How to apply for Solutions Architecture Lead

About AMPECO

AMPECO builds a SaaS platform that companies use to manage EV charging infrastructure, processes, and energy use. Its platform is used across North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The company states it is at the forefront of the EV charging industry and is still growing.

About the role

This is a senior individual contributor role. You guide customers through architecture, design, and delivery of complex technical projects, from pre-sales conversations to project go-live. You own solution architecture, migration strategy, planning, estimation, and risk assessment that support bidding and contracting, then lead onboarding and migration once a prospect becomes a customer.

A typical day

A typical day could include a pre-sales call with a prospect to define solution architecture and migration strategy, followed by internal work on planning, estimation, and risk assessment for a bid. You might also lead an onboarding or migration session for a customer moving to the AMPECO EV Charging Platform. The job details do not describe the team structure or daily routines, so ask about those in the interview.

Who AMPECO is looking for

• Has senior experience designing and delivering complex technical projects, ideally involving SaaS platforms and customer migrations.
• Can work in pre-sales: define solution architecture and migration strategy with prospects, and produce planning, estimation, and risk assessments for bids and contracts.
• Has led customer onboarding and migration projects end to end, from first conversation to go-live.
• Is motivated by AMPECO's stated mission of accelerating global EV charging infrastructure and is willing to give, learn, and grow with the team.

Tips for this application

• Show concrete examples of complex technical projects you architected and delivered, including how you handled planning, estimation, and risk assessment.
• Describe specific pre-sales engagements where you defined solution architecture and migration strategy with a prospect, and what the outcome was.
• Include details about customer onboarding and migration projects you led to go-live, with scale, timelines, and your exact role.
• If you have EV charging, energy, or SaaS platform experience, state it plainly and connect it to the AMPECO EV Charging Platform.
• Address the Germany location directly: confirm your ability to work there and any relevant language or travel considerations, since the job details do not specify remote or office setup.

What to cover in your cover letter

Your experience as a senior individual contributor leading architecture and delivery of complex technical projects. Specific pre-sales work where you defined solution architecture, migration strategy, planning, estimation, and risk assessment for bids and contracts. Examples of customer onboarding and migration projects you led to go-live. Your reason for wanting to work on EV charging infrastructure and the AMPECO EV Charging Platform.

Research before applying

• Study the AMPECO EV Charging Platform: what it does for managing EV charging infrastructure, processes, and energy use, and who its customers are.
• Review AMPECO's presence in the markets it names (North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia) to understand the range of customer environments you may work with.
• Learn the basics of EV charging infrastructure and common migration challenges companies face when moving to a SaaS platform.
• Check AMPECO's public materials for how it describes its team, hiring approach, and what it means by people who are eager to give, learn, and grow.

Likely interview topics

Based on the job description, expect questions about:

• Walk through a complex technical project you architected from pre-sales through go-live. What decisions did you make and why?
• How do you approach planning, estimation, and risk assessment for a bid or contract when the solution architecture is not yet final?
• Describe a customer migration you led. What was the migration strategy, and what problems came up?
• How would you design a solution architecture for a company migrating its EV charging infrastructure management to a SaaS platform?
• What do you know about the AMPECO EV Charging Platform and the EV charging industry, and how would you explain the platform's value to a technical prospect?

Common mistakes to avoid

• Applying with only hands-on engineering experience and no evidence of owning architecture, planning, estimation, and risk assessment for customer projects.
• Ignoring the pre-sales part of the role and focusing only on delivery, when the job explicitly starts at the first prospect conversation.
• Writing about EV charging in vague terms without showing any understanding of the AMPECO EV Charging Platform or the industry's technical context.