Siemens Schweiz AG
Smart Building - Customer Solution Architect 80-100%
Together with our customers, we combine the real and digital worlds
With technology, software and services for smart buildings, we transform the everyday for everyone. By combining the real and digital worlds, we empower our customers to reach their decarbonization goals, lower their operating costs and create world-class occupant experiences for their people. It’s not just about improving buildings – it’s about creating efficient, safe, adaptable and sustainable environments, which improve the way the world lives and works.
The digital transformation of buildings is a fast-changing, dynamic sector, and it needs more than just great technology - it needs great people, too. We know a business only thrives if its people are thriving, so at Siemens we put our people first.
Within our buildings business, our distributed team will support you through your career and challenge you to grow in new and exciting ways, as we transform the world’s infrastructure.
Our shared journey could take you anywhere … where would you like to go?
We are looking for a new colleague to join our Scalable Customer Architectures team to expand our practice around our smart building platform “Building X”; our end-to-end IoT platform for buildings which includes open AI enabled applications and creates the potential to redefine how building-data is handled and what can be generated from it.
In this role, you will work closely with our sales and pre-sales teams to support customers on their digital transformation journeys of building infrastructures. As a Smart Building - Customer Solution Architect, you will collaborate with decision-makers at various levels, from operational teams to senior stakeholders, to develop solutions that align with customer needs and business goals.
Your new responsibilities
- Collaborate with sales teams to understand customer needs and analyze sales opportunities (e.g., customer strategies, solution requirements, etc.)
- Assist in preparing presentations to align Siemens' and customers' visions on the business impact of a digital transformation
- Prepare, and lead value-based customer workshops to gather insights into customers’ business objectives and challenges
- Identify customer’s main challenges relatable to Siemens Smart Infrastructure’s solutions
- Translate customer outcomes and objectives into tangible use cases
- Define a secure and scalable edge-to-cloud technical solution architecture to be implemented to realize the customer target use cases, business outcomes and objectives
- Collaborate with Bid Management team to create proposals
- Coordinate with regional and local teams for seamless project handover
- Provide feedback to global portfolio teams on market needs and insights related to Building X
Your skills and experience
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer science, economics or relevant business experience
- Profound expertise of smart building technologies
- Long-term experience in solution architectures in general and cloud architectures in particular
- Good knowledge of IoT platforms, preferable within the building technologies industry
- Practical experience in delivering consulting services to end customers, including customer co-creation and design-thinking workshops
- Familiarity with use cases co-creation
- Familiarity with Platform-as-a-Service and Software-as-a-Service environments is beneficial
- Flexibility to work in a constantly changing work environment and with a geographically distributed team
- Proactive, independent attitude, team-player and able to build trust with internal and external partners
- Ability to look beyond the customer requirements, challenge the status quo and find new innovative solutions to solve customer’s struggles
- Excellent communication and presentation abilities in English. German and any additional European language would be beneficial
Location: qualified candidates need a valid work permit for the respective country. Relocation to another country is not planned
Employee benefits: local benefits apply
What it’s like working for us
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