Senior PLM Architect: Teamcenter & AI-Ready Digital Thread

Capgemini Engineering; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 98,000 - 233,000; 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

Job summary

Capgemini Engineering is seeking an Enterprise Architect to own the end-to-end target architecture for a large PLM modernization anchored on Siemens Teamcenter. You will lead design across CAD management, process planning, and ERP/MES/MOM integrations, establishing a digital thread with traceability and data continuity.

You will drive an AI-powered PLM ecosystem with open APIs, data accessibility, and MCP integration patterns, while guiding strategy, governance, and regulatory alignment in

Qualifications

• 18+ years in enterprise/solution architecture with major PLM landscapes in scope.
• Proven design of integrated architectures spanning PLM, CAD, ERP and MES/MOM; strong command of Siemens Teamcenter's enterprise architect role.
• Experience designing AI-ready / API-open platforms and understanding of agentic / MCP integration patterns for augmented engineering.
• Experience architecting for onshore–offshore delivery models that mirror a client organization.
• 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 solution and technical architectures 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

Enterprise architecture

PLM architectures

Siemens Teamcenter

AI-ready platforms

Tools

APIs

AI integration patterns

CAD/ERP/MES integration

Job description

Capgemini Engineering is seeking an Enterprise Architect to own the end-to-end target architecture for a large PLM modernization anchored on Siemens Teamcenter. You will lead design across CAD management, process planning, and ERP/MES/MOM integrations, establishing a digital thread with traceability and data continuity.

You will drive an AI-powered PLM ecosystem with open APIs, data accessibility, and MCP integration patterns, while guiding strategy, governance, and regulatory alignment in