Application Architect – Digital Engineering ( PLM application )

This is the role for someone who is passionate about defining 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 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.

Your role and 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.
• You will design applications which may run on multiple platforms and may be composed of multiple software packages.
• You will be able to define all components of the technical solution including data model, integrations, software configuration and associated system infrastructure.
• You will 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.
• You will also be responsible for performance, availability and scalability of the applications, as well as maintaining the functional interface to the application infrastructure.

Required technical and professional expertise:

• The ideal candidate will be employed as an Application Architect with experience in Digital Engineering projects.
• Demonstrable PLM solution delivery experience.
• Be able to provide architectural options, alternatives, rationales, and recommendations/solution evaluations.
• Experience working in and contributing to successful client projects.
• Continually develop expertise and knowledge of client issues based on accumulated experience.
• Detailed architectural knowledge of Siemens Teamcenter.
• Be able to create required governance architectural artifacts.
• Build and manage trusted relationships with client architects at all levels.

Preferred technical and professional experience:

• 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).
• PLM skills and experience.
• Experience of delivering against the architecture of Siemens Teamcenter.
• Understanding of programming languages and technologies such as Java, VB, SQL and HTML is beneficial.
• Understanding of migration and interface techniques and tools such as ETL, Enterprise Service Bus is beneficial.

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