Consulting Senior Solution Architect – Digital Engineering Professional Multiple Cities

This role is for someone passionate about determining robust solutions to business & technology challenges, making use of strong understanding of PLM and Digital Engineering technologies. You can perform rapid analysis and decomposition of complex business information into solution options and recommendations. Working alongside our talented and widely experienced consultants, you’ll have the opportunity to define innovative solutions that overcome complex business needs.

Together with clients and third‑party vendors, you’ll lead and be part of a collaborative team taking a holistic approach across the system, shaping strategy, requirements and technology to deliver outstanding results. You will have a drive, determination and soft skills to seek consensus and compromise in order to engage client architects and other stakeholders and take them through the technical aspects of business transformation from needs to fully delivered and implemented solution. Whether it’s a strategy and transformation or implementation programme, your advice will help our clients operate more efficiently and effectively. You’ll be pivotal in helping to drive forward some of the most exciting products currently in development in the UK.

Your role and responsibilities:

• Collaborating with clients, consultants and delivery teams to determine business‑specific solution needs.
• Define and architect solutions to clients Digital Engineering needs, both business and technical.
• Determine, create and maintain architectural artifacts (e.g. documentation, models) through all phases of a project.
• Technically lead large and/or complex projects and support the Project Manager to meet business needs, governance approvals and delivery timescales.
• Provide leadership and technical direction at all levels in the team to meet challenges throughout the project lifecycle.
• Provide strategic and enterprise level input to aid clients in constructing a holistic solution across their data and application landscape.
• Identify application integration requirements, maintenance needs, upgrades, and data migration activities.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate complexity, simplify end‑to‑end workflows, automate manual tasks and deploy AI across operations.
• You will be responsible for mentoring junior architects and other team members, guiding and encouraging the use of best practice techniques.

Required education: None

Preferred education: Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise:

• Knowledge of digital solutions within the Product Engineering domain.
• Ability to provide evidence‑based architectural options, alternatives, rationales, and recommendations/solution evaluations.
• Experience technically leading large complex projects.
• Proven ability to build new and maintain existing professional networks.
• Establish and maintain skills and personal eminence in the market.
• Continually develop expertise and knowledge of client issues based on accumulated experience.
• Be able to create and present architectural artifacts for governance forums.
• Build and manage trusted relationships with client architects at all levels, strengthening IBM Consulting services capabilities.

Preferred technical and professional experience:

• Ability to learn new methods, approaches and tools.
• Analytical thinking and problem solving skills; communicate outcomes.
• Leadership skills – provide guidance, delegation, communication and encourage ideas.
• Understand importance of data and its governance, strategy, integrations and insights it can supply to a business.
• Understanding and appreciation of business process and its role in Digital Engineering transformations.
• Communicate articulately and effectively, with appropriate detail, at all levels of business.
• Excellent relationship building skills – quickly build relationships to ensure solutions cover and complement all aspects of business needs and wider transformation.
• Ability to support requirements gathering and process modelling activities.
• PLM skills and experience, ideally with successful delivery of solutions utilizing key PLM packages – e.g. Teamcenter, 3DEXPERIENCE, Windchill or equivalent.
• Understanding of migration and interface techniques and tools such as ETL, Enterprise Service Bus is beneficial.
• Awareness of enterprise architecture frameworks like Zachman or TOGAF is beneficial.

IBM is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.