PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) - Functional Architect

K&K Social Resources & Development GmbH is an international recruiting agency that has been providing technical resources in the European region since 1993. This position is with one of our clients in France, which is actively hiring candidates to expand its teams.

Role – Functional Architect

Location – Toulouse, France

Employment Type – Permanent

Work Schedule – Hybrid

Job Description

• Initiate impact analysis (architecture) to identify all dependencies (IT and Business).
• Prepare integrated Design of Architecture (Product and/or Service impacted & High Level design) to support several initiatives needs.
• Secure IT disaster recovery readiness to support business continuity requirements.
• Collaborate with product owner and epic architects and formulate features and user stories.
• Works closely with the Business owners and Architects of different products to design the functional behavior for a transverse business capabilities.
• Collaborate with architects and distributed agile feature teams to create and implement innovative high-quality solutions.
• To do critical review and challenge to the product/domain architects to see potential issues and propose alternate solutions.
• Understand the PLM functional landscape of the client and formulate the future roadmap based on the enterprise vision.
• Being a part of a learning culture, where teamwork and collaboration are encouraged, excellence is rewarded, and diversity is respected and valued.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent.
• At least 10-15 years of experience in PLM Functional domain, with at least 5-10 years of Functional Architecture.
• Should have led/participated in the transverse architecture for 5+ years.
• Strong functional knowledge on 3D Experience.
• Domain knowledge- Product Structure (EBOM), CAD BOM, DMU, Change and Configuration Management.
• Transverse functional knowledge on PLM landscape (including PASS SSI, VPM/Optegra/CADINT, APS, PS SSI, DMU/TreND, PDMLink CC, AIRINA, LTA4ALL etc.).
• Strong knowledge of SSI domain.
• Product structure & Configuration management principles.
• Release process and versioning process.
• Interaction with CAD/TDM/Conf-Mgmt/DMU Toolsets.
• Good knowledge on transverse processes like BASIC, Full3D, Long Term Archiving (LTA3D), ESI Design Automation, PZ/RPZ management would be a plus.
• Downstream feeding to AIRINA, Manufacturing and Customer Services toolsets.
• Good knowledge on the Elec domain.
• Good knowledge on the integration activities beyond Architecture especially strategizing test strategy (including data, land-scape, scenarios) for a complex release.
• Awareness of Agile/SAFe methodologies.
• Awareness of the Lean PLM SA project would be a plus.
• Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement).
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability.

Responsibilities

• Conduct workshops with business and other stakeholders to understand/define the complex business requirements.
• Work closely with the Architects of different Products/ARTs to define/review/challenge the transverse E2E solution.
• Analyze the impacts on the PLM tool sets in the E2E application landscape.
• Perform impact analysis of AS-IS vs TO-BE landscape and define target functional architecture.
• Analyze the Systems in Context to foresee impacts in the E2E solution.
• Evaluate impacts on Interfaces of different PLM toolsets and downstream products.
• Propose different solution options and its associated impacts.
• Conduct brainstorming sessions/workshops with various Product owners and Architects to discuss different solution proposals and help to finalize the optimum solution.
• Transform the business requirements into a Concept Solution to produce a CPD.
• Explain the detailed target solution to the impacted Products/ARTs team.
• Review Concept Solution dossiers for the impacts Products in the E2E solution.
• Maintain RIA tracker related to Solution Architecture open points.
• Review the Test Strategies / Test scenarios / use cases.
• Identify and promote re-use of existing components / COTS solutions.

Note

Applicants for employment in Europe should possess work authorization, which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.