Principal Application Engineer

Responsibilities

• Define and propose integrated ELM solutions covering customer processes, ensuring strategic alignment and technical feasibility
• Collect, formalize, and analyze business requirements, translating them into detailed technical and functional specifications for ELM systems
• Design system architecture addressing data management, process automation, integration with systems like PLM/ERP/MES, and scalability for future requirements
• Oversee implementation phases, including stakeholder communication, technical governance, risk mitigation, and delivery to the business roadmap
• Facilitate workshops, blueprinting sessions, and user acceptance testing with customers to ensure adoption and change management
• Mentor consulting teams, lead presales activities (demos, effort estimation), and support sales with solution options and implementation proposals
• Work with Product Management and R&D to bring field specific improvements into product roadmaps
• Review and establish quality improvement process in the entire implementation lifecycle
• Actively contribute to the culture of this dynamic team

Qualifications

• 4 to 7 Years of Experience in PLM / ERP Implementation and Solution Architecture
• Post Graduation or Graduation in computer science or mechanical engineering

Competencies / Required Technical/Functional Competencies

• At least 4 years of proven experience as a Solution Architect, technical consultant, or in similar roles, ideally in an enterprise software implementation environment
• Good understanding of Engineering Process and Workflows in typical manufacturing companies
• Hands-on consulting experience with PLM / ERP or an enterprise software implementation, integration, and roll out
• Strong English skills, written and spoken. Proven ability to communicate with a range of people of different technical and experience levels and the ability to be self-directed as well as to work in a team
• General knowledge and experience in distributed collaborative multi-tiered enterprise applications
• Experience on following technologies is expected
• Web application development technologies like Java, JS, spring boot, Perl, XML, XSLT
• Storage infrastructure like SAN / NAS / NFS etc.
• Authentication and email systems - LDAP / SMTP
• Relational database - Oracle, Postgres etc.
• Cloud technologies
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Operating Systems - Linux and Windows
• Production use of Git, GitLab, GitHub or Azure DevOps
• Good understanding of process related software tools like Jira, Confluence etc.
• Familiarity with CAE process and tools will be an advantage
• Understanding of High-Performance Computing and queuing systems like SLURM
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Willing to travel at least 50% of the time