PLM Technical Architect Lead

Acuity Inc.•Atlanta, GA

23h•Remote

About The Position

Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives. We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals. Acuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The Company is powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates. Visit us at www.acuityinc.com.

Requirements

10+ years in enterprise / solution architecture, owning end-to-end system design across PLM, PIM, ERP, MDM, and integration platforms.
Deep hands-on expertise with PTC Windchill PLM, including product structures, BoMs, configuration, and change management.
Strong experience designing CAD/EDA integrations (Creo, SolidWorks, Altium) and digital thread workflows.
Proven success architecting API-first, event-driven, and MuleSoft-based integration platforms.
Extensive experience with cloud-native architecture on Azure, microservices, CI/CD, and DevOps automation.
Strong leadership, architecture governance, and cross-functional stakeholder alignment skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Product Information Management (PIM) platforms and catalog syndication strategies.
Hands-on exposure to Generative AI for product data enrichment, classification, and component matching.
Experience with observability platforms (Grafana, ElasticSearch, Azure Monitor) for large-scale distributed systems.
Background in global data governance, master data management, and large enterprise data migrations.
Familiarity with C4 modeling, domain-driven design (DDD), and modern architecture documentation practices.
Experience operating in high-scale B2B commerce or manufacturing environments.

Responsibilities

Own and architect the end-to-end product engineering ecosystem across PLM (PTC Windchill), PIM, CAD/EDA, ERP, MDM, and integration platforms.
Design scalable solutions for complex product structures, configurable BoMs, and digital thread workflows.
Lead CAD-to-PLM integrations (Creo, SolidWorks, Altium) and product data pipelines using MuleSoft, APIs, and event-driven architectures.
Establish product data governance, quality standards, and master data management across global systems.
Drive cloud-native architecture on Azure, enabling microservices, CI/CD, observability, and reliability.
Apply AI-driven automation to accelerate product metadata enrichment, component matching, and intelligent workflows