Hybrid System Architect

at Rockwell Automation

• Job title: System Architect
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Mayfield Heights, United States

About the role

• System Architect collaborating with engineers to design next generation automation systems. Evaluating new technologies and prototyping solutions while leading technical guidance at Rockwell Automation.

Responsibilities

• Works with engineering leadership and others to understand and document the needs and uses for a system capability or a limitation in our current system.
• Documents potential approaches based on available or developing technologies to implement new approaches.
• Executes prototypes based on these approaches, or defines the investigation needs and provides technical oversight and guidance to a team executing the prototyping.
• Participates in or drives negotiations on objectives and requirements.
• Writes requirements.
• Evaluates technology solutions.
• Creates the system design.
• Provides cost/benefit recommendations.
• Contributes to or develops architectural designs and independently develops complex system designs that meet the requirements.
• Considers tradeoffs between requirements, speed, cost and reliability in the choice of a design approach.
• Provides options for multi-phased development and delivery of outcomes.
• Interacts with Product Architects to communicate system design, interface requirements and functional requirements.
• Leads or participates in reviews of documents, designs, code, test cases and user documentation.
• Does advance work, including requirements, on a feature before a development team is in place.
• Keeps informed of new developments in the embedded systems engineering and computer engineering fields and disseminates appropriately through the organization.
• Identifies and participates in technical developmental training opportunities.
• Researches, considers, and explores new possibilities utilizing the latest technologies and standards.
• May function as a go-to person for a technology, software methodology or other area of expertise. Consults on or drives adoption across multiple teams.
• Drives or contributes to capability improvement in the areas of software development practices and development tools.
• Clearly communicates and conveys design concepts, both verbally and written.
• Also able to learn and understand complex control system concepts.
• Effectively teams with others through mutually supportive professional relationships, open and direct communications, honesty and respect. Able to cope with and leverage stylistic differences and differences of opinion.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Years of Relevant Work Experience.
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S.
• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience.
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or Electrical Engineering.
• Experience in embedded systems using GPU's for executing parallel calculations.
• Experience developing novel technological approaches to engineering problems associated with creating solutions for the market.
• Demonstrated experience in Industrial Controls.
• Experience operating in a Scaled Agile Framework environment.
• Ability to work with geographically diverse teams.

Benefits

• Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401k
• Paid Time off
• Parental and Caregiver Leave
• Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can be flexible with your personal life.