PLM Architect

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience delivering Business Transformation Consulting engagements within complex enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of Product Life cycle Management (PLM) platforms, processes, and operating models.
• Experience working with Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and connected asset ecosystems.
• Product Development (PD) Architecture experience within engineering-led organisations.
• Experience leading discovery and assessment activities for large-scale transformation programmes.
• Strong business architecture and enterprise transformation consulting capabilities.
• Ability to translate business requirements into architectural and strategic recommendations.
• Experience producing architectural deliverables and transformation artefacts.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to engage effectively with senior business and technical stakeholders.
• Aerospace & Defence industry experience.
• Maritime sector experience.
• Submarine programme or defence engineering knowledge.
• Enterprise systems integration experience.
• Understanding of digital thread and digital engineering concepts.
• Experience working within highly regulated environments.
• Knowledge of engineering data management and systems interoperability.
• Prior consulting experience on large-scale transformation programmes.

Responsibilities:

• Lead discovery activities to understand current business processes, systems, and integration challenges.
• Define target-state architecture and transformation roadmaps supporting PLM and IoT initiatives.
• Assess engineering, manufacturing, and operational technology landscapes and identify improvement opportunities.
• Facilitate workshops with business stakeholders, subject-matter experts, and technical teams.
• Develop architecture artefacts, capability maps, business process models, and transformation recommendations.
• Analyse how product life cycle, engineering data, and operational information can be integrated to improve business outcomes.
• Support the development of digital engineering strategies and enterprise transformation plans.
• Produce executive-level presentations, strategic recommendations, and architecture documentation.
• Collaborate across multiple client, supplier, and IBM teams to align programme objectives.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and opportunities relating to enterprise integration and business transformation initiatives.
• Support governance activities and provide architectural guidance throughout the discovery phase.

Technologies:

• Architect
• IBM
• IoT
• Support

More:

We are offering a hybrid Business Transformation Consultant (PLM Architect) role, likely working 2-3 days on-site, at a rate of £595 per day inside IR35. We are supporting a strategic transformation initiative for BAE Systems, focused on Product Development Architecture, Product Life cycle Management, Internet of Things, and enterprise transformation. This high-profile consulting role sits within an Integration Discovery Programme, where we are connecting engineering, manufacturing, and operational technology ecosystems to enable future digital engineering capabilities. We are looking for someone who can work closely with business stakeholders, architects, and technology specialists across a complex, highly regulated engineering environment.

last updated 36 week of 2026