Architecte de Solutions / Global Solution Architect in Montréal

DASSAULT SYSTEMES, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, provides businesses and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations. Serving over 250,000 clients in 11 industries, from high-tech to life sciences, fashion to transportation, we help businesses and people around the world to create sustainable innovations for today and tomorrow.

The mission for the Global Solution Architect (GSA) is to act as chief architect for the strategic consulting efforts within the North American (NAM) GEO by collaborating with Customer accounts as well as Dassault Systemes’ (DS) internal ecosystem to develop strategic roadmaps of DS solution and process experiences (3DEXPERIENCE platform) enabling Customers to achieve their business objectives.

Working with expert Business Consultants, the GSA will draft, validate and propose account solution architectures and align and articulate the business value to DS’s strategic customers. The North America Industry and Consulting Services (I&CS) organization within DS is searching for a GSA for their strategic consulting team to support and represent our GEOs customers’ needs through defining, aligning and validating proposed system processes and solutions that demonstrate and deliver value through DS’ Value Engagement (VE) processes.

To accomplish this mission, the strategic consulting team has a need for a collaborative leader that can utilize relationships with strategic Customers and Industry partners to articulate what Customer business solutions are needed and how they might evolve to support current business in today’s environment. The GSA will also be responsible to educate the DS sales teams on new strategies and technologies, support strategic roadmap development and provide key communications enabling them to strategize with information that supports the growth of our business and evolves our customer interaction.

A successful GSA should have in-depth knowledge of the current and up-and-coming trends in the target business industries with DS solutions, while collaborating with the rest of the DS organizations to ensure continuity through the Value Engagement process from strategy to delivery.

• Define integrated Global Solution enabling the customer to execute its business strategy by providing coverage of its whole business processes with the expected business value while maintaining the final workability and relevancy of the solution.
• Contribution to the customer’s Business Objectives achievement leveraging 3DEXPERIENCE platform according to the Industry Business Challenge of the customer.
• The solution engineering by promoting SaaS Cloud solution first from Dassault Systèmes, considering the market trends.
• Expertise on the VE process to operate and orchestrate the solution engineering from the solution vision to the solution delivery.
• Build the bridge between Customer’s business processes and Dassault Systemes’ solution/technology using the VE process.
• Direct involvement with our Customers to develop a TO-BE architectural vision (including business capabilities and processes, use cases, storyboards, enterprise application landscape etc.) and roadmaps and evolve them into complete architecture dossiers for adoption.
• Direct involvement with our Customers to define, collaborate, and manage the architectural model and data model for an enterprise solution.
• Assess Customer opportunity in regards of feasibility, value and risks.
• Assist Business Consultant to identify and capture customer business values.
• Challenge customer’s business processes in regard of value creation and business transformation.
• Manage the relationship with extended DS’ organizations (R&D, Services etc.) in the context of strategic Customer relationship.
• Define or review global solution architecture leveraging 3DS know-how to support customer business objectives, highlighting committed value, and taking extra care of feasibility and delivery effort.
• Define best practices in context of solution architecture for re-use across multiple customer engagements.

Qualifications

• Engineering Degree (or equivalent) with 5+ years’ experience of global solution architecture for PLM or similar enterprise solutions with emphasis on system architecture and system design.
• Knowledge and experience of 3DEXPERIENCE platform or any large enterprise PLM software.
• Knowledge of Model Based Systems Engineering.
• Experience in popular Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (like TOGAF) and architecture capture tools like CAMEO, Rhapsody.
• Business transformation engagement experience with Customers.
• Business Process knowledge in multiple domains like system engineering, design/engineering, manufacturing, quality assurance, program management, after market etc.
• Deep knowledge in Industry standards & Business processes across multiple industry sectors (e.g. automotive, high-tech, life sciences, aerospace etc.).
• Experience working within a software project delivery lifecycle, including both on premise and SaaS Cloud solutions.
• Outstanding leadership, communication and presentation skills.
• Strategic and analytical mindset with high consultative and problem-solving skills.
• Rapid adoption of new knowledge, practices, tools and processes.
• Able and available to travel up to 50%.
• Capable of producing deliverables in English and French.
• Able to converse in French and English.
• Knowledge of 3DExperience, CATIA and DELMIA.

Inclusion statement

As a game-changer in sustainable technology and innovation, Dassault Systèmes is striving to build more inclusive and diverse teams across the globe. We believe that our people are our number one asset and we want all employees to feel empowered to bring their whole selves to work every day. It is our goal that our people feel a sense of pride and a passion for belonging. As a company leading change, it’s our responsibility to foster opportunities for all people to participate in a harmonized Workforce of the Future.

At Dassault Systèmes, permanent employees get group benefits from their first day of employment. The basic plan is 100% employer paid and includes $750 in annual flexible credits that can be allocated towards a Health Spending Account, Wellness Account or a Retirement Savings Plan. Additional coverage through an enhanced health and dental plan or optional life insurance is also available. Employees can also take advantage of our Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) to which the company will contribute up to 5% of their basic salary. Access to Telemedicine, Expert Medical Opinion and the Employee & Family Assistance Program are other benefits we are pleased to offer to our employees.

Salary Pay Transparency

Compensation for the role will be commensurate with experience. The total expected compensation range will be between $116200 and $157000, representing the base salary (or annualized salary based on estimated hourly compensation) and target bonus.

Dassault Systèmes is a catalyst for human progress. We provide business and people with collaborative virtual environments to imagine sustainable innovations. By creating virtual twin experiences of the real world with our 3DEXPERIENCE platform and applications, we bring value to more than 350,000 customers of all sizes, in all industries, in more than 150 countries. Join our global community of more than 23,800 passionate individuals!