Senior Solution Architect – Digital Engineering

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Overview

This role is for someone passionate about determining robust solutions to business & technology challenges, leveraging 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 alongside our talented consultants to define innovative solutions that overcome complex business needs. You will lead technical aspects of business transformation, engage client architects and stakeholders, and guide projects from strategy to implementation.

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.
• Technically lead large and/or complex projects and 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.
• Identifying application integration requirements, maintenance needs, upgrades, and data migration activities.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate complexity, simplify end‑to‑end workflows, automate manual tasks and deploy AI across operations.
• Mentor junior architects and other team members, guiding and encouraging the use of best‑practice techniques.

Preferred Education

• Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Knowledge of the digital solutions within the Product Engineering domain.
• Provide evidence‑based architectural options, alternatives, rationales and recommendations/solution evaluations.
• Experience of technically leading large complex projects.
• Proven ability to build and maintain professional networks.
• Establish and maintain skills and personal eminence in the market.
• Continuously develop expertise and knowledge of client issues based on accumulated experience.
• Be able 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.
• Perform analytical thinking and problem solving and communicate outcomes.
• Leadership skills: guidance, delegation, written & verbal communication, encouraging ideas and options.
• Understand importance of data and its governance, strategy, integrations and insights.
• Understanding and appreciation of business process and its role in Digital Engineering transformations.
• Communicate articulately and effectively at all levels with appropriate detail.
• Excellent relationship building skills, quickly building relationships to ensure solutions cover and complement all business needs and wider transformation.
• Support requirements gathering and process modelling activities.
• PLM skills and experience, ideally with successful delivery of solutions using key PLM Packages (e.g., Teamcenter, 3DEXPERIENCE, Windchill or equivalent).
• Understanding of migration and interface techniques and tools such as ETL, Enterprise Service Bus.
• Awareness of enterprise architecture frameworks like Zachman or TOGAF.

Seniority Level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

• Full‑time

Job Function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting

Location

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

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