IT Software Engineer
About The Position
Join Cisco's Global Supply Chain IT organization as an IT Software Engineer on a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative team responsible for building, supporting, and enhancing an end-to-end Orchestrator system. The role sits at the intersection of business strategy and software engineering, leading requirements elicitation and configuring, modeling, and building solutions in Cisco's enterprise PLM ecosystem. The work includes building and maintaining Teamcenter BMIDE data models, customizing Active Workspace interfaces, designing workflow and change-control processes, managing access governance, and validating deployment packages. You will lead functional discovery and testing activities, and contribute to AI and intelligent automation initiatives by using enterprise GenAI tools to accelerate development and expand PLM capabilities. This position is hybrid, with office attendance expected on a semi-regular basis.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of experience as an IT Systems Analyst, Techno-Functional Consultant, or PLM Engineer, with tactical configuration experience in Siemens Teamcenter and Active Workspace (AWC).
- Proficiency in XML, JSON, XSLT, and scripting languages such as Python, Shell, or SQL for data manipulation and testing.
- Functional knowledge of multi-tier Bill of Materials management (EBOM, MBOM, substitutes/alternates) and Engineering Change Management processes.
- Practical experience integrating generative AI tools into analysis, configuration scripting, and testing workflows.
- Ability to lead multi-functional workshops and translate sophisticated business requirements into actionable technical work.
Nice To Haves
- Expertise in BMIDE data modeling, property extensions, and naming and revision rules.
- Experience configuring Active Workspace declarative UI components, including JSON view models and stylesheets.
- Deep knowledge of Teamcenter Workflow Designer, including condition tasks and handler configurations.
- Advanced proficiency in Agile/Scrum methodologies using Jira.
- Good communication skills to effectively bridge technical and non-technical partners.
- Siemens Software certifications.
- Experience with AI orchestration platforms and knowledge of vector databases, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or semantic search.
Responsibilities
- Configure and maintain BMIDE data models, including business object hierarchies, custom properties, naming rules, and lifecycle schemes.
- Customize Active Workspace declarative UI layouts, JSON view models, command bars, stylesheets, and display rules.
- Develop and maintain workflow templates, rule and action handlers, validation gates, and change-control paths.
- Manage security and access governance through Access Manager Rule Trees, dynamic LOVs, and classification schema nodes.
- Lead functional discovery workshops and translate business problems into Jira user stories with acceptance criteria and workflow definitions.
- Define requirements and functional logic for AI-assisted PLM features, such as automated datasheet extraction and duplicate part detection.
- Use enterprise GenAI tools to accelerate user-story drafting, generate synthetic test data, and automate configuration scripting.
- Assemble, validate, and test BMIDE deployment packages, and collaborate with DevOps and database teams on deployment validation.
- Author functional test plans and lead Sprint Design Validation and User Acceptance Testing sessions.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.
- Paid parental leave.
- Short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Basic life insurance.
- Paid holidays and a floating holiday for non-exempt employees.
- Employee birthday day off, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and personal wellness days.
- Paid vacation or a flexible vacation time-off program, depending on employee classification.
- Paid sick time and carryover of unused sick time, subject to Cisco policies.
- Additional paid time away may be requested for critical or emergency family issues.
- Optional paid volunteer days.
- Annual bonuses for eligible non-sales roles, subject to Cisco policies.
- Potential Cisco restricted stock unit grants, subject to eligibility and vesting conditions.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
