Position Title: Windchill Solution Architect/Senior Windchill PLM Consultant
Experience: 12+ Years
Location: Remote
Domain
Medical Devices (additionally we can look at candidates from Life Sciences, Healthcare domain as well but preference shall be for candidates with Medical Devices domain background)
Employment Type: Full Time / Contract
Position Summary
We are seeking a highly experienced Windchill PLM Subject Matter Expert (SME) to lead the assessment and strategic planning for a future upgrade to PTC Windchill 2027. The ideal candidate will possess deep technical expertise in Windchill, strong business process knowledge, and a proven track record of PLM transformation programs within Life Sciences, Healthcare, or Medical Device organizations.
Key Responsibilities
Windchill Assessment & Upgrade Strategy
Customization & Technical Evaluation
Business Process Assessment
Upgrade Roadmap & Planning
End User Impact & Benefits Analysis
Data Migration & Integration Assessment (IMPORTANT)
Architecture & Governance
Windchill Assessment & Upgrade Strategy
- Perform a comprehensive assessment of the current Windchill implementation, including:
- Configuration
- Customizations
- Data model
- Workflows
- Integrations
- Infrastructure landscape
- Analyze the organization's readiness for Windchill 2027 adoption.
- Evaluate new capabilities available in Windchill 2027 and determine business applicability.
Customization & Technical Evaluation
- Review existing customizations, extensions, and configurations.
- Identify upgrade risks, technical debt, obsolete customizations, and deprecated APIs.
- Assess impact of current and planned enhancements on the Windchill 2027 implementation timeline.
- Recommend remediation, retirement, or modernization strategies.
Business Process Assessment
- Evaluate current Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) processes and alignment with Windchill best practices.
- Perform gap analysis between current processes and Windchill 2027 capabilities.
- Identify opportunities to improve engineering change management, document control, quality management, regulatory compliance, and product development processes.
Upgrade Roadmap & Planning
- Review the current implementation roadmap and identify optimal insertion points for the Windchill 2027 upgrade.
- Develop upgrade approach options including:
- In-place upgrade
- Parallel implementation
- Phased migration
- Assess timeline, cost, resource requirements, and schedule implications of each option.
End User Impact & Benefits Analysis
- Assess organizational impact of moving to Windchill 2027.
- Quantify expected benefits wherever possible, including:
- Productivity improvements
- Reduced manual effort
- Faster change processes
- Better collaboration
- Improved system performance
- Regulatory compliance efficiencies
- Conduct stakeholder interviews and change impact assessments.
Data Migration & Integration Assessment (IMPORTANT)
- Evaluate impact on:
- Product data migration
- CAD data migration
- Historical records
- Classification structures
- Change objects
- Assess integrations with:
- ERP (SAP, Oracle, etc.)
- MES
- QMS
- Regulatory Systems
- CAD Systems (Creo, SolidWorks, CATIA)
- Enterprise applications
- Recommend migration and validation strategies.
Architecture & Governance
- Review current PLM architecture and scalability.
- Recommend future-state architecture aligned with Windchill 2027.
- Establish upgrade governance, risk management, and validation approach.
Required Skills & Experience
Windchill Expertise
Technical Skills
Business & Functional Expertise
Domain Expertise (Mandatory)
Preferred / Nice-to-Have
Windchill Expertise
- 12+ years of hands-on experience with PTC Windchill.
- Expertise across:
- Windchill PDMLink
- ProjectLink
- MPMLink
- PartsLink
- Change Management
- Document Management
- Configuration Management
- Strong knowledge of Windchill versions 12.x/13.x and roadmap toward Windchill 2027.
- Experience with Windchill upgrades, migrations, and modernization programs.
Technical Skills
- Windchill customization framework.
- Java/J2EE, JSP, REST APIs.
- Windchill Workflow, OIRs, ACLs, Data Model.
- Windchill Integration Frameworks.
- Database knowledge (Oracle, SQL Server).
- Cloud and on-prem deployment architectures.
Business & Functional Expertise
- Strong understanding of PLM business processes.
- Product Development Lifecycle.
- Engineering Change Management.
- Design Control.
- Product Data Governance.
- Regulatory Compliance and Validation.
Domain Expertise (Mandatory)
- Medical Devices Industry.
- Understanding of regulated product development environments.
- Knowledge of:
- GxP
- Design History File (DHF)
- Device Master Record (DMR)
- Risk Management Processes
Preferred / Nice-to-Have
- Ability to obtain and deploy a Windchill 2027 evaluation environment from PTC.
- Hands-on installation, configuration, and sandbox assessment of Windchill 2027.
- PTC Windchill certifications.
- Experience working directly with PTC product teams.
- Prior consulting experience in large-scale PLM transformations.
- Experience preparing executive business cases and ROI assessments.
- Knowledge of:
- FDA 21 CFR Part 11
- ISO 13485
Deliverables Expected
- Current State Assessment Report
- Windchill 2027 Readiness Assessment
- Upgrade Impact Analysis
- Customization Fit-Gap Assessment
- Data Migration & Integration Impact Report
- Business Benefits & ROI Assessment
- Upgrade Roadmap with Recommended Insertion Points
- Executive Presentation and Recommendations