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Job Description 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

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