Windchill Solution Architect

The AES Group; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 400,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

The AES Group is seeking a senior PLM Architect to define Windchill architecture for greenfield deployments and to lead PLM discovery, maturity assessments, and process harmonization across engineering, manufacturing, quality, and service.

You will develop the PLM roadmap, present architectural recommendations to executives, and drive end-to-end lifecycle implementation from requirements to production rollout.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree with 15+ years of PLM experience, including 10+ years in PTC Windchill.
• Led at least one large-scale greenfield Windchill implementation.
• Strong domain knowledge in engineering, manufacturing, and product development.
• Own Windchill solutioning and guide team across modules such as PDMLink, PartLink, MPMLink, and Supplier Management.
• Define APIs, middleware flows, and integration patterns for Windchill deployments.

Responsibilities

• Define the enterprise PLM strategy and Windchill blueprint for greenfield environments.
• Lead PLM discovery, maturity assessments, and process harmonization across engineering, manufacturing, quality, and service.
• Develop PLM roadmaps and conduct technical reviews and phased deployment.
• Present architectural recommendations to executive leadership and stakeholders.
• Oversee data modeling, metadata framework design, and security/ACL architecture.
• Drive end-to-end lifecycle implementation from requirements capture to production rollout.
• Partner with infrastructure teams for sizing, scaling, and performance optimization.
• Establish DevOps/CI-CD approaches for Windchill deployments and manage post-go-live optimization.

Skills

Windchill

PLM architecture

System integration

DevOps for Windchill

UAT & cutover

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

ThingWorx

Navigate

WBM

Java/J2EE

Oracle

Job description

• Define the enterprise PLM strategy and Windchill architectural blueprint for greenfield environments.
• Lead PLM discovery, maturity assessments, and process harmonization across engineering, manufacturing, quality, and service.
• Develop the PLM roadmap, conduct technical reviews, and phased deployment architecture.
• Present architectural recommendations to executive leadership and key stakeholders.
• Create end‑to‑end process architecture including workflows, lifecycles, versioning, and product structure definitions.
• Ensure the solution adheres to industry best practices.
• Lead full lifecycle implementation from requirements capture to production rollout.
• Drive system installation, environment setup, configurations, customization scope, and integration strategy.
• Oversee data modeling, metadata framework design, and security/ACL architecture.
• Partner with infrastructure teams for sizing, scaling, and performance optimization.

Technical Expertise

• Engineering degree with 15+ years of experience in PLM with a minimum of 10+ years in PTC Windchill.
• Successfully led at least one (preferably multiple) large-scale greenfield Windchill implementations.
• Strong domain familiarity in engineering, manufacturing, and product development.
• Own Windchill solutioning and guide team including:
• PDMLink, PartLink, MPMLink, and Supplier Management
• Change management, configuration management, BOM management
• CAD data management and visualization
• Architect integrations between Windchill and:
• ThingWorx, Navigate, and IoT/digital thread environments
• WBM (Windchill Bulk Migrator)
Define APIs, middleware flows, and integration patterns.
• Windchill architecture & clusters
• Java/J2EE, Info*Engine, OData, REST APIs
• Database systems (Oracle/SQL Server)
• Apache/Tomcat, directory services (LDAP/AD)
• Establish DevOps/CI-CD approaches for Windchill deployments.
• Drive UAT, cutover planning, hypercare, and post‑go‑live optimization.