A Day in Your Life at MKS:
The Sr. Automation Engineer is responsible for leading and maturing automation capability within our critical lines of business at MKS Instruments (MKS). These lines of business include our Materials Solutions Division (MSD), Vacuum Services Division (VSD), and our Photonics Solutions Division (PSD) specifically. Ensuring the development and continuous improvement of automated functionality in order to reduce the manual, human driven tasks within our manufacturing, testing, and warranty workstreams. Collaboration with multiple stakeholders with a vast breadth of disciplines of both technical and non-technical backgrounds is required. Leading matrixed resources to deliver and execute target-state designs, current state assessments, and facilitation of roadmaps to achieve business objectives. Position reports to the Director of Engineering Architecture.
Accountable for business results primarily achieved through the work of others. Has responsibility for employee development and enterprise performance. Accountable for business, functional or operational areas, processes, or programs.
You Will Make an Impact By:
- Developing and maintaining a comprehensive enterprise automation framework, standards, governance principles, and provides strategic guidance on technology acquisition and lifecycle management.
- Leading matrixed architects, and IT professionals through guidance, coaching, and support to ensure assignments are completed in accordance with established guidelines, policies, standards, and procedures. Understands the overall organizational vision and translates it into team goals aligned with departmental and organizational goals.
- Collaborating and providing strategic guidance to key stakeholders, department heads, and senior executive management on enterprise architecture and technology-related matters including risks, opportunities, potential impacts, and prioritization. Ensures IT Architecture and associated technology solutions are in place to meet business objectives and is able to respond with agility to changing business priorities,
- Facilitating the creation and informs the enterprise architecture strategy with actionable roadmaps, to include emerging technologies, trends, and various architectural perspectives (e.g., business, information/data, application, technology and security)
- Maintaining a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement and leads teams through periods of change and transformation.
- Oversees the planning, design, implementation, and measurement of IT systems and ensures a balance between growing the agility required to achieve business objectives and ensuring core IT functions are reliable, stable, secure and efficient.
- Providing guidance on the implementation of large or complex projects and oversees progression while ensuring the department program portfolio is managed effectively through governance and planning processes. Engages in initiatives as needed to facilitate the realization of value and work with sponsorship to evaluate the achievement of value.
- Influencing departmental budget and financial resources including but not limited to technology services, software, hardware ensuring the most effective use to maximize outcomes.
- Maintaining an awareness of emerging technologies, industry trends, and regulatory changes, and provides direction on which emerging technologies should be introduced, integrated, and assimilated to improve operational effectiveness and manage risk.
- Participates in the evaluation and selection of vendors, review of contracts and management of vendor relationships to ensure cost-effective and reliable IT services and solutions.
- Partners effectively with 3rd party service firms in support of the MKS agenda and as enablers to the broader IT strategy.
- Partners effectively with Portfolio Management, Agile CoE, Product Management, IT Security, Supply Chain, Legal, and the broader IT Architecture community.
- Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders on the development of the technology capability roadmap.
- Collaborates on the development of IT policies, procedures, and standards, ensuring they are up to date and in line with area of responsibility and industry standards. Ensures compliance with established policies, procedures, and standards.
- Collaborates with management on the design of an organizational structure and operating model to meet business objectives. Leads the organizational change initiatives, ensuring smooth transition with minimal disruption.
- Responsible for recruitment, development, retention, performance management, and succession planning that will lead to a strong talent pipeline.
Skills You Bring:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other computer-related degree required.
- 10+ years of diversified IT experience required.
- 5+ years of IT Engineering required.
- 3 + years of experience in technical IT automation architect capacity preferred.
- Experience in designing and implementing scalable and secure solutions preferred.
- Familiarity with cloud technologies, microservices architecture, and emerging technologies such as generative AI and its applications preferred.
- Familiarity with On-Prem distributed system architectures as well as hybrid cloud solutions
- Familiarity with enterprise networking architectures including segmented networks as well as SDWAN architectures.
- Familiarity with Enterprise Architecture tools, CICD tools, DevOps and DevSecOps, SDLC, graphical modeling approaches, and repository management preferred.
- Knowledge of business models, operating models, financial models, cost/benefit tradeoff analysis, risk management, business ecosystems, to include “as a service” preferred.
- Knowledge of electronics manufacturing, including industry related standards and regulations preferred.
- This position is Hybrid and must be within drivable distance to one of our locations in Andover MA, Austin TX, Beaverton OR, Broomfield CO, Irvine CA, Rochester NY, Milipitas CA.
In addition to the above responsibilities, the following are considered material job duties of the position:
- Ability to take and follow directions and instructions.
- Ability to interact with other employees, customers, suppliers, vendors, or the public, in a safe, professional, and respectful manner.
- Access to sensitive and confidential business systems and software, personally identifying information, the company’s financial information, and/or the ability to maintain physical security and safety.
- Because this position involves the above material job duties, trustworthiness, reliability, and good judgment also are material job duties.
Compensation and Benefits:
Salary Pay Range: $100k - $120k per year. This range is a good faith estimate of the expected salary range for this position, based on a wide range of factors including qualifications, experience and training, operational and business needs and other considerations permitted by law.
Bonus: This position is eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, in an amount to be determined by MKS [or as applicable].
Benefits: MKS offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance coverage (medical, dental and vision), 401(k) with company match, life and disability insurance, 12 paid holidays, sick time, 15 paid vacation days, [6 weeks fully paid] parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement [and for participation in any stock programs, signing bonus, etc.].
Relocation benefits are not available for this position.
We are interested in a qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we will not be sponsoring work visas for this position, at this time.
MKS is an equal opportunity employer, including disability, veteran status and all categories protected by law. Please review our EOE statements for additional details. MKS is generally only hiring candidates who reside in states where we are registered to do business.
MKS will consider qualified applicants with a criminal history pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act and the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers.
