Innovation Starts With You Propel your career at Belden, where innovation creates possibilities—for our people, our customers, and the communities we serve. We connect people, information, and ideas to solve the world’s most complex connectivity challenges, turning curiosity into meaningful impact. Here, you’ll take on work that challenges you, supports your growth, and empowers you to shape what’s next. You’ll collaborate with global teams, gain diverse perspectives, and contribute to solutions that extend beyond our business—creating value in the world around us. Together, we are shaping the future of digitization and paving the way for the next generation of innovation. Job Summary Solution Architect (SA) role within Belden’s Innovation organization is a technical expert and a resource for our teams as they produce solutions for various markets, applications, and use cases. The SA works to assess, design, develop, build, and validate solutions by leveraging in-depth knowledge about Belden’s portfolio. The SA is expected to lead efforts in developing use cases and documenting best practices, and be a subject matter expert (SME) on multi-disciplinary teams. Innovation and sharing technology insights both internally and externally is part of their daily tasks. Job Accountabilities - Communicate with key internal and external project stakeholders to detail requirements for solutions. - Evaluate design requirements from customers and/or partners. - Provide feedback and guidance for greenfield and brownfield project designs. - Develop solution architectures that inform product development initiatives and guide customer engagements. - Document industrial network and/or digital automation network designs in the forms of design prerequisites, topology drawings, reports, configuration procedures, performance metrics, and demonstrations. - Validate solution architectures and report results of Proof-of-Concept (PoC) testing. - Stay apprised and educated on industry standards, best practices, and emerging technologies that influence future design innovation. - Document standard practices and common designs for use cases utilizing Belden technologies, and actively participate in the sharing of the knowledge to targeted audiences. - Reporting projects and customers’ feedback to Sales, Product Management, and Belden Engineering/R&D. Knowledge & Experience - 10+ years of experience in network engineering, design, and implementation. - Experience with mission critical network design/architecture. - Experience navigating converged IT/OT environments and deploying tools for SCADA, NMS, and ICS. - Experience with networking technologies (e.g. 802.3, 802.11, 4G/5G), or IEC 62443 is an asset. - Experience with edge orchestration, cloud integration, wireless systems, or cybersecurity is a bonus. - Exposure to coding in Python, Java, Node-Red, and/or others relevant in industrial automation. - Proven track record within a systems engineering role in a market/industry relevant to the Belden organization. - Engineering Graduate with focus on ethernet networking, industrial systems & controls, and/or low latency & high reliability digital communications. Other Capabilities - An affinity for technical and commercial details relevant business both within Belden and our customers. - Honed analytical skills that support troubleshooting issues and detailing effective solutions. - A proven track record in working independently and as part of a team within a metric driven environment. - Practiced at working with cross functional teams, including Sales, Marketing and Product Development. - Ability to work successfully in a fast paced, multi-disciplinary, matrixed, pressured work environment of a medium to large sized international organization. - A pro-active, flexible and pragmatic approach with a customer-centric focus. - Ability to translate complex, technical information into comprehensible conversation for a non-technical audience. - Ability to professionally present Belden’s solutions to a diverse audience. - Responsive to questions and able to manage challenges and expectations. - Ability to absorb new learning within technical courses and seminars. - Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required to perform the duties of the role (30% + frequency of travel) Let’s Create Possibilities Together. Join a global community shaping the future of intelligent connectivity. At Belden, you’ll help push the boundaries of technology and write the next chapter of innovation, creating possibilities for your career, your future, and the world around you. These statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work involved for this job. It is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of this job. Applicants can expect a base compensation range of $110,000-$160,000.00, plus benefits and additional incentives based on the level of the role. This is the reasonable estimate that Belden believes it might pay for this job based on applicable circumstances at the time of posting. Belden may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range as permitted by law, and commensurate with the applicant’s experience, qualifications, and geographical location. Belden also offers hybrid and remote work practices where feasible and provides employees with benefits that could include health/dental/vision, long term/short term disability, life insurance, HSA/FSA, matching retirement plans, paid vacation, parental leave, employee stock purchase plan, paid leave for volunteer work in your community, training opportunities, professional talent management and succession planning, corporate health well-being initiatives and a work culture which includes commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and sustainability! #LI-NG1 #LI-Remote