Senior Application Architect – Digital Engineering

IBM; Hursley, Warwick, Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in the UK is seeking a Senior Application Architect focused on delivering Digital Engineering solutions. The successful candidate will lead projects, mentor junior staff, and have expertise in Siemens Teamcenter. This role combines technical leadership with a chance to innovate within a collaborative environment, offering a hybrid work arrangement.

Benefits

Flexible working patterns

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience as a Senior Application Architect in Digital Engineering projects.
• Ability to lead complex projects and provide architectural options.
• Detailed knowledge of Siemens Teamcenter.

Responsibilities

• Define and architect solutions for client Digital Engineering needs.
• Lead large and complex projects, ensuring delivery timelines.
• Mentor junior architects and ensure best practice techniques.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Leadership

Relationship building

PLM expertise

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Siemens Teamcenter

Java

SQL

HTML

Job description

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

The ideal candidate will be employed as a Senior Application Architect with experience in Digital Engineering projects.

• Be able 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.
• Be able to create and present required governance architectural artifacts.
• Able to quickly build and grow trusted client relationships (especially with senior architects) so IBM is viewed as a preferred provider of consulting services and grow ‘footprint’.

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).
• 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.

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IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

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Job Title

Job ID

61643

City / Township / Village

London, Warwick, Hursley, Manchester

State / Province

Hampshire, Warwickshire, London, City of, Manchester

Country

United Kingdom

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Consulting

Employment type

Regular

Position type

Professional

Up to 60% or 3 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements)

Company

(8660) IBM United Kingdom Limited

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?