Solution Architect - Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) - West Coast USA (Remote)
Foster City, CA

Job Description

Organization: Digital Industries

Business Unit: Software

Requisition Number: 224878

Primary Location: United States-California-Foster City

Assignment Category: Full-time regular

Experience Level: Mid level

Education Required Level: Bachelor's Degree

Travel Required: 70%

Division Description:

Digital Factory (DF) Siemens Digital Factory offers a comprehensive portfolio of seamlessly-integrated hardware software and technology-based services in order to support manufacturing companies worldwide. Siemens PLM Software, a Plano, Texas-based business unit of the Digital Factory Division, is a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) and manufacturing operations management (MOM) software, systems and services with over nine million licensed seats and more than 77,000 customers worldwide.

For more information, please visit:

https://www.siemens.com/us/en/home/company/about/businesses/digital-factory.html

Job Description:

Solutions Architect - Siemens Polarion - Applications Lifecycle Management - West Coast USA (Remote must reside in Pacific Time Zone)

Position Overview

As a result of Siemens Polarion Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Team's success we are searching for Solutions Architects. This position will work productively with Consultants, Architects, Project Managers, and other internal and external interfaces to ensure that the customer succeeds in their objectives. You will translate the business requirements into specific process aligned designs using Siemens ALM Software solutions based on multi product within multi industry domains. You will architect these solutions from conceptual design through delivery to include implementation and testing. The end goal is to deliver market leading solutions that provide quality and value to the customer.

Responsibilities

* Interact with the customer to support the management of customer expectations and

support customer adoption by leveraging the complete Siemens Delivery framework.

* Act as solution consultant to strategic Sales/PreSales pursuits and Services projects, providing guidance through the complexity of solution architecture options and the long term roadmap for the solution.
* Act as the ultimate authority on architectural design to address business problems.
* Provides direction for process design process integration and process change activities either internally or at customer sites.
* Where required lead Solution Leadership elements of the ALM deployment framework.
* Consults on strategic and/or complex Enterprise projects at country level, of diverse scope that require specialist expertise and high levels of technical leadership.
* Where required, act as Lead Solution Architect or account champion for specific Global projects.
* Design and deliver the solution ensuring that the technical integrity of the solution remains aligned to requirements and value delivery throughout project and that the various project solutions will work together to deliver value.
* Works under self-management within project and/ or task constraints and will determine solutions, methods and procedures on assignments/projects.
* Collaborate with global colleagues and partners to enhance and deliver product and service features.
* Leverage relevant templates in the leadership of project solutions in own specialist area worldwide, and curate best practices and templates, providing mentoring in the creation and adoption of templates and solutions within the Siemens Polarion Services Practice.

Qualified Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States. Qualified Applicants will not require employer sponsored work authorization now or in the future for employment in the United States.

Knowledge/Skills, Education, and Experience

If you are a professional who has a customer focused mindset and are continually learning new technologies in varied industries…read more…

* 2+ years Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and/or Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) experience
* 2+ years experience in a Customer Facing position (Pre-sales, Consultancy and/or Training)
* 4 years Software Industry experience in a technical role.
* Experience, knowledge and developed interest in the following:

: Process models (e.g. RUP, XP, V -Model, CMM, Agile, Scrum, Kanban)

Java development, J2EE, wiki scripting, Javascript and Velocity scripting

Subversion, Git, Perforce, Plastic SCM

Requirement Engineering

Configuration Management

Version Management

Change Management

Problem Tracking

Project/Task Management

QA, Issue/Defect Management

* Experience and developed knowledge of related Product tools such as:

IBM Rational Doors

IBM Rational RTC

PTC MKS Integrity

Jama Contour

Atlassian Jira

Cognition Cockpit

Blueprint Software

HP ALM

Microsoft TFS

* Strong verbal and written and presentation and communication skills
* LI-PLM #LI-TH1