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, Munich, Stuttgart, 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