Senior Control Systems Architect

Senior Control Systems Architect

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
• Ability to travel, including internationally, up to 10%.

Responsibilities

• Design control systems architecture, functional interfaces and define system integration requirements, while partnering with other architects to support a common architecture vision and strategy.
• Stay abreast on current and accelerating new technologies, best practices, and contemporary motor control engineering tools and methodologies.
• Design control subsystems that balance the following goals: performance, simplicity, development time and effort, reusability, extendibility, and reliability. Review the subsystem and system designs of others for possible effects on system performance.
• Collaborate with peer systems architects in other BUs, in particular, our motion business and SIC to create a common architecture vision. Collaborate with subject matter experts to facilitate delivery of simplified and unique products and solutions that solve real-world customer problems at the best cost points.
• Create system and product level architectural documents that explain the functionality and interfaces between components at the right level for implementation by engineering.
• Create proof of concept deliverables, define logical work sequencing, and map a clear process for product integration.
• Be an independent voice in liaising between product management and functional/technical leads within the business to clarify requirements, understanding concepts and issues, and resolving problems and anomalies. Influence decisions within multiple teams across Rockwell Automation.
• Develop a product, system, and customer view. Be an abstract thinker and step away from the details to look at ‘the big picture’ and conveys architectural vision.
• Demonstrate expertise through customer support, presentations, and white papers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Typically requires 8+ years system level design experience in motor control systems.
• Experience working as a design and technical leader who builds partnerships in a matrixed environment and directs the activities of other employees.
• Significant experience building motor control systems in Simulink.
• Expertise in motor control engineering technology development.
• Expertise in active front ends.
• Possesses an understanding of how customers use motor drive products and how they fit into target applications and system environments.
• Understands the competitive landscape for our technology and products.
• Graduate degree relevant to control systems or equivalent in-depth knowledge and experience.
• Breath of knowledge and expertise across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Embedded systems experience.