Senior Solution Architect – Digital Engineering
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£54,900
(£28.15 per hour)
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Description
Introduction
This is the role for someone who is passionate about determining robust solutions to business & technology challenges, making use of your strong understanding of PLM and Digital Engineering technologies. You can perform rapid analysis and decomposition of complex business information into solution options and recommendations.
Working alongside our talented and widely experienced consultants, you’ll have the opportunity to define innovative solutions that overcome complex business needs. Together with clients and third-party vendors, you’ll have a desire to lead and be part of a collaborative team taking a holistic approach across the system helping shape strategy, requirements and technology to deliver outstanding results.
You will have a drive, determination and the soft skills to seek consensus and compromise in order to engage client architects and other stakeholders and take them through the technical aspects of business transformation from business needs to fully delivered and implemented solution.
Whether it’s a strategy and transformation or implementation programme, your advice will help our clients to operate more efficiently and effectively. What’s more, you’ll be pivotal in helping to drive forward some of the most exciting products currently in development in the UK.
Your Role And Responsibilities
This is the role for someone who is passionate about determining robust solutions to business & technology challenges, making use of your strong understanding of PLM and Digital Engineering technologies. You can perform rapid analysis and decomposition of complex business information into solution options and recommendations.
Working alongside our talented and widely experienced consultants, you’ll have the opportunity to define innovative solutions that overcome complex business needs. Together with clients and third-party vendors, you’ll have a desire to lead and be part of a collaborative team taking a holistic approach across the system helping shape strategy, requirements and technology to deliver outstanding results.
You will have a drive, determination and the soft skills to seek consensus and compromise in order to engage client architects and other stakeholders and take them through the technical aspects of business transformation from business needs to fully delivered and implemented solution.
Whether it’s a strategy and transformation or implementation programme, your advice will help our clients to operate more efficiently and effectively. What’s more, you’ll be pivotal in helping to drive forward some of the most exciting products currently 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.
- 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.
Bachelor's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
The ideal candidate will be employed in a major engineering organisation or in a leading consulting or digital technology firm. Our preference is that they will have experience of operating in similar Senior roles within the sector.
- Knowledge of the digital solutions within the Product Engineering domain
- Be able to provide evidence based architectural options, alternatives, rationales, and recommendations/solution evaluations.
- Experience of technically leading large complex projects.
- Proven ability to build new and maintain existing professional networks.
- Establish and maintain skills and personal eminence in the market.
- Continually 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.
- Ability to perform analytical thinking and problem solving and communicate the outcomes.
- Leadership skills (provide guidance, delegation, communication (written/verbal) and encourage ideas and options).
- Understand the importance of data and its governance, strategy, integrations and insights that it can supply to a business.
- Understanding and appreciation of business process and its role in Digital Engineering transformations.
- Communicate articulately and effectively, with an appropriate level of detail but retaining key messages, at all levels of business
- Excellent relationship building skills i.e. upon joining a new team, quickly build relationships to ensure solutions cover and complement all aspects of business needs and wider transformation (e.g. processes).
- Ability to support requirements gathering and process modelling activities.
- PLM skills and experience. Ideally with successful delivery of solutions utilising key PLM Packages (such as Teamcenter, 3DEXPERIENCE, Windchill or equivalent).
- Understanding of migration and interface techniques and tools such as ETL, Enterprise Service Bus is beneficial.
- Awareness of enterprise architecture frameworks like Zachman or TOGAF is beneficial.