Senior Application Architect - Digital Engineering

IBM • Warwickshire, OH

72d • Hybrid

About The Position

This is the role for someone who is passionate about defining, leading and delivering solutions to business challenges, primarily in the PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) and Digital Engineering space. Working alongside our talented and widely experienced architects, you'll have the opportunity to define, lead and deliver innovative solutions which overcome complex business needs. You will have detailed knowledge and experience of architecting Siemens Teamcenter, an enterprise PLM application. You will work with Consultants and Solution Architects to understand the client challenges and will translate these into detailed designs for the application configuration. You will work with our Application Consultants to guide them in the configuration of the application, ensuring it's fit for purpose and solves the client challenge.

Requirements

• Demonstrable PLM solution delivery experience.
• Ability to provide architectural options, alternatives, rationales, and recommendations/solution evaluations.
• Experience of technically leading large complex projects.
• Continually develop expertise and knowledge of client issues based on accumulated experience.
• Detailed architectural knowledge of Siemens Teamcenter.
• Ability to create and present required governance architectural artifacts.
• Ability to quickly build and grow trusted client relationships, especially with senior architects.

Nice To Haves

• Ability to perform analytical thinking and problem solving.
• Communicate articulately and effectively at all levels of business.
• Excellent relationship building skills (clients and 3rd Parties).
• Leadership skills (provide guidance, delegation, communication (written/verbal) and encourage ideas and options).
• PLM skills and experience. Experience of delivering against the architecture of Siemens Teamcenter.
• Perform mentoring advice and knowledge to junior team members.
• Understanding of programming languages and technologies such as Java, VB, SQL and HTML is beneficial.
• Demonstration of migration and integration patterns and tools such as ETL, Publish-Subscribe which allow integrating of Digital Engineering applications with various other enterprise systems is beneficial.
• Able to showcase expertise in Generative AI and Hybrid Cloud, integrating them into Digital Engineering solutions would be beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Using your PLM application knowledge, you will define and architect solutions for client Digital Engineering needs, both business and technical.
• Determine, create and maintain architectural documentation through all phases of project.
• Technically lead large and/or complex projects and support the Project Manager to meet business needs, governance approvals and delivery timescales.
• Able to guide the development of new Digital Engineering capabilities to address evolving business demands.
• Design applications which may run on multiple platforms and may be composed of multiple software packages.
• Define all components of the technical solution including data model, integrations, software configuration and associated system infrastructure.
• Perform critical evaluation and selection of the software and hardware components of the application.
• Prepare for application development by the evaluation and selection of development methodologies and tools.
• Responsible for performance, availability and scalability of the applications, as well as maintaining the functional interface to the application infrastructure.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate complexity, simplify end-to-end workflows, automate manual tasks and deploy AI across operations.
• Mentor junior architects and other team members, guiding and encouraging the use of best practice techniques.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees