What you will enjoy doing
About Your Future Team:
We are the IT department for Development & Innovation at ALPLA. Our mission is to empower global product development by providing the right digital platforms, tools, and data—supporting innovation from the first idea to full-scale industrialization.
As an Innovation Analyst & Solution Architect, you will be the go-to partner for non-standard solution requests from innovation, product development, and engineering departments—especially where our standard platforms (Teamcenter, Dynamics 365, PDS) don't offer a perfect fit. You quickly analyze new ideas, develop solution concepts, evaluate tools, and implement proof-of-concepts (ideally in Python) to validate innovative approaches.
Your focus is on enabling new solutions quickly and thoughtfully. You'll collaborate closely with the Product Development Platform Architect to ensure successful POCs can scale into our broader IT landscape when needed.
What You'll Do:
1. Engage early with Innovation and Product Development teams to capture, challenge, and structure new ideas
2. Lead rapid POC cycles (scope prototype demo decision) with a hands-on mindset to validate concepts
3. Build lightweight technical prototypes using Python, API integrations, or low-code platforms, UX/UI Tools, ...
4. Evaluate tools and technologies for fit, scalability, and integration potential
5. Translate business needs into solution concepts, architecture outlines, and decision documents
6. Collaborate with the Product Development Platform Architect to align new solutions with our broader systems landscape
7. Act as a bridge between business users, engineering, and IT on non-standard solution needs
What makes you great
8. Several years of experience at the intersection of IT, business, and engineering ( solution architecture, innovation tech, IT consulting)
9. A track record of turning early-stage ideas into working prototypes or POCs
10. Practical experience with Python or similar technologies for automation, data handling, or prototyping
11. Understanding of enterprise system landscapes (PLM, ERP); experience with Teamcenter or D365 is a plus
12. Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
13. Strong analytical and conceptual thinking combined with a hands-on mentality
14. Excellent English skills (German is a plus)
What you can expect working with us
15. We believe in flat hierarchies, short decision making paths and open communication
16. There is ALPLA Kids all-day childcare for children aged between 15 months and 6 years
17. You can expect a secure future with us – as a manufacturing company, we are globally on a growth path
18. We promote climate-friendly mobility with everything from a year-long season ticket for local public transport to purchasing an e-bike
19. Benefit from discounts on tickets for sports events, better private insurance conditions, the registration fees for running events being covered and numerous discounts at retail outlets in Vorarlberg