IOT ARCHITECT COVER LETTER TEMPLATE

• Solution architect and focal point for Business and IT for concepts and plans of new and existing services and products for the necessary planning of solutions/services.
• Ensure completeness and understanding of business requirements from the respective Product Owners/Product Managers/ISD Business Analyst (BA) in the product definition document via a proper feedback loop, list of queries for ambiguity, and organizing the necessary briefing and feedback forums with key stakeholders to ensure all angles are covered in the business requirements.
• Explore solutions, products, or service plan options with vendors, solution architects and ISD to come up with the designs and options that are cost-effective and timely, with good service/customer experience (reliable and consistent), scalable and integrated from a platform/solution perspective.
• Deliver the product plan/solutions documentation from the final product definition documents for onward detail design and implementation
• Ensure completeness of Detailed Design Documents and Method of Procedure for implementation/rollout.
• Ensure completeness of Feasibility Assessments/Impact Assessments for Business Initiatives/Customer Experience Improvement before business case approval
• Ensure the business forecast is given to ensure a complete assessment for network capacity and service planning
• Liaison with network and technology engineers/designers for complete assessment deliverables.
• Provide the necessary and periodic network updates and service insights to the Business
• Work on enabling the required analytics/reports for business to plan new products, attack key segments, address eroding trends, manage data explosion and improve customer experience.
• Improve customer experience and reduce customer complaints
• Benchmark against competitors to ensure Maxis maintains network leadership.
• Identify and implement key initiatives and suggestions that can improve the overall product delivery life cycle, cost of delivery and product delivery/management process.

Skills: Solution Design, Business Analysis, Stakeholder Management, Vendor Collaboration, Technical Documentation, Feasibility Assessment, Network Planning, Customer Experience

• Build reliability into the existing service areas through sensor health, IO, server health, data collection, and data flows that yield highly reliable remote services.
• Work closely with the CSC service product owner to build and deploy specific products
• Developing the product roadmap that meets the defined vision
• Facilitating the adoption and achieving the desired impact from the product
• Being the voice of the customer and being accountable to the business for results
• Monitor advancements in the marketplace and facilitate decisions related to buy vs build
• Work closely with the IT cybersecurity team to ensure proper access, authentication, and usage of ITOT assets
• Work with the enterprise architecture team to establish technical standards that facilitate scaling products across like assets and facilities quickly

Skills: Service Reliability, Product Development, Roadmap Planning, Product Adoption, Customer Advocacy, Market Analysis, Cybersecurity Compliance, Technical Standardization

• Act as an escalation point to ensure timely access to and coordination of supporting resources to ensure on-time deliverables and reliable service levels.
• Ensure ITOT in the product areas is functioning efficiently and effectively on a 24/7 basis across operating facilities.
• Ensure that technologies and architectures are functionally, technically, and commercially advantaged
• Stay informed with hardware, connectivity, data, application, model, user experience challenges, and advancing and changing requirements
• Maintain an ITOT development and deployment backlog/roadmap/schedule by facility and facilitate on-time delivery as services are scaled to new sites.
• Create structure and processes in fast fast-paced agile environment
• Influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
• Define and establish data and process governance in collaboration with other SMEs

Skills: Incident Management, Service Reliability, Technology Optimization, Continuous Improvement, Project Scheduling, Process Development, Cross-Functional Leadership, Data Governance

• Lead the team from the front and be able to inspire thought leadership
• Work with Smart Cities Strategist and CTO on roadmap for IoT and Cloud Solutions for the business, staying ahead of technology advancements
• IoT understanding from a connectivity and data management perspective
• Understand customers’ technical and business requirements to produce a comprehensive plan for technical architectures, deployment plans, etc.
• Know the different Azure IoT services, from IoT Hubs to Azure IoT ML/AI services.
• Lead the transformation of user stories and epics to deployable solutions
• Design and develop IoT solutions
• Detailed technical requirements and specifications for IoT platforms (communication devices, embedded software, edge computing, cloud computing)
• Develop comprehensive solutions that span instrument, edge, and cloud applications
• Technical governance and design review.
• Collaborate across, technology, marketing, and service delivery teams

Skills: Technical Leadership, IoT Architecture, Cloud Solutions, Customer Requirements, Azure Expertise, Solution Development, Technical Specification, Cross-Team Collaboration

• Evaluate and propose an IoT technology and architecture platform by either leading or implementing proof of concepts
• Evaluate partner solutions and recommend prospective partnership opportunities across the IoT stack
• Architect, design, and develop high-performing and reliable software components and applications with technologies including C, C++, HTML5, JavaScript, C#.NET, and Node.js
• Work and collaborate with other software and hardware design team members to develop innovative products and applications
• Lead the definition of system functional requirements
• Research, assess and maintain new technology roadmap necessary for future enhancements of products
• Design and develop high-performance and reliable software products and services
• Protect intellectual property through patent disclosures and applications

