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 0��3 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

Robust 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.

📌 PLC SCADA Solution Architect - Factory Automation (Bengaluru)
🏢 Capgemini Engineering
📍 Bengaluru