Business Architect Product Lifecycle Management(Remote) at Cisco

Product Lifecycle Business Architect

This is a remote role based in the USA.

Component Central Operations (CCO) supports Cisco's Silicon and Optical supply chains driving business transformation that delivers scalable, profitable growth. Our team's mission is to drive strategic alignment and operational excellence across the organization. We achieve this by leveraging our expertise in program management, data and analytics, and business architecture. We work in a fast-paced environment collaborating across global teams to enable strategic business outcomes.

We are seeking a Product Lifecycle Business Architect to design, optimize, and govern the end-to-end business processes and systems supporting our products from concept through end-of-life. In this role, you will bridge business strategy, supply chain operations, and technology to build a scalable, efficient product lifecycle ecosystem aligned with our supply transformation objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the target-state business architecture for product lifecycle management (PLM) across engineering, supply chain, operations, and finance.
• Translate supply transformation strategy into actionable lifecycle process and capability roadmaps.
• Establish governance frameworks, standards, and protocols for PLM processes and data integrity.
• Map current- and future-state product lifecycle processes and identify capability gaps.
• Develop business requirements, functional specifications, and data models.
• Lead multi-functional workshops to capture and validate requirements.
• Evaluate and recommend PLM/ERP tools and integrations.
• Build cases, including return on investment and cost-benefit analyses.
• Define targets and metrics to measure and improve lifecycle performance.
• Partner with IT/solution architects to translate business needs into technical designs.
• Support change management, testing, deployment, and post-implementation optimization.

Minimum Qualifications

• 6+ years of Product Lifecycle Management experience in the Semiconductor industry
• 8+ years of experience in business architecture, process design, or PLM-related roles.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, or related field.
• Proven expertise in PLM systems and business process modeling.
• Experience with Oracle, Siemens, or SAP PLM Applications

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering large scale transformation programs
• Six Sigma Green Belt training
• Experience in delivering AI solutions