Technical Architect - Networking

Description

• Leadership: Team coordination, mentoring, and conflict resolution in industrial environments.
• Prepare and maintain project documentation, including SOW, as-built diagrams, SOPs, and training materials.
• Balance workloads across internal technical teams.
• Manage the complete project lifecycle - planning, execution, monitoring, and closure.
• Drive project delivery within scope, time, and budget while managing risks and escalations.
• Ensure compliance with SLAs and quality standards.
• Handle site execution challenges (downtime scheduling, safety compliance, vendor coordination).
• Act as the primary customer interface, ensuring high satisfaction and smooth handovers.
• Team Leadership: Lead engineers and field technicians, guide them through complex technical deployments.
• Mentoring & Training: Help less-experienced engineers grow in OT, networking, and project management.
• Engage with customers during the discovery phase: requirement gathering, solution mapping, technical discussions.
• Ensure seamless integration of industrial data handling, network connectivity, applications, and OT security solutions.
• Conflict Resolution: Handle escalations between customers, internal teams, and vendors.
• Manage partner resources (e.g., Siemens/Cisco support engineers).
• Solution Mapping: Match customer needs with Siemens/Cisco/Teltonika/Nozomi/HPE Aruba/Moxa offerings.
• Requirement Analysis: Extract technical & business requirements through engagements and site visits.
• Consultative Selling Support: Work with sales/pre-sales teams to engage customers during solution discovery.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams: internal engineers, OEM partners, subcontractors.
• Sign-off, feedback collection, success story documentation.
• Monitor progress using tools (MS Project, Jira, Primavera).
• Stakeholder Management: Build trust with plant managers, IT and OT heads, OT engineers, and CXOs.
• Support account growth through change requests, add-ons.
• Lead cross-functional teams, internal engineers, and external vendors (Siemens, Cisco, Teltonika, Nozomi Networks, HPE Aruba, Moxa, etc.).

Requirements

• Cybersecurity: IEC 62443 awareness, CISSP, or OT security training.
• Risk analysis and mitigation planning (especially around production downtime in industrial environments).
• Resilience: Ability to manage stress and high-pressure situations, especially during production cutovers.
• 6–8 years of relevant experience with at least:
• Understanding of Industrial Automation systems (PLC, SCADA, MES, DCS).
• Cloud & Edge: Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure IoT, AWS IoT, Siemens MindSphere) and edge computing.
• Industrial Connectivity & Networking: Siemens Industrial Ethernet, Cisco Industrial switches/routers, Teltonika, Moxa devices.
• Integration Expertise: Hands-on exposure to integrating industrial applications (MES, ERP, Data Lakes, IoT platforms).
• 6–8 years of experience, with minimum 3–4 years in industrial field execution and 2–3 years in project management.
• Soft Skills & Behavioral Traits
• People & Leadership Skills
• Proven track record of executing projects in Pharma, Electronics, Automotive, or F&B sectors.
• 2–3 years of project management experience, preferably leading multi-vendor industrial projects.
• Presentation & Communication: Ability to simplify technical concepts for both engineers and business stakeholders.
• Customer Engagement: Consultative approach with excellent communication & presentation skills.
• Knowledge of IT-OT convergence, especially how industrial networks, applications, and security interplay.
• Certifications (preferred, not mandatory)
• Project charters, SOW (Scope of Work), effort estimation, resource planning.
• Adaptability: Ability to work in diverse industrial setups, adjusting to site constraints.
• Strong problem-solving mindset (critical in industrial ecosystems where downtime = high losses).
• OT Security: Experience with Nozomi Networks or equivalent OT monitoring/security platforms.
• Strong familiarity with Pharmaceutical, Electronics Manufacturing, Automotive, F&B industries and their operational environments.
• Project Management: PMP, PRINCE2, Agile (Scrum Master, SAFe).
• Certifications (Preferred): PMP/PRINCE2/Agile, Cisco CCNP/CCIE, OT Security (IEC 62443 awareness).
• Excellent written and verbal communication (for proposals, reports, and presentations).
• Industrial Data Handling: Working knowledge of protocols like OPC-UA, MQTT, Modbus TCP/IP, Profinet, etc.
• OT security platforms (Nozomi Networks or equivalent).
• Integration with MES, ERP, SCADA, IoT platforms (OPC-UA, MQTT, Profinet, Modbus, etc.).
• Project Management: Strong planning, scheduling, resource, and vendor management.
• Cultural Awareness: Adapt to customer environments across pharma, automotive, and other industries.
• 3–4 years of hands-on technical fieldwork in industrial connectivity, OT systems, or security.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Electronics, Electrical, Instrumentation, IT, or related fields).
• Documentation (as-built diagrams, configuration backups, SOPs).
• Customer Engagement & Opportunity Discovery Skills
• Industrial networking (Siemens, Cisco, Moxa, Teltonika).
• Networking & Security: Cisco CCNP/CCIE, HPE Aruba certifications.
• Project Management Skills (End-to-End Lifecycle)
• Industrial Ecosystem Knowledge

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance