Summary of Position: At Alcon, we are driven by the meaningful work we do to help people see brilliantly. We innovate boldly, champion progress, and act with speed as the global leader in eye care. Here, you’ll be recognized for your commitment and contributions and see your career like never before. Together, we go above and beyond to make an impact on the lives of our patients and customers. We foster an inclusive culture and are looking for diverse, talented people to join Alcon. As a Principal Platform Architect - Teamcenter within the Siemens Teamcenter Center of Excellence (CoE), you will assist in developing the end‑to‑end operational governance, service reliability, and continuous improvement of the enterprise Teamcenter platform. This role ensures stable, compliant, and predictable operations for a single, globally deployed Teamcenter environment, serving as the operational bridge between business stakeholders, technical SMEs, DevOps, infrastructure teams, and support engineers. The position combines strong service management discipline, deep Teamcenter domain knowledge, and a CoE governance mindset to drive operational excellence at scale. Contributing to an ecosystem of applications that host systems-based design, modeling, development, validation, and transfer to downstream operations that ultimately result in the launch of new medical devices that preserve, protect and restore sight for millions of patients. Based in AGS Bangalore, the Principal Platform Architect - Teamcenter serves as a technical authority for infrastructure‑related decisions and serves as a key partner to DevOps, application, and support teams to ensure scalable, secure, and highly available platforms. Key

Responsibilities

Implementing and supporting the infrastructure architecture roadmap for Teamcenter, Polarion, and associated applications. Assist in formulating standards for environment design and sizing, capacity planning and performance targets and high availability and disaster recovery Designing and supporting scalable and resilient architectures across application and web tiers, middleware and integration services, and file management, storage, and data services Performing hands‑on design, build, configuration and support of PLM platform infrastructure, including: Teamcenter Enterprise Tier, Web Tier, FMS, Dispatcher, and Volume Servers and Polarion application, reporting, and integration services Participating directly in complex platform troubleshooting and root‑cause analysis. Configuring and tuning application servers and JVM settings, load balancing and failover solutions, storage, backup, and recovery mechanisms Implement monitoring, alerting, and capacity forecasting mechanisms for PLM platforms. Mentoring junior resources to enable the team to meet objectives. Collaborate with application and integration teams on architectural and infrastructure topics. Key Requirements/Minimum

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent years of related experience (or high school+12 yrs; Assoc.+10 yrs; M.S.+5 yrs; PhD+4 yrs) The ability to fluently read, write, understand, and communicate in English 6 Years of Relevant

Experience

Preferred Qualifications

Extensive hands‑on experience supporting Siemens Teamcenter infrastructure in production environments. Demonstrated experience operating as a senior platform engineer. Strong expertise in Teamcenter infrastructure architecture and deployment models

Experience

with Polarion infrastructure and application services

Experience

with Windows, Linux, Application servers (e.g., WebLogic, Tomcat)

Experience

with Enterprise applications, storage system and file services, load balancers, networking, and firewall concepts.

Experience

with Database platforms (Oracle and/or SQL Server) from an infrastructure perspective. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with both technical stakeholders. Strong analytical and troubleshooting capabilities. Ability to identify problems and develop solutions.

Experience

with GxP applications is preferred.

Experience

in regulated industry (Medical devices) preferred. HOW YOU CAN THRIVE AT ALCON: Benefit from working in a highly collaborative and diverse environment where your contribution is valued. Alcon provides a robust benefits package including health, life, retirement, paid time off, and much more! Join Alcon’s mission to provide top-tier, innovative products and solutions that enhance sight, enhance lives, & help others "See Brilliantly!" Work hours: 1 PM to 10 PM IST Relocation assistance: Yes Employment Scams: Alcon is aware of employment scams which make false use of our company name or leader’s names to defraud job seekers. Alcon does not offer any positions without interview and never asks candidates for money. All our current job openings are displayed here on the Careers section of our website, where you can search for open positions and apply directly. If you have encountered a job posting or been approached with a job offer that you suspect may be fraudulent, we strongly recommend you do not respond, send money or personal information, and check our website for current job openings. ATTENTION: Current Alcon Employee/Contingent Worker If you are currently an active employee/contingent worker at Alcon, please click the appropriate link below to apply on the Internal Career site. Find Jobs for Employees Find Jobs for Contingent Worker Alcon is an Equal Opportunity Employer and takes pride in maintaining a diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, or any other reason. At Alcon, we are committed to helping people see better. We believe patients should have access to quality eye care regardless of their economic circumstances; however, barriers to good eye health exist for patients in both developed and emerging markets. Alcon develops and manufactures innovative devices to serve the full life cycle of eye care needs. Its surgical group is one of the largest makers of equipment used for cataract removal and laser vision correction. Its consumer products include the well-known Opti-Free line of contact lens solutions and related products. Alcon, which was founded in 1945, sells its products in 180 countries worldwide. If you are currently an active employee/contingent worker at Alcon, please click the appropriate link below to apply on the Internal Career site. Find Jobs for Employees Find Jobs for Contingent Worker