Technical Director System Solution Architect - Factory Automation

Technical Director System Solution Architect - Factory Automation

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Locations: Sophia-Antipolis (Valbonne)

Time Type: Full time

Posted on: Posted 11 Days Ago

Job Requisition ID: R-10055496

The future starts here! Ready to join NXP’s new Industrial and IOT Systems Engineering and Marketing team (ISEM)?

To accelerate our business in Industrial and IOT, NXP has recently formed the ISEM team to drive system level solutions in key segments. We are now looking for a dynamic candidate who works closely with our key customers to define and implement compelling Factory Automation Solutions supporting our goal to outgrow the market.

The industrial market is highly fragmented. In addition, our customers are facing fast increasing levels of complexity with increasing amounts of technologies to manage and integrate. The ISEM is charted to provide system level solutions that reduce complexity for our customers and enable us to scale in this fragmented space.

We are the system level partner to the Product lines and Regional Sales, and together we cover all aspects from system solutions, products, and platforms as well as accounts and regions.

Your responsibilities

• As the Segment System Architect for Factory Automation, the main responsibilities are to define winning system solutions and provide input to product lines on requirements for new developments.
• Furthermore, there are four areas of responsibility:
• Establish segment strategy: Own and drive the definition and implementation of all technical aspects of NXP's system strategy for Factory Automation.
• Deliver solutions: Define and implement system level solutions at our customers with products from the product lines.
• Build leadership: Create close technical relationships at our key customers for NXP to become the trusted advisor.
• Scale: Scale system solutions from top customers into the mass market.
• As the system architect, you identify the key customer technical challenges from a customer use case perspective, establish system-based solutions, and drive the process for developing and implementing these solutions at our customers.
• The ISEM team is working closely with the product lines, using the products and software they develop to build system solutions, reference designs, and proof of concepts.
• You own and drive the input to the product lines on requirements for new developments, to match the segment needs and go to market strategy.

This role reports directly to the ISEM Chief Architect and has a dotted line to the segment lead for factory automation solutions.

To be successful in this role you have:

• Extensive experience in Factory automation, with deep understanding of technologies, trends, and needs.
• Senior System Architect with experience ideally from a company operating in developing factory automation solutions.
• Extensive experience in defining, developing, and implementing factory automation and robotic HW/SW systems, ideally with a strong SW background.
• Experience in motor control, industrial communication networks, and functional safety.
• Strong management skills with a team-first mentality. Strong ability to work cross-functionally, across many stakeholders to drive towards common goals and objectives.
• Ability to engage with key C-level stakeholders at customer to build trust and confidence.
• Thorough understanding of NXP customer systems, including both software and hardware, with ability to understand the key complexities and translate them to system solutions we can develop and scale into the mass market.
• Experience in working with global teams in matrix organizations.

Furthermore, you are:

• Innovator finding break-through solutions for complex industry problems.
• Driving for continuous improvements. We can always do better and raise the bar.