OT/SCADA Solutions Architect

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

💻 Solutions Engineer

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📋 Description

• Lead the technical architecture and deployment strategy for a large-scale Inductive Automation Ignition SCADA rollout across multiple industrial locations • Translate business, operational, and plant-level requirements into scalable and repeatable SCADA architecture • Own and evolve the Ignition SCADA reference architecture for multi-site and potentially global deployments • Define standards for gateways, redundancy, communications, historians, databases, visualization, alarming, security, and system integrations • Develop and maintain gold images, deployment templates, configuration standards, and reference designs • Lead technical discovery and assess plant environments, including PLCs, control systems, networks, databases, historians, field equipment, and existing SCADA platforms • Design integrations with PLCs, controllers, OPC/OPC UA servers, MQTT infrastructure, databases, historians, MES/ERP platforms, and other OT systems • Establish standards for tag structures, naming conventions, alarming, historian configuration, templates, visualization, and reusable application components • Architect highly available, resilient, recoverable, and scalable SCADA environments • Partner with OT networking and cybersecurity teams on network segmentation, firewalls, secure communications, remote access, authentication, and OT security controls • Provide architectural guidance for OPC UA, EtherNet/IP, Modbus TCP, MQTT/Sparkplug, and related technologies • Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex SCADA, controls, communications, networking, and application-integration issues • Lead design reviews and provide technical oversight to deployment engineers and site implementation teams • Establish testing, validation, commissioning, and production-readiness standards • Review site-specific deviations and determine whether they belong in enterprise architecture or remain site-specific • Identify opportunities to automate deployments and improve repeatability across industrial locations • Produce and maintain architecture diagrams, standards, design documentation, deployment procedures, and as-built documentation • Mentor engineers and controls resources implementing the architecture • Develop a longer-term SCADA/OT technology roadmap with client leadership

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in SCADA, industrial automation, controls engineering, OT infrastructure, or related industrial technology environments • 3+ years in a senior engineering, technical lead, or architecture capacity supporting industrial systems • Demonstrated experience designing or leading enterprise or multi-site SCADA/HMI architectures • Strong knowledge of PLC integration, industrial controls, field devices, historians, databases, and plant-floor technologies • Strong understanding of OPC/OPC UA, EtherNet/IP, Modbus, MQTT, and other industrial communication protocols • Experience architecting SCADA connectivity across segmented industrial networks • Strong understanding of industrial networking, including switching, routing, VLANs, firewalls, NAT, DMZs, and OT/IT segmentation • Experience designing high-availability, redundant, scalable, and recoverable industrial systems • Understanding of OT cybersecurity principles and industrial security architecture • Ability to translate plant-specific requirements into standardized enterprise architecture • Experience leading technical design sessions and working across OT, IT, cybersecurity, networking, controls, and business teams • Strong documentation, communication, troubleshooting, and technical leadership skills • Extensive hands-on experience with Inductive Automation Ignition preferred • Ignition Gold Certification or equivalent advanced Ignition experience preferred • Experience with Ignition Perspective, Vision, Tag Historian, Alarm Notification, SQL Bridge, Enterprise Administration Module, or related modules preferred • Experience architecting multi-gateway or enterprise-scale Ignition environments preferred • Experience with MQTT/Sparkplug architectures and industrial edge computing preferred • Experience with Rockwell FactoryTalk, AVEVA/Wonderware, Siemens WinCC, GE CIMPLICITY/iFIX, or comparable SCADA platforms preferred • Strong experience with Allen-Bradley/Rockwell, Siemens, Schneider Electric, or similar PLC/control platforms preferred • Experience integrating SCADA environments with MES, ERP, cloud, data analytics, or enterprise data platforms preferred • Knowledge of ISA/IEC 62443, Purdue Model architecture, NIST guidance, or similar OT cybersecurity frameworks preferred • Experience developing standards for a multi-plant or global manufacturing organization preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package for full-time employees • Work-life balance • Company culture emphasizing teamwork, integrity, accountability, and embracing diversity

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