Solutions Architect

About the Role: Solutions Architect
The core responsibility of this role is connecting customers to technology through the SOFTBOT® Platform.  The need for automation is increasing at a rapid rate, as is the need to deploy that automation quickly.  A Solutions Architect meets directly with existing and potential customers to review issues and opportunities and collaborates to develop effective solutions.  The architect then works with internal product development, project development, and deployment teams to collaborate on requirements.  A Solutions Architect needs to constantly learn about an ever-growing set of technologies and have the creativity to apply these technologies to solve real-world problems.
At SVT, that’s what we do.  We connect awesome technology to amazing customers at speeds that no one thought was possible!
A potential day in the life of SVT’s Solutions Architect: 
- Collaborate and brainstorm with customers to solve problems
- Collaborate with team members on how to tackle new ideas
- Lay out requirements needed to get the job done
- Help our Product Dev team understand what’s hot and trending
- Help our Project Dev team understand what may be unique to a solution
- Work with our Deployment team to make sure they’re experts on the solution that they’re delivering
Required skills/qualifications:
- 5+ years of demonstrated technical experience in system requirements gathering
- 2+ years of experience with technical solutions and how to apply them
- Experience in warehousing, distribution, software systems integration, or manufacturing automation
- Experience documenting technical requirements to solve a problem
- Creativity to see a problem and think of a new way to solve it
- Ability to break down a solution and explain it to others in non-technical terms
- Experience working in a team environment with colleagues and customers
- Knowledge of business best practices, issues faced, and operations
- Experience working in a matrix responsibility environment
**You get bonus points for having:**  
- Bachelor’s Degree in a technical discipline or related military experience
- Professional experience in a related role
- Direct experience as a solutions architect or application engineer OR
- Professional experience as a business analyst, industrial engineer, or software developer
- Experience with continuously learning about advances in automation