Solution Architect

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.

Our team has an immediate opening for a Solution Architect.

The Solution Architect at Dassault Systèmes plays a pivotal role in bridging customer business objectives with technical solutions, primarily leveraging the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Key responsibilities include:

Solution Design & Delivery

• Define and propose integrated global solutions that enable customers to achieve their business strategies and operational goals by leveraging Dassault Systèmes’ industry know-how and 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
• Ensure solutions cover the entire scope of business processes while guaranteeing workability, relevancy, and alignment with committed value (e.g., Statement of Work/SoW).
• Promote cloud-first solutions and out-of-the-box (OOTB) capabilities to maximize efficiency and scalability

Customer & Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a key contributor in the Value Engagement framework, participating in gate reviews to assess feasibility, risks, and value of customer opportunities.
• Challenge and refine customer business processes to drive value creation and business transformation, ensuring alignment with Dassault Systèmes’ best practices.
• Collaborate with Business Consultants to capture and adapt customer processes, ensuring solutions meet tactical and long-term needs.
• Support Consultants, System Integrators (SIs), and internal teams (e.g., R&D, DSIS) to ensure seamless delivery and knowledge sharing.

Technical & Strategic Leadership

• Deliver Solution Architecture studies, evaluating technical risks and opportunities in line with Dassault Systèmes’ methodology.
• Contribute to Request for Information (RFI)/Request for Proposal (RFP) responses by providing architectural expertise.
• Ensure technical continuity between TechSales (pre-sales) and Services (post-sales) activities, both internally and externally.
• Capitalize on customer experience and project deliverables to create reusable assets, maximizing efficiency across engagements.

Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing

• Leverage the IFWE (Industry Future Workforce Engagement) Loop to manage interactions with customers and the broader ecosystem, ensuring capitalization of relevant information .
• Foster collaboration across Dassault Systèmes’ global teams (e.g., R&D, Industry) to maintain a unified view of solution architecture and drive customer satisfaction.
• Provide feedback to product teams to influence the roadmap and architecture of Dassault Systèmes’ solutions.

Industry & Platform Expertise

• Promote Dassault Systèmes’ Industry Solution Experiences (ISEs) and Industry Process Experiences (IPEs), adapting them to customer needs while staying true to OOTB capabilities.

• Bachelors’ Degree or Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• 15+ years of experience
• Technical proficiency in 3DEXPERIENCE
• Automotive Industry-specific knowledge to tailor solutions effectively
• Strategic thinking to align technical solutions with business outcomes.
• Problem-solving to assess risks, feasibility, and value in complex engagements.
• Drive strategic alignment for business transformation
• Develop and promote differentiating value of technology
• Solution modeling & technology demonstrations to address business problems
• Customer Facing skills & Exec Level engagement
• Experience working with global cross functional teams

The role is highly collaborative, spanning pre-sales, delivery, and post-implementation phases, with a strong emphasis on customer-centric innovation and scalable, cloud-first solutions. For an Expert Solution Architect, these responsibilities would likely be executed with greater autonomy, mentorship of junior architects, and deeper influence on strategic decisions.