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.