Windchill Technical - Architect

Area(s) of responsibility

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Birlasoft, a global leader at the forefront of Cloud, AI, and Digital technologies, seamlessly blends domain expertise with enterprise solutions. The company's consultative and design-thinking approach empowers societies worldwide, enhancing the efficiency and productivity of businesses. As part of the multibillion-dollar diversified CKA Birla Group, Birlasoft with its 12,000+ professionals, is committed to continuing the Group's 170-year heritage of building sustainable communities.

Location: Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune, Noida
Immediate joiners preferred

Windchill Technical Architect
Birlasoft is looking for Windchill Technical Architect who will be responsible for defining, governing, and delivering the technical architecture for PTC Windchill PLM solutions across implementation, upgrade, migration, integration, and enhancement programs.

Key Responsibilities
Own the end to end technical architecture for Windchill PLM programs
Define architecture covering: Windchill system landscape (App, DB, File Vaults, Clusters), Data model, objects, lifecycles, workflows, and access controls, Customization vs OOTB strategy
Ensure solutions are PTC compliant and upgrade friendly
Provide technical direction to Developers, Functional Consultants, and Migration teams
Review and approve: Technical design documents, Customization approaches and integrations, Migration and upgrade strategies
Conduct architecture and code reviews to ensure quality and performance
Architect and govern: Windchill customizations (Actions, Validators, Workflows, UI), Integrations using REST/OData, Info*Engine, ESI, middleware
Define performance, scalability, and security standards
Troubleshoot complex production and integration issues
Define upgrade and migration architecture (Windchill Windchill / non Windchill Windchill)
Ensure customizations are compatible with newer Windchill versions and Windchill+
Support architecture decisions for rehost and cloud (AWS/Azure) deployments
Lead technical discussions and architecture workshops with customer IT and business stakeholders
Explain architectural decisions, trade offs, and risks to non technical audiences
Support UAT sign off, go live readiness, and hypercare stabilization

Required Skills & Experience
Deep hands on expertise with PTC Windchill PLM
Strong experience across multiple Windchill modules: PDMLink (mandatory), MPMLink / Change Management / PartsLink / ProjectLink (as applicable)
Strong understanding of: BOM, Part, Document, and Change management, CAD integrations and publishing
Strong experience with: Windchill Java APIs and customization framework, REST/OData services, Info*Engine, Oracle / SQL Server databases
Ability to design and review high scale Windchill architectures
Experience defining security, performance, and availability standards
Typically 12-18+ years of PLM experience with senior Windchill architectural ownership
Experience with enterprise scale programs and global deployments
Strong technical leadership and mentoring capability
Excellent communication with architects, developers, and clients
Structured problem solving and decision making skills
Ownership mindset for quality and delivery.