Business Systems Architect / Integration Lead
Role Overview
Nextpower is seeking a Manufacturing Systems Product Manager to lead the integration of contract manufacturing partners with our enterprise systems and data platforms.
This role will own the business and systems roadmap required to make manufacturing transactions visible, reliable, and actionable across operations, supply chain, finance, quality, and analytics.
The role sits at the intersection of business process, systems product management, data integration, and manufacturing operations.
The successful candidate will understand how contract manufacturing processes translate into system transactions and data, then work with business stakeholders, technology teams, and external manufacturing partners to deliver scalable integrations and trusted operational insights.
This is not primarily an MES implementation or shop-floor controls role.
Key Skills for This Role
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Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Business, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience in enterprise systems, product management, systems integration, supply chain technology, manufacturing technology, data platforms, or a related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience owning technology products or capabilities from business discovery through delivery and ongoing operations.
- Strong understanding of business process design and enterprise transaction flows across manufacturing, supply chain, inventory, quality, procurement, and logistics.
- Experience integrating external partners, suppliers, contract manufacturers, or enterprise applications using APIs, files, batch processes, events, or middleware.
- Experience defining data mappings, interface requirements, validation rules, reconciliation, exception handling, and data-quality controls.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure data services and Microsoft Fabric concepts, including OneLake, Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Data Factory, SQL, data modeling, and Power BI.
- Ability to work effectively with data engineers, solution architects, developers, analysts, business users, vendors, and executive stakeholders.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to simplify complex business and technical topics.
- Strong analytical, prioritization, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Microsoft Fabric implementations, including Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, pipelines, notebooks, semantic models, Direct Lake, monitoring, security, and CI/CD.
- Experience with manufacturing systems such as MES, ERP, PLM, QMS, WMS, TMS, or supplier/partner portals.
- Familiarity with manufacturing concepts such as production orders, routings, work instructions, material consumption, genealogy, traceability, WIP, yield, defects, rework, and test results.
- Familiarity with ISA-95, OEE, manufacturing quality processes, or factory data models.
- Experience with Azure Data Factory, APIs/API management, event-driven integration, SQL/T-SQL, PySpark or Python, and data warehouse or lakehouse design.
- Experience delivering operational reporting, Power BI semantic models, manufacturing analytics, or executive dashboards.
- Experience with data governance, master data management, lineage, data contracts, and observability.
- Experience leading global partner onboarding, plant rollouts, systems standardization, or manufacturing transformation programs.
- Experience working with system integrators and technology vendors.
- Knowledge of cybersecurity and access-control practices for enterprise and manufacturing systems.
- What Success Looks Like
- Contract manufacturing partners can exchange required business transactions reliably, with clear ownership and rapid exception resolution.
- Operations teams have timely, trusted visibility into production, material, inventory, quality, and shipment status.
- Manufacturing data is standardized and available in Microsoft Fabric for governed reporting, analytics, and future AI use cases.
- Business and technology teams share a clear roadmap, common process definitions, and measurable delivery outcomes.
- Integration and data products are supportable in production, with monitoring, reconciliation, documentation, and defined service ownership.
- Pay is based on market location and may vary based on factors including experience, skills, education and other job-related reasons. The annual salary range for this position is $175,000-$200,000. This role is also eligible for bonus and equity as part of the total compensation package.
- At Nextpower, we are driving the global energy transition with an integrated clean energy technology platform that combines intelligent structural, electrical, and digital solutions for utility-scale power plants. Our comprehensive portfolio enables faster project delivery, higher performance, and greater reliability, helping our customers capture the full value of solar power. Our talented worldwide teams are redefining how solar power plants are designed, built, and operated every day with smart technology, data-driven insights, and advanced automation. Together, we’re building the foundation for the world’s next generation of clean energy infrastructure.
- Nextpower is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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