First Quality

Solutions Engineer

• Serve as the primary IT advisor to Manufacturing, Quality, Warehousing, Logistics, and Automation business leaders
• Develop trusted relationships with operational stakeholders
• Translate business objectives into technology roadmaps and solution architectures
• Facilitate strategic planning for 3–5-year technology initiatives
• Manage assigned Solution Architects and their teams
• Foster cross-domain collaboration and align end-to-end process flows, data models, and integration points
• Prioritize skills development and knowledge sharing across teams
• Align individual and team objectives with measurable business outcomes
• Lead architecture and design for manufacturing applications and integrations
• Ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, and maintainable
• Develop and maintain architecture standards and reference models
• Evaluate new technologies and recommend adoption
• Provide technical leadership for MES, Quality Management Systems, material handling automation, industrial data historians, shop floor data collection, equipment integrations, and operational reporting and analytics
• Support project teams during planning, design, implementation, and deployment
• Review low-level solution designs for enterprise architecture compliance
• Identify technical risks and mitigation strategies
• Ensure continuity and successful transition across Plan, Build, Run
• Establish architecture governance for manufacturing technology
• Participate in technology standards and design reviews
• Maintain documentation, diagrams, and solution roadmaps
• Work with software vendors, systems integrators, and equipment suppliers
• Participate in software selection and proof-of-concept evaluations
• Review Statements of Work and technical deliverables
• Improve system reliability, availability, and performance
• Support business continuity and disaster recovery planning
• Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt
• Mentor solution architects, analysts, and solution engineers
• Share knowledge across IT teams and encourage architectural best practices and continuous learning

Solution Architect – Manufacturing Systems