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Industry X PTC Windchill Solution Architect

Industry X PTC Windchill Solution Architect

CompanyAccenture
LocationMontreal, QC, Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Salary$Not Provided – $Not Provided
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s
Experience LevelSenior, Expert or higher

Requirements

  • 8 + years of professional experience with Windchill or others PTC products.
  • 10 + years of professional experience in Manufacturing IT systems including ERP, PLM, IoT and QMS.
  • 2 + years of projects management experience in IT systems (Manufacturing) including ERP, PLM, IoT and QMS.
  • Bachelor’s Degree.
  • English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with English-speaking stakeholders across Canada.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with the Accenture team and key stakeholders to understand requirements, owning specifications and design documents, and deploy the applications.
  • Assist in the analysis, design and development of a roadmap and implementation based upon a current vs. future state in a cohesive architecture viewpoint.
  • Facilitate development of assets and solution frameworks that combine knowledge of the R&D and Engineering business processes and issues, technology trends and digital priorities.
  • Identify key value drivers and demonstrate how digital transformation of R&D and Engineering can enable key enterprise imperatives.
  • Lead customer workshops.
  • Lead functional teams.
  • Coach the implementation team.
  • Provide Functional system solutions for PLM.
  • Participate in the functional design and the functional Architecture of the solution.
  • Design and implement application configurations to meet business process and application requirements. Review and approve functional specifications and conduct code walk-through.
  • Gather and analyze data and develop architectural requirements at project level.
  • Act as an advocate of Product Lifecycle Management and/or Manufacturing best practices, methods, and processes.
  • Develop test plans to assure that developed solution satisfies client requirements.
  • Management and follow up on internal and external sales campaigns.
  • Continuing development and refinement of offerings and collateral to support/promote the sales of offerings (overviews, case studies, account planning, marketing information).
  • Support the creation and participate in thought leadership to create R&D and Engineering Point of view and white papers.
  • Successfully supporting the sales process from origination to successful closing (including offering fine tuning, solution shaping, proposal preparation, client presentations).
  • Meet travel requirements, up to 50%.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in at least 2 of the following industries: Aerospace & Defense, Electronics & High Tech, Energy & Utilities, Automotive/Tier 1 Suppliers, Industrial Equipment, Travel, Transportation and Logistics, Consumer packaged goods.
  • Good analytical & troubleshooting skills.
  • Experience managing teams of 5 or more people.
  • Systems Implementation methodology knowledge (Agile Methodology, Waterfall).
  • Manufacturing processes of any industry, applying knowledge of product design, fabrication, assembly, and materials etc.;
  • (PLM) CAD solutions such as ANSYS, CREO, CATIA.
  • (PLM) PTC Windchill, PDMLink, ProjectLink and MPMLink.
  • (PLM) Windchill Bulk Migration and/or Data integration experience.
  • (IoT) IoT Technologies including RFID, Bluetooth LE, Zigbee, Cisco, Axeda, ThingWorx, WindRiver, SCADA, M2M, AI, 2lemetry, AWS, Azure.
  • (IoT) IoT Field Tech Device/sensors, M2M SCADA, edge computing, Wireless comm protocols.
  • Proactive demonstrated ability to search and provide information on the key industry challenges and trends and apply new technology to, and reusing existing technology for, end to end R&D and business processes.
  • Self-starter with a bias toward action and the ability to produce results.
  • Strong team player with a “can do” attitude, and the flexibility to jump in wherever needed.
  • Able to comfortably manage multiple tasks, communicate status, escalate issues and juggle competing priorities.
  • Ability to understand business needs, articulate trade-offs, and discuss solutions with business and development teams.
  • Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.
  • Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
  • Desire to work in an information systems environment.
  • Demonstrated leadership in professional setting; either military or civilian.
  • Business development support experience.
  • Time management skills.