Industrial Automation Solutions Architect
Role Overview
The role leads development of industrial automation solutions by assessing customer requirements, identifying opportunities, designing concepts, and developing technical scopes and ROI cases.
The architect coordinates with international suppliers and system integrators to ensure solutions are technically sound, commercially viable, and aligned with customer needs.
The role works with business development, sales, sourcing, customers, and international technology partners throughout solution development and delivery.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
The role leads development of industrial automation solutions by assessing customer requirements, identifying opportunities, designing concepts, and developing technical scopes and ROI cases.
The architect coordinates with international suppliers and system integrators to ensure solutions are technically sound, commercially viable, and aligned with customer needs.
The role works with business development, sales, sourcing, customers, and international technology partners throughout solution development and delivery.
Assessments and solution design
- Visit factories and assess production processes, material flows, equipment, cycle times, manpower, and operational challenges.
- Identify automation opportunities across welding, painting, material handling, assembly, packaging, palletising, machine tending, and quality inspection.
- Develop phased automation roadmaps based on feasibility, safety, operational impact, and ROI.
- Evaluate industrial and collaborative robots, AGVs/AMRs, machine vision systems, and automated production equipment.
- Design solution architectures covering robotics, machinery, control systems, sensors, software, safety systems, and supporting infrastructure.
- Define interfaces with existing machines, production lines, ERP, MES, and WMS systems.
- Prepare process-flow diagrams, system layouts, preliminary designs, and technical documentation.
Supplier coordination and delivery
- Develop scopes of work, technical specifications, performance requirements, deliverables, and acceptance criteria; prepare RFQ packages for manufacturers and system integrators.
- Evaluate international suppliers, primarily in China, including technical capabilities, proposals, equipment selections, and solution designs.
- Lead supplier technical discussions and support supplier evaluations, factory audits, and factory acceptance testing.
- Develop technical proposal content, layouts, assumptions, exclusions, implementation plans, and ROI/payback models; lead customer workshops, demonstrations, and proofs of concept.
- Support handover, design reviews, FAT, SAT, installation, commissioning, training, and final acceptance; ensure delivered solutions meet agreed requirements.
- Maintain technical templates, assessment frameworks, supplier evaluations, and project documentation; monitor industrial robotics, automation, machine vision, AI, and smart manufacturing developments.
- Support the company's industrial automation portfolio and identify relevant technologies for Saudi industrial customers.
Qualifications and experience
- Bachelor's degree in Mechatronics, Robotics, Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Automation & Control, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related technical field.
- At least 8 years of experience across two or more listed areas, including industrial automation, robotics system integration, factory automation, manufacturing engineering, solution design, industrial project engineering, technical pre-sales, or production-line integration.
- Broad experience across multiple applications such as robotics, material handling, packaging, welding, machine vision, assembly, or production-line automation.
Client and organization
The client delivers industrial automation, facility-management robotics, and AI-enabled solutions to factories and enterprises across Saudi Arabia and the GCC.
The organization works with international technology partners to improve customer operational efficiency, productivity, and business performance.
Location and work type
- The position is full-time and based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
- Factory visits and customer-site assessments are part of the role.
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