Solution Architect Data Historian & Distributed SCADA AspenTech

Job Description

Solution Architect - Data Historian & Distributed SCADA

Location: PAN India

Experience: 12-15 Years

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Solution Architect - Data Historian & Distributed SCADA with strong expertise in AspenTech Historian and Distributed SCADA solutions. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in architecting, implementing, and supporting enterprise-wide historian and shopfloor data solutions across manufacturing, energy, utilities, and process industries.

Mandatory: MES/Shopfloor implementation experience and Pre-sales/Solutioning experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Define enterprise and site-level AspenTech Historian & Distributed SCADA architecture, standards, governance, and roadmaps.
• Design data acquisition, buffering, compression, replication, contextualization, archival, retention, and visualization strategies.
• Architect integrations with PLCs, DCS, SCADA, OPC Servers, MES, ERP, Maintenance, Laboratory, Energy, Reporting, and Analytics platforms.
• Establish high availability, disaster recovery, OT cybersecurity, network segmentation, and remote connectivity frameworks.
• Lead assessment, sizing, design, installation, migration, testing, commissioning, deployment, and hypercare activities.
• Drive data quality, performance monitoring, backup, access governance, and production support initiatives.
• Collaborate with business, IT, OT, engineering, operations, quality, and vendor teams.
• Support RFP/RFI responses, effort estimation, solution architecture, customer workshops, technical presentations, and PoCs.

Required Skills

• AspenTech Historian and Distributed SCADA architecture
• Historian implementation, migration, commissioning, and support
• PLC, DCS, SCADA, OPC-based industrial data acquisition
• High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), replication, archival, and performance tuning
• MES/Shopfloor integration and manufacturing operations
• OT Networking and Cybersecurity
• Solution Architecture, Technical Governance, and Integration Design
• Pre-sales, Solutioning, Estimation, and Customer Engagement

Preferred Skills

• OPC UA, MQTT, REST APIs, Messaging Technologies
• Cloud Platforms, Containers, DevOps, Analytics
• Multi-site Manufacturing Rollouts
• ISA-88 and ISA-95 Standards

Ideal Candidate

• 12-15 years of experience in Manufacturing, Energy, Utilities, or Process Industries.
• Proven ownership of end-to-end MES, Historian, Automation, or Shopfloor implementations.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills.
• Experience leading workshops, design reviews, testing, cutover, production stabilization, and global rollouts.

Industry: Manufacturing, Energy, Utilities, Process Industries

Technology Stack: AspenTech, MES, SCADA, PLC, DCS, OPC, MQTT, OT Systems.

Job Description - Grade Specific

Focus on Digital Continuity and Manufacturing. Fully competent in own area. Acts as a key contributor in a more complexor critical environment. Proactively acts to understand and anticipates client needs. Manages costs and profitability for a work area. Manages own agenda to meet agreed targets. Develop plans for projects in own area. Looks beyond the immediate problem to the wider implications. Acts as a facilitator, coach and moves teams forward.