Job Description

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Rail Infrastructure, one of three businesses within Siemens Mobility Limited UKI, supports the UK & Irish rail industries through the design, manufacture, implementation and support of innovative and safety-critical train control solutions, rail traffic management, fixed and mobile telecommunications, electrification, station security and passenger communications solutions and intermodal applications. We are dedicated to helping operators transform passenger and freight transportation to help support the UK\xe2\x80\x99s drive for net zero.

The role

The Digital Solutions Architect role is an exciting and multifaceted role, providing an opportunity to be at the forefront of new technology deployment within our business and deliver real impact in the UKI rail industry.

As a key member of the Rail Infrastructure (RI) UKI Digitalisation & Innovation function, the Digital Solutions Architect will work closely with our customers, partners, digital technology teams, domain experts across the Siemens business, and the Sales and Bids and Tendering teams to develop digital services and solutions to transform passenger experience, improve operational performance, and drive carbon and cost reduction within the UK railway.

Using their in-depth technical knowledge of cloud and digital platforms and systems, and strong customer and stakeholder engagement skills, the Digital Solutions Architect will be responsible for the technically and commercially sustainable design of our digitalisation solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical analysis of multi-layered systems and solutions, benchmarking with existing Siemens UK and global solutions, identifying interrelationships and leading the design methodologies and implementation of scalable digital architectures.
• Supporting the evaluation of short-term development priorities and development of the RI UKI digitalisation solutions roadmap to ensure we meet our customers\xe2\x80\x99 needs now, and in the future.
• Experience leading assessments of existing systems and solutions and wrap proposals to be evaluated and build robust, sustainable, and scalable connected digital solutions.
• Analysing challenges, development issues and constraints, recommending solutions and defining engineering, lead cost and sub-contract support requirements.
• Designing and updating Standard System Configurations for our digital products, services and solutions and working with the engineering team to integrate into our customer proposals.
• Supporting the Sales, Finance and Commercial teams to develop sustainable commercial models and business cases for investment.
• Helping the Marketing team promote our digitalisation offerings with engaging customer, industry and internal campaigns.

What do I need to qualify for this job?

• Relevant degree qualification and commensurate experience in digital technologies, systems engineering, data and platform integration, in rail or similar technically and commercially complex industry.
• Excellent relationship building and influencing skills with the ability to translate and communicate technical solutions into business and customer benefits.
• Experience in leading and supporting cross-disciplinary teams to develop solutions and value engineering methodologies, focused on customer and business needs.
• Innovative, creative, proactive and agile, able to adapt quickly to changing market and internal requirements, ambiguity and change.
• Highly self-motivated with strong time management, prioritisation and planning.

About us

We\xe2\x80\x99re Siemens. A collection of over 377,000 great minds who are all making the future and you could be one of them. We have offices across the UK, full of talented individuals helping us to challenge the today and work towards a brighter tomorrow.

Want to join us and be a Future Maker?

We\xe2\x80\x99re excited to hear that you would like to join us here at Siemens. Our people love it here and we want you to be a part of helping us make real, what matters.

We are looking forward to receiving your online application. Please ensure you complete all areas, of the application form, to the best of your ability to help us review your suitability for the role. We will be in contact as soon as possible with an update on your application.

What else do I need to know?

The benefits package for this role includes not only a generous base salary, but an annual bonus. We know that not everyone\xe2\x80\x99s lifestyle is the same, so we operate a flexible benefits scheme where you can tailor your benefits package to suit you.

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