AI-Ready PLM Architect for Teamcenter & Aerospace

Capgemini; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 118,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Retirement savings plans

Life and disability insurance

Employee assistance programs

Other benefits

Job summary

Capgemini is seeking an Enterprise Architect to own the end-to-end target architecture for a large PLM modernization in the aerospace & defense sector. The role centers on Siemens Teamcenter, CAD/ERP/MES integrations, and a data-driven digital thread across engineering, manufacturing and certification.

You’ll design AI-ready, API-open platforms, guide onshore–offshore delivery, and establish governance to ensure scalable, secure solutions aligned with business objectives in a hybrid Seattle

Qualifications

• 18+ years in enterprise/solution architecture.
• Proven design of integrated architectures spanning PLM, CAD, ERP and MES/MOM.
• Experience designing AI-ready / API-open platforms and agentic MCP integration patterns.
• Experience architecting for onshore–offshore delivery models.
• Experience in Aerospace & Defense or another regulated, complex-product industry.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern the target-state PLM architecture centered on Siemens Teamcenter, covering CAD management, process planning, and integrations with ERP, MES/MOM, ALM, and certification systems.
• Design and maintain an end-to-end digital thread that ensures traceability and data continuity across requirements, engineering, manufacturing, change management, and certification processes.
• Architect and enable an AI-powered, agentic-ready PLM ecosystem through open APIs, structured data accessibility, MCP/agentic integration layers, and support for augmented engineering use cases.
• Establish the AI-Powered PLM strategy and roadmap, identifying high-value AI and agentic opportunities while enabling an AI-accelerated software development and delivery lifecycle.
• Define the enterprise integration strategy, ensuring seamless interoperability between Teamcenter and adjacent engineering, manufacturing, and business systems while maintaining scalability, security, and performance.
• Lead architecture decision-making, including build-versus-configure evaluations, platform sizing, non-functional requirements, upgradeability considerations, and optimization of total cost of ownership.
• Advise engineering, business, and IT stakeholders on future-state operating models, architecture direction, investment priorities, and phased transformation roadmaps aligned with business objectives and budgets.
• Establish and enforce architecture governance, standards, and best practices, assuring solutions and technical architecture remain aligned with target-state principles and delivery objectives.
• Ensure solutions comply with Aerospace & Defense regulatory and engineering requirements, including configuration management, change control, certification traceability, and relevant standards such as AS9100 and ARP4754A.

Skills

PLM architecture

Siemens Teamcenter

AI-ready platforms

APIs open

Architecture governance

Tools

Teamcenter

Job description

Capgemini is seeking an Enterprise Architect to own the end-to-end target architecture for a large PLM modernization in the aerospace & defense sector. The role centers on Siemens Teamcenter, CAD/ERP/MES integrations, and a data-driven digital thread across engineering, manufacturing and certification.

You’ll design AI-ready, API-open platforms, guide onshore–offshore delivery, and establish governance to ensure scalable, secure solutions aligned with business objectives in a hybrid Seattle