Senior Product Systems Architect – GridBeats Substation Monitoring
On-siteMadrid, Madrid, Spain or Zamudio, Basque Country, Spain
Job Summary
Define and own the overall architecture of the substation monitoring platform, encompassing hardware, firmware, software, and data layers. Translate customer needs into system capabilities, requirements, interfaces, and technical acceptance criteria. Act as the technical bridge between product management, domain SMEs, engineering teams, suppliers, and customers. Create and maintain architecture, system requirements, and interface documentation to guide engineering. Lead technical product discovery, feasibility assessments, and architecture trade-offs across performance, cost, scalability, and reliability. Design software architecture for secure edge-to-cloud integration, scalable data pipelines, and flexible deployment. Align system design with industry standards like IEC 61850 and IEEE C37. Integrate sensor data, asset models, and diagnostic tools into a unified platform. Manage technical decisions around containerization, orchestration, and cloud services. Support field trials and customer pilots to incorporate lessons learned into the product architecture.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- Master's degree (preferred)
- Solid and strong experience in system architecture or complex product development in industrial or energy applications
- Experience defining systems that combine hardware, software, communications and data processing
- Understanding of systems decomposition, requirements flow-down, and cross-domain interface definition
- Demonstrated leadership in technical coordination across cross-functional teams (engineering, customer-facing functions, partners)
- Experience with digital, software-enabled or analytics driven solutions
- Ability to clearly communicate architecture and trade-offs to varied audiences, both technical and executive
- Fluent in spoken and written English
Desired Qualifications
- Domain knowledge in electric power transmission & distribution, especially substations and power systems
- Exposure to edge computing, IoT architectures, and real-time analytics
- Understanding of AI/ML applications for predictive diagnostics or fault analysis
- Experience evaluating suppliers and integrating third-party technologies
- Strong customer orientation, commercial awareness and product thinking
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