Planisware Technical Architect

Aquent, a premier talent solutions partner, invites you to seize a transformative opportunity with a global leader in the automotive industry. In this pivotal role, you will directly shape the future of vehicle manufacturing and product development, leveraging cutting-edge technology to revolutionize how this innovative company manages its product lifecycle, R&D, and strategic planning. Your expertise will be instrumental in modernizing critical business systems and driving enterprise-wide innovation, making a tangible impact on the company's continued success and evolution.

About the Company

Join a pioneering organization at the forefront of the automotive industry, renowned for driving innovation and shaping the future of vehicle manufacturing. This company is dedicated to pushing technological boundaries and delivering groundbreaking products, creating a dynamic environment where your contributions directly influence global impact and operational excellence.

About the Role

Step into a pivotal role as a Technical Architect, where you will be the primary technical authority for an enterprise platform. This is your chance to lead the technical design, architecture, integration, and implementation of a state-of-the-art SaaS solution, transitioning critical business systems from legacy platforms. You will ensure seamless alignment with enterprise architecture standards, robust portfolio management processes, comprehensive data strategy, and stringent security requirements. Your work will directly support vital functions across Product Development, R&D, PMO, and Planning, significantly contributing to the efficiency and innovation of vehicle manufacturing, lifecycle planning, and new model launches. You will lead technical direction and deployments, setting strategy and guiding execution within a dynamic, agile environment focused on product development business systems, actively leveraging modern technologies and AI concepts to drive enterprise-wide innovation.

Key Responsibilities

Solution Architecture & Platform Design

• Define and maintain the overall technical architecture for implementations across various business domains.
• Establish scalable solution designs to support enterprise portfolio management, project management, resource planning, financial planning, and scenario planning capabilities.
• Design multi-environment strategies, encompassing development, testing, and production environments.
• Ensure strict compliance with enterprise architecture, security, and integration standards.
• Develop architectural standards, reusable components, and technical best practices to foster efficiency and consistency.

System Configuration & Development Leadership

• Lead the technical configuration of the platform.
• Guide development teams on best practices for configuration, customization, extensions, workflows, and automation.
• Conduct thorough reviews of technical designs and code to ensure optimal performance, maintainability, and scalability.
• Support release management, deployment planning, and environment governance.

Enterprise Integration

• Design and oversee critical integrations between the platform and core enterprise systems, including SAP, Jira, Active Directory / SSO, data warehouses, and reporting platforms.
• Define robust API, file-based, and event-driven integration patterns.
• Collaborate effectively with enterprise integration and data engineering teams to implement reliable and secure data exchanges.

Data Migration & Data Architecture

• Own the technical strategy for all data conversion and migration activities.
• Design comprehensive migration frameworks, validation approaches, reconciliation processes, and cutover plans.
• Lead data quality assessments, remediation activities, and the migration of essential project, portfolio, resource, financial, and historical program data.

Governance, Security & Operations

• Establish robust platform governance standards and technical operating procedures.
• Design secure role-based security models, access controls, and support audit/compliance requirements.
• Define strategies for monitoring, performance management, backup, disaster recovery, and operational support processes.

Stakeholder Engagement & Leadership

• Partner strategically with implementation partners, business leaders, PMO organizations, Finance, Product Development, and IT stakeholders.
• Translate complex business requirements into clear technical solution designs, while facilitating architecture reviews and design workshops.
• Mentor internal resources and actively contribute to building a Center of Excellence (CoE).

Required Qualifications

• Education: High School Diploma required; Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Architecture Experience: Minimum of 8 years of enterprise application architecture experience.
• Platform Experience: Minimum of 5 years of hands-on implementation and configuration experience, including proven experience as a Technical Architect on large-scale Enterprise deployments.

Top Technical Must-Haves

1. Enterprise & SaaS Architecture: Deep expertise in platform configuration, data model design, workflow automation, and scripting.
2. Relational Databases & Data Architecture: Strong proficiency in SQL and database architecture.
3. Core Programming Languages: High proficiency in Java and JavaScript.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Experience supporting automotive, vehicle manufacturing, engineering, or R&D domain systems.
• Experience implementing enterprise PPM solutions at a global scale.
• Familiarity with SAP, Jira, Azure technologies, Power BI, ServiceNow, and Enterprise Data Lake architectures.
• Experience establishing or operating a Portfolio Management Center of Excellence.
• Developer certification.

About Aquent Talent

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits! Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.