Principal Digital Architect

Not just a job but a career

Yokogawa award winner for Best Asset Monitoring Technology and Best Digital Twin Technology at the HP Awards is a leading provider of industrial automation test and measurement information systems and industrial services in several industries.

Our aim is to shape a better future for our planet through supporting the energy transition (bio)technology artificial intelligence industrial cybersecurity etc. We are committed to the United Nations sustainable development goals by utilizing our ability to measure and connect.

About the Team
Our 18000 employees work in over 60 countries with one corporate mission to co-innovate tomorrow. We are looking for dynamic colleagues who share our passion for technology and care for our return we offer you great career opportunities to grow yourself in a truly global culture where respect value creation collaboration integrity and gratitude are highly valued and exhibited in everything we do.

Role Scope & Boundaries

This role focuses on the design delivery and adoption of digital applications integrations and automation solutions built on existing enterprise platforms. While the Digital Transformation Architect partners closely with platform owners IT leadership and business stakeholders this role does not own enterprise portfolio strategy platform roadmaps or cost optimization. Responsibility is centered on solution architecture application-level design and successful execution.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Transformation

Partner with business leaders to identify evaluate and prioritize digital transformation and process improvement opportunities.

Serve as a change agent advocating for user-centered design automation and intelligent systems.

Contribute to CX and EX roadmaps by translating business needs into scalable application-level digital solutions.

Define success metrics and value hypotheses for digital initiatives in partnership with business and IT stakeholders.

Technical Ownership & Engineering Oversight

Bring hands-on technical expertise to design prototype and occasionally implement software solutions.

Expected allocation: 3040% hands-on technical work 30% architecture & design 3040% stakeholder vendor and change leadership

Provide architectural guidance and technical direction for application-level digital products integrations and internal tools.

Support and when needed contribute directly to coding efforts (e.g. automation scripts integrations proofs of concept AI-driven prototypes).

Evaluate emerging technologiesespecially in AI & AI agents automation analytics and low-code/no-codeand recommend opportunities for practical adoption.

Design and implement improved processes and operating models leveraging AI LLM and RPA technologies within environments such as SAP Salesforce Cloud or ERP in collaboration with platform owners.

Vendor Partner & Project Coordination

Manage and coordinate work with third-party development partners to ensure quality velocity and scalability.

Contribute to scoping and technical estimation for application-level initiatives supporting decisions on internal vs. external resourcing.

Act as the technical liaison between internal stakeholders and external delivery teams.

Maintain visibility into technical risks dependencies and change impacts.

User Experience & Process Optimization

Collaborate with users SMEs and process owners to analyze pain points and improve workflows.

Oversee the design and rollout of intuitive efficient and scalable solutions that enhance employee and customer journeys.

Drive adoption and change activities to ensure solutions deliver measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

Required

7 years of experience in software development solution architecture technical product management or a similar hybrid role.

Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems AI/ML or a related technical field.

Demonstrated ability to both code and lead technical delivery through others.

Experience managing or partnering with external development teams.

Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals (APIs cloud services security integration patterns data flows).

Proven track record delivering digital transformation or process improvement initiatives.

Technical expertise:

o Primary (expert in one): One modern backend or full-stack language (C# Java Python or TypeScript); cloud-native architecture (Azure preferred)

o Exposure / working knowledge: Enterprise platforms (SAP Salesforce Power Platform) automation technologies (RPA workflow engines)

Advanced knowledge of performance management process improvement and technology deployment in enterprise environments.

Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and business audiences.

Preferred

Understanding of LLMs and GenAI architectures including prompt engineering RAG patterns vector databases and AI integration pipelines.

Experience with multi-agent systems (e.g. agent coordination inter-agent communication shared knowledge task delegation).

Familiarity with human-centered design service design or design thinking practices.

Experience working in environments with complex stakeholder groups or legacy-to-modern system transitions.

Key Attributes

Strategic thinker with strong execution capability

Hands-on technologist with sound architectural judgment

Comfortable operating in ambiguity and shaping structure where needed

Naturally curious experimental and innovation-minded

Influential communicator who can drive alignment and adoption

This role is ideal for senior technologists who want to remain hands-on while shaping and delivering digital solutions in close partnership with business and IT leaderswithout people management or platform ownership responsibilities.

Yokogawa is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Yokogawa wants a diverse equitable and inclusive will actively recruit develop and promote people from a variety of backgrounds who differ in terms of experience knowledge thinking styles perspective cultural background and socioeconomic will not discriminate based on race skin color age sex gender identity and expression sexual orientation religion belief political opinion nationality ethnicity place of origin disability family relations or any other circumstances. Yokogawa values differences and enables everyone to belong contribute succeed and demonstrate their full potential.

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