Expert, Solution Architecture & AI

Join our dynamic team as a Software Architecture Engineer and shape the future of innovative software solutions! We're seeking a visionary architect to drive technical excellence across our R&D center and influence multiple product lines.

We are evolving our Product Lifecycle - Digital Thread architecture to become AI-enabled-supporting semantic search, knowledge retrieval (RAG), and agentic workflows that can assist engineers across requirements, change, traceability, and data quality.

This role will define the to-be architecture and guide its implementation while grounding decisions in our current Orchestra/Aras footprint and integration landscape.

You will be responsible for AI architecture governance, AI-enablement strategy, and technical leadership across the platform ecosystem-ensuring value delivery, security/compliance, and operational sustainability.

What will you do:


* Partner with engineering teams to implement architecture standards: CI/CD, environment strategy, secrets management, observability.Ensure performance, resiliency, and cost-conscious design for AI components (LLMOps, caching, batch vs.

real-time, evaluation harnesses).

To-Be Architecture & Roadmap

Assess current PLM Digital Thread architecture (Aras Innovator platform + integrations with different enterprise systems) and define the target architecture for AI enablement.

Establish a practical roadmap for GenAI + agentic capabilities that complements (not replaces)

What will make you successful:

Agentic AI, MCP, and RAG Enablement

Design patterns for:

RAG (document/data ingestion, embeddings, vector stores, retrieval policies, evaluation/guardrails).

Agentic workflows (tool use, orchestration, multi-step reasoning, human-in-the-loop approvals, auditability) enabling orchestration among different platforms

MCP server/tooling concepts to expose Digital Thread capabilities safely to AI assistants (tool contracts, permissions, observability).

Define governance: prompt/tool safety, data boundaries, authorization model, logging, red-teaming, and model risk controls.

Integration Architecture & Data Strategy

Drive integration patterns between Aras Innovator/Orchestra and tools like ALM/MBSE/PLM/DevOps systems (APIs, events, canonical models, data quality rules).

Define a "single source of truth" strategy for key Digital Thread objects (requirements, change, configuration, test evidence, trace links).

Platform Engineering & OperationStakeholder Alignment

Work with product owners, engineering leaders, compliance/legal/security to ensure solutions are usable, explainable, and policy-compliant.

Influence vendor and partner engagements (Aras, integrators) with clear architecture guardrails and technical acceptance criteria.

What's in it for you:


* 10+ years in enterprise architecture / solution architecture with hands-on technical depth.


* Demonstrated experience delivering GenAI/RAG or AI-enabled enterprise solutions (not just PoCs): embeddings, ret...