Smart Home Solution Architect
Job Description
Your Responsibilities
The Project Solutions team mission is to evaluate all new Smart Home opportunities for Legrand group before being approved for development.
Interfacing with product marketing entities from the group, external partners, and different R&D centers, high level problems are then transformed into well-defined business opportunities with consistent solutions.
To accelerate Legrand group Smart Home development, we are looking for a talented, dynamic and passionate Smart Home Solution Architect.
Your work will consist in
Gathering all inputs from the different stakeholders (internal and external).
Understanding pains, requirements, technical constraints, use cases, and business implications.
Pitching the opportunity to the right audience using adapted language (business / technical / C-level).
Proposing innovative solutions including phased approach to tackle this opportunity.
Reusing at most the existing development, R&D know-how, maintenance impacts.
Identifying clearly the gaps to fill versus existing platforms, clarify a pre-feasibility in agreement with Product Manager and Tech leaders.
Consolidating workload evaluation for the proposed solutions.
Handing-over the project ownership to the assigned Product Manager after internal validation while providing as much support as required.
More generally, you will become a permanent Smart Home referent :
Maintaining & improving knowledge of Legrand smart home portfolio and its business strategies.
Monitoring of IoT market, technological trends and strategic topics (reviews, fairs ...).
Given the overall on-going opportunities, roadmap proposal is part of the expected deliverables.
Qualifications
Your Profile
- MS / engineering degree or similar
- 5+ years in a business client facing technical role (Solution Architect / Pre-sales Engineer / Product Manager or equivalent)
- Analytical and pragmatic with a problem-solving and use-cases oriented mind-set
- Ability to quickly grasp new technical concepts, compare and benchmark with competitors
- Ability to understand and challenge business and marketing inputs
- Autonomous and strong solution leader, as well as problem solver
- Excellent at written and oral communication, making complex ideas understandable to a wide audience.
- Fluent in English
- Experience in IoT / Smart Home products is a plus
Additional Information
Location : Boulogne-Billancourt or Lyon
Benefit :
- Employee discount on the purchase of Netatmo & partner products : boiler, electric radiators.
- Discount on reconditioned Netatmo products.
- 4% profit-sharing if targets achieved.
- Profit-sharing based on results.
- Vacation bonus
- 50% reimbursement of travel expenses.
- Complimentary coffee / tea
- Access to the Restaurant Inter-Entreprise & foodcourt / meal vouchers
- Access to CE Netatmo
- Access to the Learning with Legrand platform with numerous training courses available
- CET : time savings account
- Flexible working hours
- Telecommuting
- 100% dematerialized mutual insurance : Alan ️
- Internal mobility possible
- During breaks you can play table tennis & Table football
- Every lunchtime sports activities ( , , , running, spikeball ... )
- On-site gym (with shower )
- Several board games available
- Regular events (afterwork, Christmas party...)
- Incredible offices with a rooftop and a view of the Eiffel Tower
- Parking for your carand your bike ️ subject to space availability