Lead Specialist, Platform Architect Operational Technology & Control Platform

Role purpose

Architecture direction and governance

• Contribute to enterprise architecture principles, platform standards, and reference architectures for OT and control platforms.
• Translate enterprise vision and roadmaps into actionable guidance for domain, platform, and solution architecture teams.
• Support architecture reviews and design assurance; document options, trade-offs, constraints, risks, and recommended patterns.
• Identify fragmentation, duplication, technical debt, and standards deviations, escalating risks to scalability, resilience, security, or interoperability.

Integration and team partnership

• Apply integration patterns across OT, control, data, AI, and enterprise systems to support end-to-end interoperability.
• Collaborate with integration, data, platform, cybersecurity, infrastructure, engineering, architecture, and delivery teams.
• Coordinate between delivery teams and enterprise architecture governance; clarify requirements, dependencies, operational constraints, and implementation considerations.

Documentation and communication

• Develop and maintain architecture artifacts, diagrams, reference patterns, standards, and design guidelines.
• Document architecture decisions, dependencies, risks, constraints, and reusable patterns.
• Communicate guidance and trade-offs clearly and support architecture knowledge sharing across delivery teams.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information technology, industrial systems, automation, control systems, or a related discipline.
• Master’s degree is preferred.
• Minimum 8–12 years in solution, domain, platform, or enterprise architecture roles in 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.

Relevant expertise

• Architecture fundamentals across IT, OT, data, and digital domains; OT and control platforms; industrial systems, SCADA/DCS, historians, and automation.
• Architecture governance, design assurance, standards, technical debt identification, integration patterns, interoperability, and reusable design.
• Systems thinking, architecture documentation, diagrams, design guidelines, decision records, collaboration, and stakeholder communication.

Success measures