{"id":1328227,"url":"https://alion.io/job/flex-factory-data-architect-it","title":"Factory Data Architect - IT","company":{"id":1845316,"name":"Flex","domain":"flex.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/flex-com","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":null},"role":"Data Science","role_family":"Data Science","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Chennai, India","Pune, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":39000,"max_usd":90000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":404},"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Digital Twin","optional":false},{"name":"ETL/ELT","optional":false},{"name":"Knowledge Graph","optional":false},{"name":"MQTT","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-04T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-04","last_verified_at":"2026-09-27T22:45:32Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":24,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":24},"description":"Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.Job Description\nTo support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Factory Information Architect - IT in Chennai, India.\nThis role will lead the definition and governance of theFactory Information Architecture for the Flex Future Factory ecosystem. The position will define how physical factory structures, logical business structures, and manufacturing information are represented, related, contextualized, and governed across manufacturing systems, analytics, Digital Twins, and AI-enabled solutions.\nThe role will work jointly with Factory Integration and Automation teams, which contribute technical naming, payload, connectivity, and implementation standards. The Factory Information Architect will ensure that the required enterprise capabilities, governance mechanisms, and technology solutions exist to catalog, manage, contextualize, validate, and monitor these standards at scale. The role must understand the relevant technologies sufficiently to define practical requirements and guide delivery teams, but is not expected to build pipelines or platforms directly.\nReports to Director and the role involves,\nWhat a typical day looks like:\nDefine and maintain the Future Factory Information Architecture strategy, standards, governance model, and roadmap.\n\nDefine and govern the Physical Location Structure for factories, buildings, areas, production lines, cells, stations, equipment, and assets.\n\nDefine and govern the Logical Factory Structure for business units, customers, programs, manufacturing entity or site codes, business units, customers and other core business entities.\n\nEstablish common information models, identifiers, hierarchies, metadata, business definitions, and semantic relationships across physical and logical structures.\n\nDefine requirements for data catalogs, business glossaries, metadata repositories, schema registries, and related capabilities needed to manage manufacturing information standards.\n\nPartner with Enterprise IT, Factory Integration and Automation teams on naming conventions, payload structures, attribute standards, data contracts, and controlled vocabularies, while ensuring enterprise alignment and governance.\n\nDefine how manufacturing information must be mapped, transformed, validated, enriched, and contextualized as it moves across factory and enterprise platforms.\n\nEstablish schema governance and validation requirements, including versioning, compatibility, mandatory attributes, quality rules, semantic conformance, exception handling, and monitoring.\n\nGovern Unified Namespace information structures, contextual models, ownership principles, and alignment with approved schemas and information standards.\n\nDefine the information foundations required for Digital Twin, Knowledge Graph, analytics, and AI capabilities.\n\nLead architecture reviews and governance forums, monitor adoption and conformance, and work with technical teams to ensure consistent implementation.\n\nThe experience we’re looking to add to our team:\nEducation: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Architecture, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related discipline.\n\nExperience: Typically 10+ years in information, data, enterprise, solution, or manufacturing systems architecture, including complex global or multi-site initiatives.\n\nStrong experience with information modeling, metadata management, business and asset hierarchies, semantic standards, master and reference data, data catalogs, and governance frameworks.\n\nExperience defining schema governance, validation rules, data contracts, transformation requirements, information quality controls, and conformance processes.\n\nGood understanding of MES, ERP, SCADA, OT systems, equipment connectivity, quality, maintenance, inventory, engineering, and manufacturing operations.\n\nWorking knowledge of MQTT, event streaming, APIs, integration services, ETL/ELT, schema registries, cloud data platforms, Knowledge Graphs, Digital Twins, and semantic technologies sufficient to evaluate options and guide implementation teams.\n\nStrong stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, and decision-making skills, with the ability to influence global cross-functional teams.\n\nWhat you’ll receive for the great work you provide:\nHealth Insurance\n\nPTO\n\nNK99\nJob Category\nITFlex pays for all costs associated with the application, interview or offer process, a candidate will not be asked for any payment related to these costs.Flex does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services. Flex is an Equal Opportunity Employer and employment selection decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. Flex does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices based on: age, race, religion, color, sex, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, pregnancy status or any other status protected by law. Flex provides reasonable accommodation so that qualified applicants with a disability may participate in the selection process. Please advise us of any accommodations you request to express interest in a position by e-mailing: . Please state your request for assistance in your message. Only reasonable accommodation requests related to applying for a specific position within Flex will be reviewed at the e-mail address. Flex will contact you if it is determined that your background is a match to the required skills required for this position. 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