- Seeking an experienced Ignition SCADA SME to lead design implementation and migration of large scale SCADA systems to an Ignition AutoSol based architecture for enterprise oil gas operations
- The role will drive standardization scalability and modernization across multi asset environments
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement Ignition based SCADA platform for real time monitoring control and visualization
- Lead migration from legacy SCADA systems CygNet Wonderware to Ignition
- Define and implement SCADA architecture centralized OT hosted scalable secure
- Configure Ignition gateways Perspective UI UDT frameworks and tag models
- Integrate AutoSol ACM eACM for field data acquisition from PLCs RTUs
- Design and manage data pipelines OPC UA MQTT REST Kafka for OT IT integration
- Develop HMI screens reusable templates and high performance UI aligned to ISA 101
- Implement alarm management ISA 18
- 2 compliant with escalation workflows and notifications
- Support historization trending and enterprise integration PI FSM analytics systems
- Establish naming standards UDT governance and data quality frameworks
- Drive CI CD Dev Test Prod separation and configuration governance
- Participate in testing FAT SAT cutover planning and hypercare support
Technical Requirements:
- Core SCADA Ignition
- Robust experience in Ignition SCADA Perspective Vision Gateway architecture
- Expertise in UDT design tag modeling scripting Python SQL
- Experience building enterprise scale SCADA 1M tags multi site
- Communications Integration
- Hands on with AutoSol ACM eACM OPC UA MQTT Sparkplug B
- Experience integrating with PLC RTU protocols Modbus DNP3 ROC CIP TotalFlow
- Strong in API integration Kafka enterprise data platforms
- SCADA Modernization
- Proven experience migrating CygNet Wonderware SCADA to Ignition
- Expertise in data mapping tag standardization and historical data migration
- Experience in parallel migration coexistence strategy
- OT Architecture Security
- Understanding of Purdue architecture L0 L5 and OT IT segmentation
- Experience in high availability HA disaster recovery DR redundancy design
- Knowledge of industrial cybersecurity IEC 62443 OT security frameworks
Additional Responsibilities:
- Preferred Skills
- Experience in Oil Gas Utilities Industrial operations
- Exposure to AVEVA PI Historian integration
- Experience with Field Service Management alarm workflows Twilio integrations
- Knowledge of industrial UX UI design tools Miro wireframes
- Certifications Preferred Must have
- Ignition Core Perspective Certification
- Ignition Gold Integrator strongly preferred
- ISA 101 ISA 18
- 2 good to have
- Relevant certifications in SQL
- NET or Python
- Soft Skills
- Strong stakeholder engagement with OT Engineering Operations teams
- Experience working in large multi year transformation programs
- Ability to manage parallel workstreams and cross team coordination