Lead Specialist, Platform Architect Operational Technology & Control Platform

Why This Role Matters

Enterprise Architecture Direction

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of enterprise architecture principles, platform standards, and reference architectures for OT and control platforms.
• Translate enterprise architecture vision and roadmaps into actionable guidance for domain, platform, and solution architecture teams.
• Support alignment of architectural designs across OT, data, AI, integration, cloud, and core systems with enterprise standards.
• Provide practical architecture guidance that balances enterprise consistency with operational technology realities.

Architecture Alignment & Governance

• Participate in architecture reviews and support design assurance for OT, control platform, and cross-domain technology solutions.
• Identify risks related to fragmentation, duplication, unmanaged technical debt, and non-compliance with architecture standards.
• Support governance decisions by documenting design options, trade-offs, constraints, risks, and recommended architecture patterns.
• Escalate architecture risks and deviations where platform designs may impact scalability, resilience, security, or interoperability.

Cross-Domain Integration & Interoperability

• Apply defined integration patterns and reference architectures across OT, control platforms, data platforms, AI solutions, and enterprise systems.
• Support end-to-end interoperability across IT, OT, data, digital, and industrial control environments.
• Collaborate with integration, data, platform, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and engineering teams to enable scalable and reusable solutions.
• Promote reusable architecture patterns that reduce duplication and improve consistency across platforms and sites.

Domain and Platform Team Partnership

• Work closely with domain architects, platform architects, solution architects, engineering teams, and delivery teams to support solution design.
• Act as a coordination point between delivery teams and enterprise architecture governance for OT and control platform matters.
• Support platform architecture decisions by clarifying requirements, dependencies, operational constraints, and implementation considerations.
• Ensure solution designs are practical, technically coherent, and aligned with architecture standards and operating environment needs.

Architecture Documentation & Communication

• Develop and maintain architecture artifacts, diagrams, reference patterns, standards, and design guidelines for OT and control platforms.
• Document architectural decisions, dependencies, risks, constraints, and reusable design patterns for platform and solution teams.
• Communicate architectural guidance, trade-offs, and constraints to technical and non-technical stakeholders in a clear and practical manner.
• Support architecture knowledge sharing to improve consistency, adoption, and design quality across delivery teams.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Industrial Systems, Automation, Control Systems, or a related discipline.
• Master's Degree is preferred.

Experience

• Minimum 8-12 years of experience in solution, domain, platform, or enterprise architecture roles within large-scale technology environments.
• Experience supporting architecture design, governance, integration, and interoperability across OT, control systems, data platforms, cloud, and enterprise systems.
• Exposure to industrial, mining, manufacturing, utilities, or asset-intensive environments is preferred.

Skills That Matter

• Enterprise, platform, and solution architecture fundamentals across IT, OT, data, and digital domains.
• OT and control platform architecture, industrial systems, SCADA/DCS, historians, and automation environments.
• Architecture governance, standards enforcement, design assurance, and technical debt identification.
• Integration patterns, interoperability, reference architecture, and reusable solution design.
• Systems thinking and ability to assess cross-domain impacts across platforms and operations.
• Architecture documentation, diagrams, design guidelines, standards, and decision records.
• Collaboration with domain architects, platform architects, engineers, cybersecurity, data, and delivery teams.
• Clear communication of architecture decisions, trade-offs, constraints, and risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.