Overview

Senior Solution Architect – Digital Engineering at IBM. This role focuses on determining robust solutions to business and technology challenges with a strong understanding of PLM and Digital Engineering technologies. You will perform rapid analysis and decomposition of complex business information into solution options and recommendations.

Working with our consultants, you’ll define innovative solutions that address complex business needs, collaborating with clients and third-party vendors. You’ll lead and participate in a team to shape strategy, requirements and technology to deliver outstanding results, engaging client architects and stakeholders through the technical aspects of business transformation from needs to delivered solutions. Your advice will help clients operate more efficiently and effectively, and you’ll contribute to exciting products in development in the UK.

Your Role And Responsibilities

• Collaborating with clients, consultants and delivery teams to determine business-specific solution needs.
• Define and architect solutions to clients Digital Engineering needs, both business and technical.
• Determine, create and maintain architectural artifacts (e.g., documentation, models) through all phases of a project.
• Support the Project Manager to meet business needs, governance approvals and delivery timescales. Includes compiling and implementing application development plans.
• Provide leadership and technical direction at all levels in the team to meet challenges throughout the project lifecycle.
• Provide strategic and enterprise-level input to aid clients in constructing a holistic solution across their data and application landscape.
• Where not present, bring architectural principles and thinking to a project, including documenting architectural processes, procedures and standards.
• Identify application integration requirements, maintenance needs, upgrades, and data migration activities.

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• Knowledge of the digital solutions within the Product Engineering domain.
• Ability to provide evidence-based architectural options, alternatives, rationales, and recommendations/solution evaluations.
• Experience of working in and contributing to successful client projects.
• Proven ability to build new and maintain existing professional networks.
• Establish and improve skills and personal eminence in the market.
• Continually develop expertise and knowledge of client issues based on accumulated experience.
• Ability to create and present architectural artifacts for governance forums.
• Build and manage trusted relationships with client architects at all levels, strengthening IBM Consulting services capabilities.

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Ability to learn new methods, approaches and tools.
• Analytical thinking and problem-solving with clear communication of outcomes.
• Understanding of data governance, strategy, integrations and insights for business use.
• Understanding of business processes and their role in Digital Engineering transformations.
• Articulate, effective communication at all levels of business.
• Strong relationship-building skills to ensure solutions cover and complement business needs and transformation.
• Ability to support requirements gathering and process modelling.
• PLM skills and experience, ideally with delivery of solutions utilizing PLM packages (e.g., Teamcenter, 3DEXPERIENCE, Windchill or equivalent).
• Understanding of migration and interface techniques and tools (e.g., ETL, Enterprise Service Bus) is beneficial.
• Awareness of enterprise architecture frameworks like Zachman or TOGAF is beneficial.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting

Location: Hursley, England, United Kingdom