Solution Architect – Orbit Engineering

Purpose – Right People Doing the Right Thing Right!

This position will be responsible for the technical architecture and platform capabilities for our engineered product and will drive standardization and best practice by mapping customer processes on our product. The Solution Architect will advise on configurations and development standards. This role will be required to maintain a close partnership and collaboration with other business stakeholders example software engineering group, functional group and domain-specific subject matter experts.

Key Responsibilities of this role-

Collaborative

• Participate in deep technical architectural discussions and design exercises to optimize the product along with the Subject Matter expert and Technology Evaluator
•  Responsible for the development of new testing solutions or Improvement of the existing solution by leveraging the existing competency base or by adding new competencies
• Establish technical credibility in the sales cycle and collaborate with the Project and Delivery team to integrate features seamlessly in the product
• Liaison with marketing for need identification for new product ideas or validating new technology in the market.
• Leverage functional design teams for detailed engineering, Responsible for designing domain-specific measurement equipment by using knowledge of instrumentation and control design.
• Ability to work collaboratively with Engineering and Applications on standard and special system builds
• Work in conjunction with the functional expert to identify areas where implementation may require more solutions to be successful
• Interact with Functional engineering team (Mechanical, electrical, controls, and automation teams) to explain up to logical design flow.

Solutioning

• Responsible for complete product life cycle and training including documentation to the System engineer and System support engineer
• Responsible for complete understanding of new product requirement, conceptualizing the solution, prepare validation plan and validate the final product.
• Examine existing systems and programs to identify areas for improvement and integration
• Responsible for releasing all architectural documents including functional and logical design documents, control logic, functional requirement, solution architecture diagram, simulation, automation, and control philosophy
• Identify potential issues between systems and client specifications and propose new solutions to work around these limitations
• Responsible for User interface requirements for our Automation software platform
• Ability to build, test, troubleshoot and operate a variety of complex mechanical/electrical components, instruments and associated systems
•  Ability to read and understand all technical documentation and prints/specifications and use sophisticated measuring instruments.
• Ability to create and manufacture solutions and details to compliment the intended function of the equipment being assembled.
• Responsible for validating the solution, system concept, architecture, and design.
• Analyze and manage complexity and risk while providing optimum and effective solutions
• Develop test plans

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering – Instrumentation and Control
• knowledge of simulation software (Matlab /Simulink)
• Certification in Industrial and Product Design will be good to have but not mandatory
• Minimum of 4 years of experience as a system engineer or an instrumentation engineer
• Good understanding of System development methodology
• Previous work experience in the machine building space
• Ability to write all PLC logics (Ladder Diagram)
• Desire to grow professionally with ongoing education
• Commercial awareness

Behavioral Competencies

• Ability to conceptualize
• Self-motivated – qualified candidate will possess a high level of personal initiative and be able to work unsupervised and raise concerns as they arise
• Willingness to accept a challenge and inclined to take initiative
• Logical reasoning and solutioning