SCADA Architect
- Contract Length: 10 Months
- Work Type: Hybrid
- Location: Houston, TX
Raise is currently hiring a contract team member on behalf of our client. They’re expanding their team to meet growing needs, making this a unique opportunity to work with an industry leader.
Job Overview:
- We are seeking an experienced SCADA Architect to lead the architecture, design, and delivery of a migration to a modernized AVEVA Enterprise SCADA environment. This role combines strategic architectural leadership with hands-on technical execution, ensuring the successful implementation of a secure, resilient, highly available, and supportable solution.
- The successful candidate will collaborate with internal technology, operational technology (OT), cybersecurity, infrastructure, and business stakeholders, as well as external vendors and system integrators, to drive all phases of the migration lifecycle, including planning, design, implementation, testing, cutover, stabilization, and operational transition.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development and ownership of the target SCADA architecture, providing technical direction throughout migration, testing, cutover, stabilization, and production support readiness.
- Act as the primary OT architecture representative for migration activities, coordinating technical decisions, dependencies, risks, and changes across internal teams and external vendors.
- Oversee the migration of point databases and data models, including naming standards, alarm management configuration, data normalization, and end-to-end point validation.
- Review, validate, and approve solution designs, implementation plans, configurations, and technical deliverables to ensure compliance with architecture, cybersecurity, and operational requirements.
- Drive infrastructure and platform-related technical activities, including server provisioning, identity and access management, Active Directory integration, Group Policy configuration, network connectivity, firewall requirements, and access provisioning.
- Ensure solution designs incorporate high availability, redundancy, disaster recovery, cybersecurity controls, network segmentation, system performance, and operational resilience.
- Review and support integrations with field devices, telemetry systems, historians, databases, and other OT applications.
- Lead technical troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and issue resolution activities during implementation and stabilization phases.
- Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, system designs, data flow documentation, technical decision records, dependency logs, and as-built documentation.
- Support operational readiness activities and knowledge transfer sessions to ensure long-term supportability and maintainability of the solution.
Qualifications
- Required
- Minimum 10 years of experience designing, implementing, supporting, or architecting SCADA, Industrial Control System (ICS), or Operational Technology (OT) environments.
- Extensive experience with AVEVA Enterprise SCADA architecture, implementation, integration, modernization, and migration projects.
- Proven experience architecting, consolidating, or migrating large-scale, high-availability SCADA environments, including cutover planning and execution.
- Ability to provide technical and architectural leadership while actively contributing to hands-on technical implementation activities.
- Experience managing, reviewing, and validating deliverables provided by vendors, consultants, or system integrators from a client-side perspective.
- Strong expertise in Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, virtualization, TCP/IP networking, firewall technologies, system hardening, and OT cybersecurity controls.
- Demonstrated experience with architecture governance, technical documentation, solution review processes, and design validation.
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Preferred
- Experience supporting natural gas, pipeline, utility, energy, or critical infrastructure operations.
- Experience leading SCADA modernization, platform consolidation, migration, or replacement initiatives across geographically distributed environments.
- Knowledge of production and disaster recovery environments, remote field communications, and Management of Change (MOC) processes.
- Familiarity with OT and industrial cybersecurity frameworks and standards, including ISA/IEC 62443, ISA-95, ISA-99, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, and the Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture Model.
- Relevant certifications in architecture, cybersecurity, networking, cloud technologies, or SCADA and industrial systems are considered an asset.
Key Competencies
- SCADA Architecture & Design
- AVEVA Enterprise SCADA
- Operational Technology (OT)
- Industrial Control Systems (ICS)
- Industrial Cybersecurity
- High Availability & Disaster Recovery
- Systems Integration
- Technical Leadership
- Vendor & Stakeholder Management
- Migration & Modernization Programs
- Troubleshooting & Root Cause Analysis
- Documentation & Knowledge Transfer
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