IT/OT Solution Architect - Toa Payoh

Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for technical consulting and system architecture of integrated OT-IT solutions for customers during the whole solution lifetime with the primary focus on pre-sales, design, evolution and expansion phases:

• Assess customers’ OT-IT landscape, shape solution proposals, and design high-level concepts, pilots, or demos that validate feasibility and value in pre-sales stage in collaboration with sales and manufacturing consulting teams.
• Design scalable OT-IT solution architectures aligned to Advanced Solutions reference models.
• Define architecture blueprints that integrate Omron platforms and Customer platforms (existing/upcoming).
• Develop system specifications, interface maps, and integration standards across OT and IT layers.
• Support site-level deployment, data acquisition strategies, and real-time monitoring implementations.
• Guide cross-functional teams during delivery, ensuring standardization, scalability, and maintainability.
• Validate deployed systems during stabilization to ensure architecture assumptions (e.g. latency, security, scalability) hold in production.
• Act as an expert during operations, expansion, and potential migration, ensuring solution architecture remains aligned with evolving business and compliance needs.
• Work with cybersecurity experts to ensure secure deployment of OT-IT systems per industry best practices compliance to IEC 62443 / NIS2 legislation.
• Professional documentation of system diagrams, integration specs, SOPs, functional design documents.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in engineering
• Certified OPC Professional (COPC)/ Ignition Core Certification/ ISA/IEC 62443 Cybersecurity Certificates/ Microsoft Certified: Azure IoT Developer/ TOGAF 9 Certification
• 8+ years of experience as a system architect in a three-layer architecture that integrates IT, OT and EDGE (SCADA, PLCs, MES, and IIoT)
• 3–5 years of direct experience in IT/OT convergence projects within discrete manufacturing sectors (Automotive, Food, Consumer Packaged Goods, Medical/Pharma)
• Strong background integrating plant floor systems with enterprise IT platforms (ERP, Cloud,Analytics)
• Security: Knowledge of OT Security architecture, Zoning and segmentation.
• Data enablement: Working knowledge of data pipelines, historians, and edge analytics.
• Experience with Lean / TPM / 4M-focused architectures is a major advantage
• Experience with IT Data solutions is an advantage
• Good Communication & Presentation skills with an eye for details.
• Strong desire to learn continuously
• Self-motivated and challenging
• Team player with strong interpersonal skills, and able to work independently
• Strong problem-solving mentality skill