Sr. Specialist Solution Architect

Sr. Specialist Solution Architect

What we offer:

At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.

Group Summary:

Transforming mobility. Making automotive technology that is smarter, cleaner, safer and lighter. That is what Magna Powertrain is passionate about, creating world-class powertrain systems for the global automotive industry with full capabilities in design, development, testing and manufacturing of complex powertrain systems.

About the role:

As a Senior Specialist Solution Architect, you are responsible for the design, continuous refinement, and governance of solution and target architectures within the MPT IT landscape. In close collaboration with business, IT, and OT stakeholders, you ensure that technological solutions are implemented in alignment with the overall strategy, sustainably, and with future readiness in mind.

Your responsibilities:

• Driving the development and continuous enhancement of enterprise and solution architecture principles in close collaboration with experts from IT and OT environments
• Conducting business and system analyses across multiple domains to identify opportunities for optimization, digitalization, integration, and modernization
• Defining and aligning target architectures together with business, IT, and OT stakeholders
• Evaluating architecture-relevant demands within the demand management process, ensuring compliance with architecture principles, IT strategy, security and integration requirements
• Designing and developing solution architectures with a focus on IoT-related solutions and applications in administrative business areas, considering hybrid infrastructures such as on-premises, edge, and cloud
• Ensuring architectural guidance and governance throughout project implementation
• Ensuring architectural transparency and quality by maintaining relevant architecture artifacts in LeanIX
• Coaching and enabling business, IT, and OT stakeholders

What we are looking for:

• A degree in computer science, business informatics, or a comparable qualification
• More than 10 years of relevant professional experience in an IT environment, ideally within the automotive or manufacturing industry
• Several years of hands-on experience in architecture-related disciplines such as solution architecture, enterprise architecture, business analysis, demand management, or requirements and software engineering
• Strong understanding of IoT architectures and hybrid IT landscapes, including on-premises, edge, and cloud
• Certifications in IT architecture or IT service management, such as ITIL, are an advantage
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, along with the ability to present complex architectural topics in a structured and audience-appropriate manner
• Willingness to combine strategic, conceptual, and implementation-oriented tasks, including international travel

Awareness, Unity, Empowerment:

Magna is an equal opportunity employer and hires on the basis of experience, qualifications and job requirements. Magna takes the privacy of personal information seriously and discourages applications via email or traditional mail to comply with GDPR requirements and local data privacy law.

Worker Type: Regular / Permanent

Group: Magna Powertrain