As Senior Solution Architect for Autonomous Operations, you will lead the technical architecture of industrial transformation opportunities and consulting engagements with responsibility for providing technical leadership, mentoring solution consultants, and influencing cross-functional teams. Working closely with AO consultants, you will translate business priorities into future operating architectures and practical implementation roadmaps. You will combine deep technical expertise, strategic thinking and executive communication to connect advances in industrial AI and automation with Rockwell and partner capabilities.

Your Responsibilities:

Solution Design and Architecture

- Support discovery, qualification and solution positioning by identifying where Autonomous Operations can deliver credible operational and business value for strategic opportunities.
- Develop architectures that connect business value drivers and operational decisions to capabilities across field devices, control, industrial data, manufacturing operations and enterprise systems.
- Determine where intelligence, optimisation and decision execution should sit across control, edge and cloud. Explain trade-offs in latency, reliability, cybersecurity, human oversight and integration with existing operations.
- Evaluate how agentic AI, adaptive control, software-defined automation, orchestration and physical AI or robotics could evolve client architectures. Distinguish capabilities available today from emerging technologies and roadmap dependencies.
- Map required capabilities to Rockwell and partner technologies, including relevant control, industrial data, MES and production logistics platforms.



Define data models and integration patterns, identify gaps and sequence a feasible roadmap aligned with Rockwell strategy.

Stakeholder Engagement

- Work alongside AO consultants throughout substantive client engagements to develop the transformation thesis, test technical assumptions and translate priority business problems into architectural choices.
- Lead architecture discussions with CTOs and senior operations, engineering and IT stakeholders. Explain complex technical choices in business terms and show how Rockwell capabilities can support the required outcomes.

Implementation Feasibility & Risk Assessment

- Partner with delivery leads to validate feasibility, scope, dependencies, estimates and technical risks before commitments are made to clients.
- Translate blueprints into implementation work packages and guide delivery architects and engineering teams as solutions progress into execution.
- Define requirements for data ingestion, contextualisation, analytics and integration with control and operational workflows, drawing on specialists for detailed implementation.
- Establish transparent boundaries for automated decisions, human intervention and closed-loop execution, including validation and assurance requirements.




- Agree architecture and engineering standards with delivery teams, including testing, deployment, maintainability and secure integration.
- Maintain technical continuity between consulting, pre-sales and delivery, resolving architectural issues and assumptions as the solution develops.
- Ensure proposed solutions meet industrial requirements for scalability, performance, cybersecurity and operational reliability.

Technical Leadership

- Develop reusable functional blueprints and reference architectures for priority industries and business functions. Start from existing Rockwell architectures and extend them through lessons from client engagements and emerging technology.
- Mentor architects and engineers through joint client work, architecture reviews and knowledge sharing, helping the team build strategic and executive advisory skills.
- Build relationships with Rockwell technical communities and product teams. Bring specialist expertise into engagements and feed client requirements and architectural gaps back into portfolio discussions.

The Preferred - You Might Also Have:

- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field.
- Willingness to travel up to 50%.
- Typically 6–10 years of relevant experience in industrial solution architecture, consulting or systems integration, with demonstrated leadership of complex client architecture engagements supporting consultative opportunity development
- Deep expertise is required in at least one domain below, supported by broad understanding across the rest.
- Industrial operations: control, MES/MOM, production logistics and asset performance
- Industrial data: edge co

📌 Senior Solution Architect (Australia)
🏢 Rockwell Automation
📍 Australia