Solution Architect - Data Historian & Distributed SCADA
Location: PAN India
Experience: 12–15 Years
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced Solution Architect - Data Historian & Distributed SCADA with strong expertise in AspenTech Historian and Distributed SCADA solutions. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in architecting, implementing, and supporting enterprise-wide historian and shopfloor data solutions across manufacturing, energy, utilities, and process industries.
Mandatory: MES/Shopfloor implementation experience and Pre-sales/Solutioning experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Define enterprise and site-level AspenTech Historian & Distributed SCADA architecture, standards, governance, and roadmaps.
- Design data acquisition, buffering, compression, replication, contextualization, archival, retention, and visualization strategies.
- Architect integrations with PLCs, DCS, SCADA, OPC Servers, MES, ERP, Maintenance, Laboratory, Energy, Reporting, and Analytics platforms.
- Establish high availability, disaster recovery, OT cybersecurity, network segmentation, and remote connectivity frameworks.
- Lead assessment, sizing, design, installation, migration, testing, commissioning, deployment, and hypercare activities.
- Drive data quality, performance monitoring, backup, access governance, and production support initiatives.
- Collaborate with business, IT, OT, engineering, operations, quality, and vendor teams.
- Support RFP/RFI responses, effort estimation, solution architecture, customer workshops, technical presentations, and PoCs.
Required Skills
- AspenTech Historian and Distributed SCADA architecture
- Historian implementation, migration, commissioning, and support
- PLC, DCS, SCADA, OPC-based industrial data acquisition
- High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), replication, archival, and performance tuning
- MES/Shopfloor integration and manufacturing operations
- OT Networking and Cybersecurity
- Solution Architecture, Technical Governance, and Integration Design
- Pre-sales, Solutioning, Estimation, and Customer Engagement
Preferred Skills
- OPC UA, MQTT, REST APIs, Messaging Technologies
- Cloud Platforms, Containers, DevOps, Analytics
- Multi-site Manufacturing Rollouts
- ISA-88 and ISA-95 Standards
Ideal Candidate
- 12–15 years of experience in Manufacturing, Energy, Utilities, or Process Industries.
- Proven ownership of end-to-end MES, Historian, Automation, or Shopfloor implementations.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills.
- Experience leading workshops, design reviews, testing, cutover, production stabilization, and global rollouts.
Industry: Manufacturing, Energy, Utilities, Process Industries
Technology Stack: AspenTech, MES, SCADA, PLC, DCS, OPC, MQTT, OT Systems.