Software Architect – Industrial Digitalization

About the role

Lead the research and development and continuous evolution of Bühler’s industrial digitalization platforms, covering industrial IoT, edge‑to‑cloud connectivity, data services and platform applications.

Key responsibilities

• Define target architecture, technology roadmap, integration standards and key technical solutions to ensure security, scalability, reliability and maintainability.
• Establish industrial data architecture, analytics and governance capabilities supporting data quality, traceability, KPI analysis and data‑driven applications.
• Collaborate with product, automation, cloud, edge and business teams, manage technical risks, ensure delivery quality and coach developers on engineering best practices.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Software or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of software R&D experience, including practical work in industrial digitalization, IoT, cloud platforms, edge computing or manufacturing software.
• Proven experience designing architectures for distributed systems or enterprise platforms.
• Hands‑on experience with big‑data processing, data ingestion, stream/batch processing, time‑series data, data modeling and warehousing.
• Experience implementing data governance, classification, metadata, master data, quality, lineage and security.
• Familiarity with industrial integration protocols such as OPC UA, MQTT and Modbus.
• Strong C#/.NET engineering skills, microservices, APIs, containers, CI/CD and Azure DevOps.
• Good command of spoken and written English for global collaboration.

Required skills

• C#/.NET
• Microservices
• APIs
• Containers
• CI/CD
• Azure DevOps
• Big‑data processing
• Data ingestion, stream and batch processing
• Time‑series data handling
• Data modeling and warehousing
• Analytical services
• Data governance
• OPC UA, MQTT, Modbus
• Industrial IoT protocols
• Azure cloud services
• Relational, NoSQL, time‑series and analytical databases
• Industrial cybersecurity