PLC SCADA Solution Architect - Factory Automation

Experience: 12–15 Years

Location: PAN India

Industry: Manufacturing, Automotive, Industrial Automation

Technology Stack: PLC SCADA Architect

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect - Factory Automation to lead integrated MES, PLC, SCADA, and shopfloor automation solutions. The candidate must possess strong controls-architecture expertise and proven experience connecting production systems with machines, lines, utilities, historians, and enterprise applications.

MES or shopfloor implementation experience is mandatory. Pre-sales and solutioning experience is also mandatory.

Key Responsibilities

• Define Level 03 architecture spanning PLC, HMI, SCADA, edge, historian, and MES layers.

• Design secure, resilient interfaces for production commands, machine states, alarms, recipes, quality parameters, and confirmations.

• Architect MES-to-machine connectivity using OPC UA, industrial protocols, APIs, MQTT, and event-driven patterns.

• Establish controls standards, tag and namespace strategy, network segmentation, redundancy, and disaster-recovery design.

• Lead site surveys, detailed design, development oversight, FAT, SAT, commissioning, ramp-up, and hypercare.

• Coordinate OEMs, automation vendors, MES teams, OT cybersecurity, plant engineering, and operations stakeholders.

• Collaborate with operations, quality, engineering, supply chain, IT, OT, vendors, and business stakeholders.

• Mentor delivery teams and enforce architecture governance, documentation, coding/configuration standards, and DevOps best practices.

Technical Skills

Mandatory

• PLC and SCADA solution architecture

• Hands-on MES-to-machine and shopfloor implementation

• OPC UA and industrial communication concepts

• Equipment states, alarms, recipes, traceability, quality collection, and production confirmation

• FAT, SAT, commissioning, cutover, and production stabilization

• Solution architecture, integration design, security, performance, and technical governance

• Pre-sales, RFP/RFI response, estimation, solutioning, workshops, and customer presentations

Preferred

• OPC UA, MQTT, REST APIs, messaging, and event-driven integration

• Cloud platforms, containers, DevOps, cybersecurity, analytics, and multi-site rollouts

• ISA-88 / ISA-95 and relevant manufacturing-domain standards

Manufacturing Domain Knowledge

Strong understanding of:

• Production execution and work-order management

• Track and trace, genealogy, quality, and nonconformance management

• Production-scheduling integration and material/inventory tracking

• Machine, equipment, PLC, SCADA, historian, and shopfloor integration

• Plant deployment, cutover, ramp-up, hypercare, and continuous improvement

Implementation Experience – Mandatory

• Proven ownership of at least one full MES, shopfloor, automation, historian, or asset-management implementation lifecycle—from discovery and architecture through build/configuration, integration, testing, deployment, and hypercare.

• Ability to lead customer and plant teams during workshops, design reviews, testing, cutover, production stabilization, and rollout.

Pre-Sales & Solutioning – Mandatory

• Support RFP/RFI responses, effort estimation, technical solutioning, architecture definition, assumptions, dependencies, risks, and commercial inputs.

• Create solution blueprints, integration architectures, sizing models, bills of material, implementation roadmaps, and delivery plans.

• Lead customer workshops, technical presentations, architecture reviews, demonstrations, and Proof-of-Concept initiatives.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Strong communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

• Ability to work across business, IT, OT, engineering, quality, operations, vendors, and globally distributed teams.