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.

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.