterprise Architect, Solution / Platform Architect, or Digital or IT–OT Transformation Architect
- Proven exposure to large enterprise environments
- Experience working in automation domains
- Familiarity with cloud and enterprise IT architectures, OT systems and shopfloor realities, industrial robots and autonomous moving robots, and platform and ecosystem-based models
- Ideally, you are based in one of the following regions: Rhine-Main, Berlin, Munich, Düsseldorf, or Cologne/Bonn
Skills & Strengths
- Ability to operate credibly with board-level stakeholders, CIO / CDO / CTO organizations, and OT and engineering teams
- Strong facilitation and workshop leadership skills
- Excellent abstraction and structuring capability
- Comfortable working in ambiguity and shaping clarity
Mindset
- Business-outcome driven, not technology-first
- Platform thinker, not project executor
- Curious, structured, and pragmatic
- Strong sense of ownership and responsibility for customer success
What success looks like in this role
- Customers clearly understand why and how Wandelbots fits into their enterprise architecture
- Enterprise stakeholders align across business, IT, and OT
- PoVs are designed for scale, not isolation
- Expansion opportunities are identified early and credibly
- Wandelbots is seen as a long-term platform partner
Why us?
- You help define how Physical AI is adopted at enterprise scale
- You work at the intersection of strategy, architecture, and business impact
- You influence board-level platform decisions
- You contribute directly to enterprise trust and IPO readiness
