Principal Solution Architect - ADT Aerospace & Supplier

Location(s)

- Livonia - Michigan - United States of America

Company Overview

Siemens Digital Industries Software is a leading provider of solutions for the design, simulation, and manufacture of products across many different industries. Formula 1 cars, skyscrapers, ships, space exploration vehicles, and many of the objects we see in our daily lives are being conceived and manufactured using our Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software.

Position Overview

Siemens Digital Industries Software is seeking an expert and highly motivated individual for a position as a Principal Solution Architect within our Aerospace, Defense and Transportation (ADT) Business Unit. As an ADT Principal Solution Architect, you will be a leading resource responsible for designing innovative software solutions using our Xcelerator portfolio that aid our customers in realizing their digital future. This remote role is based in Livonia.

As part of a Professional Services team, you will collaborate efficiently with Consultants, Architects, Project Managers, Account Teams, and other internal and external interfaces to ensure that customers succeed in their objectives. This position requires excellent interpersonal skills, strong technical leadership, process improvement expertise, and configuration and implementation capabilities.

As a Principal Architect resource, you will translate business requirements into process-aligned designs for Siemens DI Software solutions based on standard methodologies, with special focus on Model-Based Enterprise digital threads. You will collaborate with customers to support management of customer expectations and drive adoption by demonstrating the complete Siemens Delivery Framework and how Model-Based Enterprise process maturity can be realized through the Xcelerator portfolio.

You will establish the technical integrity of the solution and ensure it remains aligned to requirements and value delivery throughout the project to achieve customer outcomes. Your leadership will provide direction for process design, integration, and change activities internally and at customer sites, leveraging and curating relevant templates and best practices for successful delivery. This role requires self-management, determining solutions, methods, and procedures on assignments and projects.

You will participate in the Architecture Community of Practice, promoting adoption and best practices across projects and programs, ensuring knowledge and lessons learned are shared across project and program boundaries. You will also help identify and escalate Model-Based Enterprise gaps and needs within the Xcelerator portfolio and collaborate with our Products organization to address these long-term to ensure successful realization of customer value.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand and demonstrate how Siemens solutions align and integrate with customers' initiatives, business drivers, value, and impact, with special focus on Model-Based Enterprise digital transformations

• Analyze and translate business requirements into an architectural blueprint that outlines solutions integrating across applications, systems, and platforms to achieve business objectives

• Apply industry standard methodologies and templates for the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio elements to provide customer value

• Lead the application of Solution Definition and Solution Enablement elements of the DI Deployment Framework on customer-facing projects

• Provide accurate and timely information and escalation to project management teams and leadership on project status, issues, risks, and benefits

• Establish, build, and maintain effective relationships with internal and external customers, technical peers, and product managers, building new relationships through networking within customer organizations and involved parties to support effective delivery

• Set and lead customer expectations, demonstrating thought leadership to influence key contacts and recommend solutions

• In conjunction with senior project leadership and account teams, apply customer management methods to support successful adoption of viable DI solutions

• Conduct validation activities, including required prototyping, with customers to verify if the templated solution applies to their environment, rationalize, and defend selected solutions by explaining why and how they deliver the highest value to their business

• Outline process changes required to support Organizational Change and assist customers in driving Digital Transformation

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university or college, preferably with software engineering background; Advanced Degree may be substituted for demonstrated experience

• Multiple years designing Teamcenter or similar customer solutions

• Minimum of 3–5 years technical experience as a Solution Architect or similar Principal Architect role

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience with Model-Based Enterprise concepts such as Model-Based Definition, Model-Based Manufacturing, and Model-Based Inspection

• Experience in the technical leadership of large software implementation projects

Preferred Skills

• Experience using Agile principles in project execution

• Excellent presentation skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to present sophisticated issues to multi-level audiences and successfully communicate progress, status, and issues to internal and external customers and stakeholders

• Demonstrated team leadership skills

Travel Requirements

Expected travel requirements: 25%–50%

Our Benefits & Rewards

The total cash compensation range for this position is $146,700 to $293,400 with 10% of this being comprised of an annual incentive target (100% achievement). The actual compensation offered is based on the successful candidate's job-related skills, experience, and relevant education/training. Siemens offers health and wellness benefits to employees; you can access the benefits available in your country via the link: https://jobs.sw.siemens.com/benefits/

Why Us

We are Siemens:

At Siemens Software, flexibility is how we work—hybrid by default, built on trust and autonomy. Together, 30,000 people across more than 200 countries build technology that shapes the real world.

You'll grow through real projects, strong technical peers, and global mobility, backed by the scale and benefits of an industrial software leader. We're committed to equality and inclusion, and we hire based on merit, skills, and impact. Bring your curiosity and creativity and help us shape tomorrow!

Diversity & Inclusion

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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