ARAS PLM Solutions Manager

Our client is looking to add an ARAS PLM Solutions Manager to their team. The Aras PLM Solutions Manager will be responsible for disciplined project execution, cross functional coordination, and delivery of committed outcomes across IT, engineering, quality, supply chain and external partners. The Aras PLM Solutions Manager role is pivotal in turning strategy into execution—ensuring system configuration, migration, integrations, and phased deployments are delivered predictably, securely, and with strong business adoption. This role involves managing development team, releases & support and assisting customers with

the proper usage of Aras Innovator PLM.

No C2C, must be permanent resident or US Citizen. Target salary ~ $150k.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage & define processes, capabilities delivered on the Aras Platform to meet customer requirements, Configuration/ customization of PLM. Adapt to developing solutions in consistent with an "Out of the Box" approach.
• Ensure delivery aligns with approved scope, timeline, and quality standards, Lead end-to-end project execution for planned PLM implementation phases
• Coordinate activities with business, IT teams, ERP team, Aras implementation partners and vendors and extended IT to roll out solutions and provide resolutions to issues found during production rollout
• Evaluate engineering processes, map functions to appropriate software, propose, develop, and implement solutions.
• Collaborating with other team leads, Engineers, third party software consultants, and ITS application owners in one or more phases of Project Planning, Requirements Development, Design, Build, Test and Maintenance.
• Validate proposed solutions developed internally or in coordination with vendors and further propose them to the internal IT team, Enterprise architecture review board, IT Info Security, Data Governance and business SMEs to get consensus and sign-offs.
• Champion Aras portfolio solution offers from a functional point of view and evaluate them for potential solutions to business user problems or IT application needs and design integration as a manager and develop new solutions.
• Develop standard methodologies for system maintenance and application development for the PLM IT team.
• Demonstrable experience guiding and educating SMEs in relation to ARAS and platform capabilities is an advantage.
• Oversee Aras Innovator configs, ensuring configuration-over-customization principles as per governance policies
• Coordinate system integrations with CAD, ERP (and other identified data systems as needed)
• Support SaaS deployment readiness, including security, access, and compliance requirements
• Collaborate & lead design discussions with the development team to design and Architect solutions for software applications, systems, and/or data integration level using standard processes and Aras configuration guidelines.
• Develop application testing strategies, code review processes, and guide the development team with unit, integration, and end-to-end process test-case development.
• Continuous Improvement to Promote DevOps, CI/CD best practices, and agile methodologies for PLM deployments.
• Have a thorough understanding of large-scale enterprise application deployment methodologies Agile environment

Required Qualifications:

• BS/MS in Engineering or ME, EE, IE with software programming skills.
• 10 -12 years of PLM Implementation, project management experience in enterprise technology scale
• 4 years leading and managing specifically Aras PLM engineering systems, or complex SaaS implementations
• Proficiency in Aras Innovator functional areas like Part, Change, CAD and BOM Management
• Good functional knowledge of Aras SaaS platform with latest versions of the software.
• Strong project management skills and discipline (scope, schedule, risk, issue management)
• Familiarity with PLM concepts (configuration, workflows, data governance)
• Experience with CAD Integrations, enterprise (ERP) integrations and SaaS platforms deployments
• Awareness of IT security and compliance considerations
• Good working knowledge with project management tools and ALM tools like JIRA, Confluence.