Lingaro

Smart Factory Architect

Lingaro

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: India

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Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudCyber SecurityDNSFirewallsIoTVault

About the role

  • Act as the technical expert for Smart Factory / Edge architectures in a multi-site, multi-stakeholder environment.
  • Review architectural designs (edge, network, cloud, security, data models) and confirm the feasibility of implementation plans.
  • Align with Cloud Engineers and OT consultants to ensure ISA-95 compliant IT/OT integration and interoperability across layers (L0–L4/5).
  • Validate that all required services are deployed and configured correctly (cloud resources, edge runtime, connectivity, identity, monitoring).
  • Define and validate edge-to-cloud data flow requirements, including:
  • Tag list/signals, payload schemas/formats, naming conventions
  • Frequency, buffering, store-and-forward, latency/availability targets
  • Data quality rules (units, timestamps, limits, gaps, duplicates)
  • Create logical & conceptual models for contextualization
  • Validate conceptual and logical modelling of the factory asset hierarchy (site/area/line/cell/equipment/component) and mapping to data streams.
  • Support the implementation of industrial connectivity patterns (e.g., OPC UA, MQTT, Modbus, REST) and integration with OT data sources (historians, SCADA, MES, CMMS, LIMS when relevant).
  • Drive architecture decisions for ingestion, storage, and analytics using services such as:
  • Azure (IoT Hub, Event Hubs, Functions, AKS, Data Lake, Databricks/Synapse, Monitor, Key Vault, Private Link)
  • AWS (IoT Core, Kinesis, Lambda, EKS, S3, Glue, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, Greengrass)
  • Snowflake (ingestion patterns, data modeling, governance, performance considerations)
  • Ensure observability is in place: logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and operational runbooks.
  • Coordinate with site IT/networking to ensure:
  • Connectivity readiness (routing, DNS, proxy, certificates)
  • Firewall rules, ports, and secure connectivity patterns (VPN/ExpressRoute/Direct Connect where applicable)
  • Ensure alignment with factory cybersecurity and Zero Trust principles, including segmentation, least privilege, secure remote access, and auditability.
  • Own the go-live checklist and drive issue resolution during integration testing and cutover.
  • Support test data ingestion and end-to-end validation, from OT signal extraction through cloud ingestion, storage, and consumption.
  • Validate performance and reliability requirements (throughput, latency, resilience, recovery) and ensure operational handover readiness.
  • Contribute to Digital Twin concepts built on IT/OT convergence (asset hierarchy + telemetry + context).
  • Work hands-on with OT / Smart Factory platforms such as AVEVA, Sight Machine, and/or similar (e.g., Ignition, OSIsoft/PI, Tulip, PTC ThingWorx, depending on environment).

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in industrial IT/OT, smart factory, or manufacturing digitalization roles, with architect-level ownership of designs and deployments.
  • Proven hands-on delivery experience implementing edge-to-cloud integration in real factory environments.
  • Strong understanding of:
  • ISA-95 (integration patterns and manufacturing system layers)
  • Industrial architectures (OT network segmentation, DMZ patterns, edge gateways)
  • Core OT systems (PLC/SCADA/DCS, historian, MES) and data acquisition methods
  • Cloud architecture experience on Azure and/or AWS (plus familiarity with Snowflake, databricks and modern data platforms).
  • Solid fundamentals in networking (firewalls, VLANs, routing, certificates, proxies) and troubleshooting in restricted environments.
  • knowledge of identity and access management (Azure AD/RBAC/Managed Identities or AWS IAM, secrets, key management).
  • Excellent communication skills, able to lead technical conversations with security, IT, OT, and business stakeholders globally.
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Flexible work hours
  • Paid time off
  • Remote work options
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Hard Skills & Tools
edge architecturescloud architecturedata modelingdata quality rulesnetworkingidentity and access managementindustrial connectivity patternsobservabilitydigital twin conceptsintegration testing
Soft Skills
communication skillsleadershipproblem-solvingcollaborationstakeholder management