The job description
<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Our Why At Dotmatics </strong></p> <p>At Dotmatics, a Siemens company, we believe science, data, and decision-making must be deeply intertwined for innovation to thrive. Our Portfolio includes Luma, LumaLab Connect, ELN Platform, Graphpad Prism, Geneious, SnapGene, Protein Metrics, OMIQ, FCS Express, LabArchives, NQuery, EasyPanel, SoftGenetics and Virscidian.</p> <p><strong>We have a vision for a new Lab of the Future that will change the future of scientific research.</strong></p> <p>We have created the world’s most comprehensive digital science platform – best-of-breed software applications already used by more than 2 million scientists, together in a single ecosystem united by a powerful, flexible enterprise data platform. This is not flat data buried away in digital graveyards. This is dynamic, multi-dimensional decision-making.</p> <p>Scientific enterprises need a new level of effectiveness to achieve tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Illness will not wait. The biosphere will not wait. We are tireless in our vision, because the time for innovation is now.</p> <p><strong>Shaping the Future of Science At Dotmatics </strong></p> <p>Our global team of more than 800 colleagues are dedicated to supporting our customers in over 180 countries. Together, with our scientific community of users, we accelerate scientific innovation in order to make the world a healthier, cleaner, and safer place to live.</p> <p>You’ll join a collaborative, global team pushing the boundaries of scientific innovation. Your ideas and efforts will have a tangible impact, accelerating scientific progress and discovery. We offer a dynamic, remote-friendly environment that fosters high integrity and collaboration, empowering you to excel. Dotmatics is a company built by scientists, for scientists. Combined, we are now the world’s largest cloud-based scientific research R&D platform. We need your help to keep growing and pioneering the future.</p> <p><strong>We are Science Driven. We are Customer Centric. We are Better Together. </strong></p></div><div><strong>What do we need</strong></div> <div>We are seeking a <strong>Solutions Architect</strong> to be a senior technical authority within Dotmatics Professional Services, responsible for defining and governing end-to-end solution architectures for customer implementations of the Dotmatics Luma platform — including its role as the orchestration backbone connecting scientific informatics, data pipelines, and physical lab execution environments.<br>The role combines deep technical architecture expertise with an appreciation of scientific R&D workflows. The Principal Solutions Architect ensures that solutions are not only functionally correct, but also meet rigorous non-functional requirements around performance, scalability, security, reliability, observability, maintainability, and long-term operability.</div> <div><br>This trusted technical advisor role is highly customer-facing and works closely with Sales, PreSales, Product, Engineering, Cloud Operations, and Siemens Digital Industries Software (DISW) architecture teams. It plays a key role in joint Siemens engagements, positioning Luma alongside technologies such as Teamcenter, Mendix, Opcenter, and other DISW portfolio solutions — particularly where scientific workflows intersect with industrial automation and lab execution.<br><br><strong>In this role you will get to</strong><br><br><strong>Architecture & Design Authority</strong></div>
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<li>Act as the design authority for Luma-based customer solutions, including end-to-end lab orchestration architectures that span scientific informatics, data infrastructure, and physical lab systems</li> <li>Define logical and physical architectures covering applications, data, integrations, identity, environments, and operations</li> <li>Architect solutions that bridge the <strong>digital and physical lab</strong> — connecting experiment planning, protocol authoring, and scheduling through to execution on automated instruments, workcells, and robotic platforms</li> <li>Ensure architectural consistency across multiple customer engagements</li> <li>Make and document architectural trade-offs considering cost, complexity, scalability, risk, and long-term sustainability</li>
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<div><strong>Functional & Non-Functional Requirements</strong></div>
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<li>Shape functional requirements in collaboration with Scientific Architect and Application Scientists, including workflow automation requirements that span study design through instrument-level execution</li> <li>Own non-functional requirements including performance, scalability, security, resilience, observability, accessibility, internationalisation, and maintainability</li> <li>Translate business and scientific needs into robust technical architectures, including requirements for automated, auditable lab workflows in regulated environments</li>
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<div><strong>Integration, Data Architecture & Lab Orchestration</strong></div>
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<li>Design integration approaches using technologies such as Apache NiFi, APIs, batch pipelines, and event-driven patterns — including real-time instrument data streams and workcell status events</li> <li>Define data ingestion, transformation, and migration strategies that accommodate the high-frequency, heterogeneous data generated by automated lab environments</li> <li>Architect solutions that enable experiments to transition seamlessly from <em>planned</em> → <em>scheduled</em> → <em>executing</em> → <em>data captured</em> with minimal manual intervention, leveraging Luma as the orchestration layer</li> <li>Define integration patterns with <strong>lab automation and scheduling platforms</strong> (e.g., Thermo SiLA/SAMI, Tecan FluentControl, Overlord, Momentum, Synthace) and instrument connectivity layers (SiLA2, LADS, OPC-UA, vendor APIs)</li> <li>Architect solutions leveraging Databricks, including configuration via Databricks SQL, for aggregation and analysis of instrument and experimental data at scale</li> <li>Ensure data lineage, auditability, and regulatory compliance across the full experimental data lifecycle, from instrument output through to structured scientific records</li> <li>Support visualisation and analytics patterns using tools such as Sigma for Databricks</li>
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<div><strong>Platform and Enterprise Integration</strong></div>
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<li>Architect Luma solutions that integrate with customer enterprise systems including: ELNs (Dotmatics & third-party), LIMS, SDMS, PLM, ERP, MES, instrument data systems, and lab automation schedulers</li> <li>Define how Dotmatics fits within broader <strong>Siemens landscapes</strong>, including Teamcenter, Mendix, Opcenter, and SIMATIC, particularly in environments where scientific R&D and industrial/manufacturing processes converge</li> <li>Scope and design integrations with third-party scientific platforms including ELN/LIMS providers (e.g., Benchling, LabVantage, IDBS, LabWare), scientific data analysis tools (e.g., Spotfire, JMP, Pipeline Pilot, Geneious), and lab automation platforms — ensuring coherent data flow and workflow continuity across the full stack</li> <li>Define sample tracking, workcell scheduling, and instrument connectivity architectures as part of broader lab orchestration solution design</li>
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<div><strong>Security, Reliability, and Operations</strong></div>
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<li>Apply security best practices covering IAM, data protection, tenancy, and compliance, including considerations specific to connected lab environments and OT/IT boundary management</li> <li>Design for high availability, resilience, and disaster recovery</li> <li>Define observability strategies including logging, monitoring, and alerting — extended to cover automated lab execution environments and instrument connectivity layers</li>
<li>Ensure architectures ar
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