Description

Job Title: OT Solutions Architect Ignition SCADA
Location: Toronto/Edmonton/Calgary, Canada
Work Type: On Site (5 Days WFO)
Assignment Length: 12 Months
Years of Experience: 8-12 Years

• Lead the design and architecture of Ignition SCADA solutions aligned with enterprise and OT standards, including development and configuration of HMIs, scripting, and data flows.
• Drive integration with enterprise systems such as historians, MES, GIS, asset management, and cloud platforms.
• Support commissioning, testing, deployment, and ongoing troubleshooting of performance and communication issues.
• Ensure compliance with cybersecurity standards (e.g., Purdue Model, IEC 62443) and governance policies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and vendors, providing technical guidance and best practices.
• Translate business needs into scalable solution designs.
• Document current and future state architectures.
• Present solution options with explicit recommendations.
• Facilitate requirements and design workshops.
• Lead technical coordination and provide regular status updates.
• Mentor team members and support knowledge sharing.
• Proactively identify and manage risks.
• Ensure solution delivery aligns with business objectives, architecture design, and corporate standards.

• Minimum 3 years of experience as an OT Solutions Architect, Technical Lead, or Technical Business Analyst.
• Strong experience in Ignition SCADA architecture design.
• Solid understanding of Industrial Control Systems (ICS), SCADA, and OT environments.

• Solid knowledge of the renewable energy domain.
• Familiarity with OT cybersecurity principles and network segmentation (Purdue Model).
• Experience with SCADA system design patterns, deployment models, and high availability architectures (Ignition SCADA preferred).

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Instrumentation and Control Engineering or equivalent stream.
• Ignition Gold Certification or Core Certification preferred.