Solution Architecture & Design: Architect end-to-end technical blueprints that balance client requirements with budget, timelines, and technical constraints. Ensure designs prioritize scalability, high availability, and security.
Pre-Sales & Client Consultation: Partner with the business development team to lead technical discovery sessions, evaluate RFP (Request for Proposal) requirements, and build high-level solution concepts and cost estimates.
Technology Selection: Evaluate, benchmark, and choose appropriate tech stacks (Embedded systems, SoC/MCU/Controllers, Interface chipsets, Communication Protocols, libraries, operating systems and third-party integrations) tailored to specific client industries. Focus on System architecture from electronics hardware, embedded firmware and mechanical with emphasis on Industrial and Automotive use cases, consumer/prosumer, security & surveillance perspective.
Technical Governance & Mentorship: Act as the technical North Star for engineering teams. Review code/architecture, establish engineering best practices, and help troubleshoot complex bottlenecks.
Proof of Concept (PoC) Development: Hands-on creation of prototypes and PoCs to validate architectural theories and minimize technical risk before scale-up.
Stakeholder Communication: Translate highly complex technical layouts into plain, value-driven language for non-technical stakeholders and executive client boards.
Required Technical Skills & Qualifications
Education: Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
Experience: 8+ years in Embedded hardware/software engineering or systems design, with at least 3+ years specifically in an architectural or client-facing consultant capacity (preferably within an agency, consultancy, or engineering service firm).
Hardware Proficiency: Advanced expertise in complete product design life cycle with hands on experience on component selection, schematic, layout design, thermal, signal integrity, power integrity, high speed interfaces, RF / Radar technologies and various wireless interfaces.
Software Experience: Strong software development experience in embedded systems, with practical exposure to RTOS, Linux, and Android OS environments across the complete embedded product development lifecycle.
Modern Paradigms: Deep understanding of microservices, event-driven architectures, serverless computing, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
Certification and Production: Strong grip regulatory compliance and standards. Experience working on production line testing and test fixtures.
Required Soft Skills
Consultative Mindset: Ability to quickly understand changing client business models across varying verticals (e.g., Automotive, Industrial, Healthcare, Consumer).
Ambiguity Management: Comfortable stepping into legacy systems with poor documentation and mapping out modernization roadmaps.
Influence Without Authority: Proven ability to guide cross-functional developer teams and gain trust from client leadership.
What Success Looks Like in the Solution Architect Role
Unlike product-firm roles, your success metrics are directly tied to client delivery and efficiency and business growth.
Win-Rate Support
Assisting sales teams to win new accounts by presenting unshakeable, cost-effective technical pitches.
Architectural Rigor
Ensuring zero systemic architectural failures or security breaches across deployed client environments.
Time-to-Market
Accelerating the ramp-up time of engineering teams by providing clean, unambiguous documentation and starter blueprints.
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Location
DE-NW-North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Remote
Time Type
Full time
Job Category
Engineering Services
