Architect

• Design and maintain end-to-end automation architectures spanning PLCs, drives, motion systems, and safety-critical control environments
• Develop scalable control strategies for high-speed and continuous manufacturing processes
• Define standards and best practices for control system design, versioning, testing, and lifecycle management
• Architect, support, and evolve SCADA and MES platforms, with deep expertise in Ignition-based systems
• Design and maintain tag models, historian strategies, alarming frameworks, and visualization standards
• Ensure high availability, performance, and maintainability of plant-floor data systems
• Establish consistent data models and interfaces between SCADA/MES and enterprise analytics platforms
• Develop and publish REST APIs and build and document OpenAPI 3.0.0 specifications using the Ignition WebDev Module
• Integrate plant-floor systems with enterprise databases and analytics platforms, including Snowflake
• Design and support secure OT/IT data pipelines leveraging AWS services and hybrid architectures
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams supporting AWS, Nutanix-based, and VMware-based environments
• Support Linux-based edge systems, containerized services, and automation-related infrastructure
• Align automation systems with enterprise security, networking, and infrastructure standards
• Provide database administration for PostgreSQL and MS SQL, including schema design, performance tuning, backup/recovery, and data integrity
• Design and deploy edge AI and machine learning inference pipelines for manufacturing use cases
• Develop and maintain Python-based services for data processing, feature extraction, and model inference
• Serve as a technical escalation point for complex automation, data, performance, and integration issues
• Lead technical design reviews and influence platform, architecture, and vendor decisions
• Mentor engineers and provide guidance on advanced automation, SCADA, data, and edge AI topics
• Translate manufacturing, quality, and operational requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that increase system uptime, data reliability, and operational efficiency

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