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Solution Architect

Hybrid / remoteContract or permanent

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We are looking for a Solution Architect to support a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) environment covering engineering and manufacturing systems.

Key responsibilities

• Collaborate with consultants, project managers, technical teams, and customer stakeholders to deliver successful PLM solutions and achieve project objectives.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, process-aligned PLM solution designs, leveraging industry best practices and Siemens software capabilities.
• Act as a trusted advisor, ensuring solutions address business challenges while maintaining technical integrity, strategic alignment, and long-term value delivery.
• Provide architectural leadership throughout the project lifecycle, guiding design decisions, integrations, process improvements, and change initiatives.
• Support customer engagement and adoption by managing expectations and applying established delivery methodologies and frameworks.
• Advise Sales, Pre-Sales, and delivery teams on solution architecture options, implementation approaches, and future roadmap considerations.
• Ensure end-to-end solution coherence by validating that multiple workstreams, systems, and integrations operate together effectively.
• Develop, maintain, and promote architectural standards, templates, and best practices to drive consistency and quality across projects.

Skills and experience

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect within a PLM, engineering software, or digital manufacturing environment.
• Industry experience within automotive, aerospace, defence, or heavy equipment manufacturing is highly desirable.
• Strong ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable, end-to-end solution architectures aligned with customer objectives and industry best practices.
• Experience leading architectural design, process integration, and business transformation initiatives across multiple stakeholders and workstreams.
• Capable of working independently, determining appropriate solutions, methods, and approaches for projects of varying complexity, while providing technical leadership and architectural expertise.
• Work in agile teams across consulting, design, technical, and industry specialists
• Prepare clear, structured outputs for clients, from reports to visual process maps
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and consulting skills, with the ability to influence customers, project teams, and senior business leaders.
• Experience supporting pre-sales activities, solution shaping, and strategic technology roadmaps.
• Commitment to knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, and promotion of architectural standards, best practices, and lessons learned across project teams and communities of practice.
• Experience with Siemens Teamcenter or other enterprise PLM platforms would be advantageous.
• Strong technical problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• A proactive approach with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Passion for software quality, continuous improvement and delivering reliable solutions.
• Ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary engineering and IT teams.
• Comfortable working in a challenging, highly technical environment.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Desirable

Why CAD-IT?

We're passionate about innovation and work collaboratively to give our very best to our staff and customers. Job satisfaction, wellbeing and career progression are top of our list. Join our dynamic, ambitious and friendly team and you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential, in an inclusive culture that values diversity and rewards innovation, hard work, integrity and merit.

Our benefits package focuses on reward and wellbeing:

Availability

Immediate availability is preferred.

Job details

LocationHybrid / remote

ContractContract or permanent

Salary

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