Manufacturing Execution Systems Solution Architect

The Factory Systems MVX Solution Architect is responsible for defining the architecture, capability roadmap, and system design direction for MVX solutions. The role serves as the technical bridge among Product, Process, Manufacturing, NPI, IT development, and related teams, translating future product and process requirements into scalable, standardized, and sustainable MVX capabilities. The position ensures Factory Systems readiness for engineering builds, qualification, production ramp, and sustaining operations, while shaping the future Factory Systems AI platform architecture and maintaining alignment with the long-term Factory Systems strategy. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: • Partner with Product and Process teams to understand future programs, technology changes, and manufacturing needs. • Translate Product and Process roadmaps into Factory Systems and MVX functional capabilities and development roadmaps. • Prioritize capabilities and delivery sequencing based on business value, program milestones, manufacturing readiness, and cross-functional dependencies. • Define investment and funding requirements to support prioritized Factory Systems, MVX, and AI roadmap capabilities. • Facilitate alignment with Process Owners to define and document manufacturing workflows, system behavior, business rules, and data requirements for MVX. • Identify capability gaps, dependencies, operational risks, and readiness requirements for engineering builds, qualification, production ramp, and sustaining operations. • Drive standardization and reusable capabilities across products, processes, and manufacturing sites. • Partner with IT to ensure technical solutions meet approved functional requirements and deliver intended manufacturing outcomes. **Required:** • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Manufacturing Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. • Strong experience with MES, ERP, Factory Systems, or manufacturing system solutions. • Good understanding of manufacturing workflows, system behavior, business rules, data requirements, and system integration. • Experience translating Product and Process roadmaps into system capabilities and development priorities. • Ability to identify capability gaps, dependencies, operational risks, readiness needs, and investment requirements. • Experience supporting engineering builds, qualification, production ramp, or sustaining operations. • Ability to guide architecture direction and drive standardized, reusable capabilities across products, processes, and sites. • Ability to communicate technical direction and recommendations clearly to both technical and management stakeholders. **Preferred:** • Experience developing technology roadmaps, high-level investment proposals, or funding requirements. • Familiarity with AI-enabled manufacturing platforms, data governance, analytics, automation, or MLOps. • Experience facilitating architecture or design reviews across multiple teams. • Ability to balance near-term manufacturing needs with long-term system flexibility and sustainability. WD is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic pa