Job Title: PLM Systems Analyst
Project Duration: 36+ months
Location: Lexington, MA (Hybrid) 2 days in a week
Background/Need
The Digital Engineering Center (DEC) is seeking a PLM Systems Analyst to bridge engineering organizations, technical stakeholders, and software development teams. The role focuses on engineering-based systems analysis within PLM and Digital Engineering environments, working directly with engineers and researchers to understand engineering workflows, technical information, system interactions, and opportunities for digital improvement.
The analyst translates complex and evolving engineering needs into functional requirements, user stories, workflows, use cases, acceptance criteria, and solution concepts. The role applies systems thinking to analyze engineering processes, product data, application behavior, integrations, and information flows across PLM and related enterprise systems.
The analyst also supports solution configuration, testing, troubleshooting, validation, and continuous improvement in partnership with architects, developers, QA professionals, product owners, and end users.
The ideal candidate combines strong analytical and communication skills with technical curiosity and the ability to bring structure to ambiguous engineering problems without imposing unnecessary process rigidity.
Primary Responsibilities
- Partner with engineers, researchers, and technical stakeholders to understand engineering practices, workflows, information needs, and opportunities for improvement.
- Perform systems analysis of engineering workflows, product data, lifecycle states, system interactions, application behavior, and integrated data flows.
- Lead stakeholder interviews, working sessions, prototype reviews, etc., and translate engineering needs into requirements, user stories, workflows, use cases, acceptance criteria, data definitions, and testable system behavior.
- Collaborate with architects, developers, QA, product owners, and users throughout solution design, development, testing, deployment, and continuous improvement.
- Evaluate workflows, data structures, configurations, integrations, and application behaviors to identify practical solution approaches.
- Analyze PLM and related enterprise systems, including integrations and data exchanges with ERP, MES, engineering, modeling, and analysis applications.
- Perform and support configuration, testing, troubleshooting, validation, and defect analysis within enterprise engineering platforms.
- Facilitate stakeholder discussions and use prototypes or working software to validate requirements and refine solutions.
- Recommend improvements that enhance engineering collaboration, traceability, data quality, usability, and decision-making.
Requirements
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Analytics, Data Science, or related discipline.
Experience
- 5+ years supporting PLM platforms.
- Experience supporting PLM, product data management, engineering data management, configuration management, technical document management, or product development applications.
- Experience working directly with engineers, researchers, scientists, or technical subject-matter experts.
- Experience analyzing and translating complex engineering needs into functional requirements and testable system behavior.
- Experience with Agile/iterative software development and the SDLC.
- Understanding of related enterprise systems such as ERP and MES.
- Experience with configurable enterprise platforms, workflows, data models, integrations, or system interfaces.
Technical Skills
- Knowledge of Product Lifecycle Management tools such as Aras, Siemens Teamcenter, Windchill, etc.
- Product Lifecycle Management – 5 years.
- Data Analysis – 7 years.
- Analyze Model and Measurement Data – 7 years.
- Reviewing Specification Requirements – 7 years.
- Software Documentation – 7 years.
- Translates Business Requirements into Technical Specifications – 7 years.
- Understands and Executes Project Requirements – 7 years.
- Automated Test Software – 7 years.
- Experience with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, etc. – 5 years.
- MS Suite, including Excel and PowerPoint – 7 years.
- MS Word Templates and Macros – 7 years.
- PowerPoint – 7 years.
- Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) – 7 years.
- Automated Build/Test environments such as Bamboo – 5 years.
- Systems Analysis – 7 years.
- Program/Project Management OR Analysis.
Soft Skills
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Strong systems-thinking, analytical, communication, and facilitation skills.
- Ability to work effectively in ambiguous, evolving engineering environments while avoiding unnecessary process rigidity.
Nice to have
- Aras Innovator experience.
- Digital Engineering, Digital Thread, MBSE, systems engineering, or engineering data management experience.
- SAP/ERP integration experience.
- SQL and/or enterprise data analysis experience.
- Familiarity with APIs, REST, XML, JSON, or web services.
- Experience with troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, prototyping, workflow modeling, or data modeling.
Nice to Have
- Creating SQL database queries.
- Experience in Digital Engineering and DE environments.
- SAP ERP Purchasing System experience.
- Experience working with APIs.
- ARAS Innovator.
Work Arrangement
- Virtual/Work from Home.
- Hybrid.
- Candidate should expect to be onsite 2 days/week.
- The team is typically onsite together on Wednesdays.
Clearance
- Interim clearance sufficient for start.
Interview Process
- There will be an initial screening and then a few Zoom rounds with the pertinent decision makers.
- Interviews may be conducted as multiple shorter Zoom interviews if scheduling does not allow a few individuals to join at the same time.
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