Senior Systems Architect

Job Description

Xylem |ˈzīləm|

1) The tissue in plants that brings water upward from the roots;
2) a leading global water technology company.

We’re a global team unified in a common purpose: creating advanced technology solutions to the world’s water challenges. Developing new technologies that will improve the way water is used, conserved, and re-used in the future is central to our work. Our products and services move, treat, analyze, monitor and return water to the environment, in public utility, industrial, residential and commercial building services settings. Xylem also provides a leading portfolio of smart metering, network technologies and advanced analytics solutions for water, electric and gas utilities. In more than 150 countries, we have strong, long-standing relationships with customers who know us for our powerful combination of leading product brands and applications expertise with a strong focus on developing comprehensive, sustainable solutions. For more information, please visit us at www.xylem.com

If you are excited and passionate about helping us solve water, we want to hear from you!

Sensus, a Xylem brand, helps a wide range of public service providers – from utilities to cities to industrial complexes and campuses – do more with their infrastructure to improve quality of life in their communities. We enable our customers to reach farther through the application of technology and data-driven insights that deliver efficiency and responsiveness. We partner with them to anticipate and respond to evolving business needs with innovation in sensing and communications technologies, data analytics and services. Learn more at sensus.com and follow @SensusGlobal on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

The Role: The Senior Systems Architect will report to the Sr. Manager – Systems Engineering. This career opportunity is best suited to the person that thrives on new challenges and has extensive experience in designing and architecting new systems by integrating hardware technology into working solutions for customers.

Essential Duties/Principal Responsibilities:

• Effectively communicate with several aspects of the organization (Engineering, Marketing, and Project Management) to drive definition of clear, concise design requirements.
• Leverage diverse skill sets in network application software and analytics, radio frequency engineering, data concentrators and smart endpoints.
• Work with local and international teams and apply specific experience to building smart grid communications solutions for gas, water and electric customers.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on projects all the way from proof of concept and technical feasibility to product launch.
• Provide cross-functional technical leadership across engineering teams, including mechanical, hardware, firmware, and software.
• Arbitrate cross-functional implementation decisions across engineering, solution owners, and product marketing.
• Work closely with the solution project manager and the solution owner to ensure the successful delivery of the solution.
• Answer technical questions from various stakeholders, including training, documentation, operations, supply chain, etc.
• Review engineering documentation for compliance to requirements such as product specifications, firmware functional specifications, and hardware featurettes.
• Work with key stakeholders across the company to ensure successful product release.
• Serve as technical liaison to third-party manufacturers, vendors, and standards bodies as necessary.
• Active participation in defining and evolving processes in business development.
• May include international travels.

Minimum Qualifications: Education, Experience, Skills, Abilities, License/Certification:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Masters preferred.
• At least 5 years’ experience in communications or infrastructural architecture development of communications solutions for utilities
• Experience in:
• performing network or wireless infrastructure assessments
• architecting conceptual, specified and detailed infrastructure models
• using modeling techniques
• Ideal candidates will bring the ability to see network designs from conception to completion, and a desire to be part of something new.
• With communication (DLMS-COSEM, Wireless MBus, NBIoT), IP, smart energy/smart grid protocols and security protocols and algorithms preferred.
• Real time, high availability systems preferred.
• Familiarity with utility technology and use cases preferred.

Physical Demands:

(The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

• Light lifting (20-25 lbs.), office environment
• Regularly required to sit or stand, reach, bend and move about the facility

Work Environment:

(The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

• Office: Standard office equipment; work usually performed in an office setting free from any disagreeable elements.
• Standard weekly job hours: 40 hours
• Travel: 25%

Xylem is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.