System Architect – Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

Apple, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is seeking a PLM System Architect to design and deliver scalable enterprise software for Product Lifecycle Management and Enterprise Data Services. You will own architecture across release cycles, collaborating with business partners to define requirements and ensure on-time delivery.

This role requires 15+ years of enterprise architecture experience, leadership across teams and vendors, and a strong track record building on-premises and cloud-based solutions for a global organisation.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in enterprise systems architecture.
• Expertise in multi-tier, service-oriented, and microservice architectures.
• Strong data architecture experience with relational and NoSQL stores.
• Proven technical leadership across teams and vendors.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture and high-level design for PLM/EDS solutions.
• Lead implementation and maintenance across release cycles.
• Collaborate with business partners to translate requirements into robust architectures.
• Ensure scalability, security, and performance of enterprise systems.

Skills

Enterprise systems architecture

Technical leadership

Distributed systems design

Data architecture

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Siemens Teamcenter PLM

Kafka

Solr

Cassandra

Job description

System Architect - Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

Austin, Texas, United States Software and Services

The IS&T Product Engineering Systems group is seeking a PLM System Architect who has a proven track record in designing and developing high quality enterprise software solutions! Our group is responsible for implementing and managing groundbreaking applications including Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Enterprise Data Services (EDS) to manage Product Information for Apple's Hardware and Software product development and innovation.We work on many high-impact projects that serve Apple's various lines of business. We accomplish all this with an outstanding group of software engineers, architects, and technical project managers, working to make a difference for our customers.We are looking for someone with experience building and delivering large scale, on-premises, and cloud-based enterprise solutions. This individual should have the sound technical knowledge and leadership skills!

Description

Join the IS&T Product Engineering Systems group as PLM System Architect, where you will help build innovative enterprise software applications. Your responsibilities include working with the business partners to define the project requirements; developing architecture and detail design; implementation and maintenance. Ownership of all engineering and product feature work in release cycles. Design and develop solutions for scalability, extensibility, security, and performance. Must be able to communicate and work with multi-functional IS&T and Business groups. Must be self-motivated, creative, operates with minimal directions with on-time results. Strong multi-tasking skills are crucial.

Responsibilities

• This is a software engineer role that will demonstrate your hands on coding skills and leadership skills with other developers and vendors to deliver the solution.
• You will also enjoy the benefits of working in a fast-growing business where you are encouraged to "Think Different" and where your efforts play a key role in the success of Apple's product design and innovation.

Minimum Qualifications

• 15+ years in enterprise systems architecture, including deep experience designing scalable, distributed, and highly available environments at large-scale, globally distributed organizations.
• Expertise designing multi-tiered, service-oriented, and microservice-based application architectures.
• Deep experience with large-scale data architecture relational and NoSQL stores, data warehousing/lakes, streaming and event-driven pipelines, caching, and ETL/ELT at high volume.
• Demonstrated technical leadership driving architecture across teams and vendors, and translating complex business requirements into system design.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Siemens Teamcenter PLM is desirable.
• Proven experience in Change Management, BOM Management, CAD & ERP, Manufacturing, and other PLM areas
• Knowledge of enterprise solutions such as ERP, MES, ALM, and MDM
• Full lifecycle PLM enterprise application implementation experience (e.g., analyze, design, build, test, implement, support)
• Knowledge of Big data technologies such as Kafka, Solr, Cassandra
• Exposure to containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• TDD, CI/CD, and DevOps best practices; automated build tools (Maven, Bazel, CMake); Git-based source control (GitHub, GitLab)
• Experience implementing comprehensive observability and telemetry frameworks
• Familiarity with system security, data integrity, and redundancy best practices
• Adept at collaborating with stakeholders at all levels, from developers to executive leadership, to gather requirements and translate them into robust system architectures.
• Effective interpersonal, analytical and communication skills.

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