Skills: IoT Architecture, Technology Evaluation, Partnership Management, Software Development, System Requirements, Technology Research, Product Innovation, Intellectual Property

• Experience of IT platform implementation in a highly technical and analytical role
• Experience in application architecture, database architecture, and networking
• Experience working with customers to implement large-scale IoT solutions.
• Experience in an Architect role or equivalent. 
• Experience collaborating across internal and external organizations, including sales, other architects, and customers.
• Demonstrated experience leading or developing high-quality, enterprise-scale software products using a structured system development life cycle
• Experience in one or more specific IoT/embedded/M2M industry (i.e. home automation, business automation, health, asset tracking, smart utilities, etc.)
• Experience with embedded or real-time operating systems, and/or driver/kernel development
• Experience programming applications backed by cloud services
• Intermediate/advanced knowledge of the cloud services, market segments, customer base and industry verticals
• Understanding of IoT technologies, trends and communications protocols
• Current hands-on implementation experience 
• Ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges in an enterprise environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences

Qualifications: BS in Computer Engineering with 10 years of Experience

• Experience in full-stack software development (writing code in production applications for external customers)
• Experience as a technical project manager or similar
• Experience in developing system architectures
• Methodological knowledge in modern software development (e.g., Agile, Scrum, DevOps, SAFe)
• Strong communication skills, systematic personality with conceptual abilities and a high level of initiative
• Team player as well as enjoy working in a multidisciplinary environment
• Enthusiastic, proactive and innovative personality with drive
• Fluent English and good German skills

Qualifications: BS in Electrical Engineering with 7 years of Experience

• Expertise in several key IoT technology spaces, including embedded systems, network topologies, transport protocols, cloud computing, stream processing, data management, analytics, security, identity management, and app dev.
• Product development experience
• Good understanding of available technologies and understanding of trends in Software development, AI, AR, and connectivity
• Proficient in the following applications, including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint, SAP, and data analytics
• Be able to explain the integration and I/O flow throughout the entire solution.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to effectively present the architecture, suite of IoT solutions, and its products and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, and customers.
• Excellent communication skills with a strong customer service, action-orientation.
• Be able to adapt effectively in a fast-paced, changing environment.
• Interpersonal skills to coordinate, negotiate, build consensus, and resolve issues
• Demonstrated learning and leadership of the Ascend strategy and the NBS Next growth framework
• Ability to set overall goals, break them down into a series of tasks and multitask
• Ability to listen to others, communicate effectively and provide leadership
• Ability to work in highly technical multi-disciplinary settings
• Ability to integrate the disparate technologies listed above. 

Qualifications: BS in Information Technology with 12 years of Experience

• Experience of IT platform implementation in a highly technical and analytical role
• Experience in application architecture, database architecture, and networking
• Experience working with customers to implement large-scale IoT solutions.
• Demonstrated experience leading or developing high-quality, enterprise-scale software products using a structured system development life cycle
• Experience in one or more specific IoT/embedded/M2M industry (i.e., home automation, business automation, health, asset tracking, smart utilities, etc.)
• Experience with embedded or real-time operating systems, and/or driver/kernel development
• Experience programming applications backed by cloud services
• Experience in an Architect role or equivalent. 
• Experience collaborating across internal and external organizations, including sales, other architects, and customers.
• Understanding of IoT technologies, trends and communications protocols
• Intermediate/advanced knowledge of the cloud services, market segments, customer base, and industry verticals
• Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences
• Ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges in an enterprise environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Qualifications: BS in Software Engineering with 10 years of Experience

• Experience in cloud platform implementation in a highly technical and analytical role.
• Demonstrable experience in a technical or architectural lead role.
• Experience delivering successful cloud projects in either AWS, Azure, or IBM Cloud.
• Experience using IoT and edge computing from a major cloud provider
• Experience using CI/CD and DevOps
• Experience in architecting and implementing a serverless AWS/IoT environment
• Experience in integrating firmware, connected devices, and applications into the AWS environment
• Deep understanding of IoT Platforms’ needed capabilities and services, and experience in defining architecture
• Ability to establish and maintain client relationships
• Good knowledge of the English language
• Successful execution of IIoT Projects with respect to the whole Connectivity Stack (Sensor, Edge Device, Data Collection/Processing/Visualization)

Qualifications: BS in Computer Science with 11 years of Experience