Introduction
This is the role for someone who is passionate about determining robust solutions to business & technology challenges, making use of your 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 have a desire to lead and be part of a collaborative team taking a holistic approach across the system helping shape strategy, requirements and technology to deliver outstanding results.
You will have a drive, determination and the 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 business needs to fully delivered and implemented solution.
Whether it’s a strategy and transformation or implementation programme, your advice will help our clients to operate more efficiently and effectively. What’s more, you’ll be pivotal in helping to drive forward some of the most exciting products currently in development in the UK.
Responsibilities
* Collaborating with clients, consultants and delivery teams to determine business‑specific solution needs.
* Define and architecture 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. Includes compiling and implementing application development plans.
* 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.
* Where not present, bring architectural principles and thinking to a project including documenting architectural processes, procedures and standards.
* Identifying 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.
* Mentor 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
* Experience in a major engineering organisation or a leading consulting or digital technology firm.
* 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 and maintain professional networks.
* Continual development of expertise and knowledge of client issues based on accumulated experience.
* Ability to create and present architectural artifacts for governance forums.
* Build and manage trusted relationships with client architects at all levels, strengthening consulting services capabilities.
Preferred Technical and Professional Experience
* Ability to learn new methods, approaches and tools.
* Analytical thinking and problem solving, with clear communication of outcomes.
* Leadership skills – guidance, delegation, written and verbal communication, and encouraging ideas and options.
* Understanding of data and its governance, strategy, integration and insight supply to business.
* Understanding and appreciation of business process and its role in Digital Engineering transformations.
* Effective communication at all business levels with appropriate detail and clarity.
* Excellent relationship building to ensure solutions cover and complement all aspects of business needs and wider transformation.
* Support for requirements gathering and process modelling activities.
* PLM skills and experience, ideally with delivery of solutions using key PLM packages such as Teamcenter, 3DEXPERIENCE, Windchill or equivalent.
* Knowledge of migration and interface techniques and tools such as ETL, Enterprise Service Bus and knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks like Zachman or TOGAF beneficial.
IBM is 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 applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
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