Based: Preston, Lanchashire - onsite
Type: Independent Contractor

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.

 

Required 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.

We’re looking for:

• 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.

Availability:

• Immediate availability is preferred.