Application Systems Architect

Primary Responsibilities

• Own the end‑to‑end technical administration of Teamcenter PLM across Development, QA, and Production environments.
• Manage user access, roles, licenses, and security configurations, ensuring proper authorization, auditability, and compliance.
• Configure and maintain Teamcenter system settings, workflows, preferences, UI elements, and process automation.
• Plan and execute Teamcenter installations, upgrades, patching, and environment changes, including production systems.
• Act as the senior escalation point for Teamcenter incidents, performance issues, and integration problems.
• Design and evolve Teamcenter platform architecture across on‑prem and AWS environments, including hybrid deployments.
• Define and maintain backup, restore, disaster recovery (DR), and high‑availability (HA) strategies, including RPO/RTO expectations, restore testing, failover validation, and participation in DR drills.
• Own monitoring and operational practices, including log management, alerting, uptime/SLOs, runbooks, on‑call/support rotation, and problem management.
• Govern data maintenance and housekeeping activities, including BMIDE deployments, database maintenance coordination, volume growth planning, archival and purge policies, index/statistics maintenance, and file cache management.
• Define and enforce release and change‑management processes, including regression testing coordination, change windows, and rollback plans.
• Support and govern Teamcenter integrations, including Dispatcher/Visualization, CAD integrations (CATIA and future platforms), SSO/LDAP, email services, and ERP interfaces beyond T4S.
• Ensure security hardening beyond TcSS and certificates, including vulnerability and patch cadence, least‑privilege access, secrets management, and audit logging.
• Prepare license usage reports, support audits, and lead periodic access reviews and recertification activities.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, database, network, security, and cloud teams on deployments and strategic initiatives.
• Manage vendor relationships, including Siemens support cases, partners, consultants, and coordination with infrastructure providers.
• Maintain technical documentation, standards, and operational best practices; support knowledge sharing and training.

Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies. It employs about 63,000 people and manufactures its products in 49 facilities in 19 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry. For more information about Goodyear and its products, go to www.goodyear.com/corporate
Goodyear is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law.