Systems Architect - Automated Manufacturing Systems

ATS Corporation; Cambridge; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join ATS Corporation as a Systems Architect, where you will define the architecture of advanced automated manufacturing systems. This strategic role involves collaboration with customers to shape high-level concepts and requirements, ensuring optimal integration of technology and operations. With over 7 years of experience in systems architecture, your insights will guide the future of intelligent manufacturing. Enjoy a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and an environment that fosters continuous improvement and innovation.

Benefits

Comprehensive health and dental benefits

Competitive starting salaries

Employee bonus programs

RSP matching

Employee Share Purchase Program

Educational reimbursement program

Employee referral bonuses

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in systems architecture, automation strategy, or design of complex systems required.
• Familiarity with smart factory frameworks like Industry 4.0 preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead conceptual system architecture for advanced manufacturing platforms.
• Develop clear system requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Conduct simulation and modeling for architectural options.

Skills

Systems engineering principles

Simulation tools

Data and integration protocols

Strategic thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Systems, Industrial, Mechanical, Software, or Electrical Engineering

Master’s or MBA

Tools

Microsoft 365 suite

Job description

Systems Architect - Automated Manufacturing Systems

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Join our globally growing team at ATS Industrial Automation where we create complex automation solutions at the highest level that sustainably impact lives around the world.

At ATS, a publicly traded global company with a proud 40-year history, we help drive the future with our factory-wide automation solutions. At ATS Industrial Automation, what we do matters - both to our customers and to their customers. With 1000 skilled employees around the world, we design, build and service mission-critical automated assembly and test solutions for mobility, nuclear and specialty automation. Our customers are leaders in their industries and rely on us to deliver what we promise - on time and on budget. Combined with our broad product portfolio, financial strength and global presence, we provide our customers with the best automation solutions wherever and whenever they need them.

Major Duties

We are seeking a Systems Architect to join our Pre-Automation Services Team, where you will play a critical role collaborating with our customers to shape the front-end architecture of advanced automated manufacturing systems. This is a conceptual and pre-design role that defines the digital and physical frameworks guiding all downstream engineering, controls, and software activities.

Your core mission is to determine what should be built and how it should function, using systems thinking, simulation, and data-driven decision making to architect solutions that are scalable, integrated, and future-ready. This is not a detailed design, controls, or implementation role. This is a strategic design role at the intersection of systems engineering, industrial engineering, and advanced automation, focused on upstream system architecture, risk reduction, and requirements development.

You will work directly with customers and internal teams to define high-level concepts, assess technical feasibility, and develop architectural content that serve as the blueprint for future automation programs.

Specific Responsibilities

• Lead the conceptual system architecture of advanced manufacturing platforms, integrating automation, digital systems, data, physical equipment, and operations in close collaboration with customers
• Define system boundaries, material and data flows, interfaces, and functional blocks based on customer goals and future state use cases, and that serve as the foundation for follow-on detailed engineering design
• Develop clear, actionable system requirements and acceptance criteria that are traceable to customer needs, business goals, and regulatory requirements
• Conduct simulation, modeling, and studies to explore architectural options, capacity strategies, and system performance scenarios
• Leverage data-driven methods to validate design assumptions, identify risks, and optimize architectural outcomes before handoff to design teams
• Proactively identify and mitigate early-stage product, process, design, integration, performance, and technology risks through proof-of-concept work or conceptual validation
• Engage stakeholders, including customers and internal teams, to understand use cases, digital maturity, and future systems needs
• Collaborate with engineering, controls, IT, operations, and sales to ensure architecture aligns with customer’s long-term strategic goals and execution capabilities
• Produce architectural deliverables, including system user requirements documents (URSs), functional design specification documents (FRSs), functional block diagrams, and early risk registers
• Update and evolve architectural requirements and assumptions as system understanding grows and scope evolves
• Contribute to enterprise-wide frameworks for smart manufacturing, digital enablement, and Information Technology (IT) / Operational Technology (OT) integration

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems, Industrial, Mechanical, Software, or Electrical Engineering or equivalent. Master’s or MBA is an asset.
• 7+ years of experience in systems architecture, automation strategy, or conceptual design of complex manufacturing systems
• Knowledge of :
• Systems engineering principles (requirements development, interface management, V-model, risk analysis and mitigation
• Simulation tools (Plant Simulation, or equivalent)
• Data and integration protocols (OPC, Ethernet / IP, etc.)
• Vertical integration layers above core automation systems (MES, SCADA, ERP, cloud / edge platforms, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, etc.)
• Smart factory frameworks (Industry 4.0, Digital Twin concepts, etc.)
• Comfortable using Microsoft 365 suite of tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project)
• Strategic, systems-level thinker with the ability to distill complexity into clarity
• Confident communicator who can align technical and non-technical stakeholders

Why should you join ATS Industrial Automation?

• Be a part of an engaged, empowered and innovative global workforce
• We offer a robust total rewards package- Competitive starting salaries, comprehensive health and dental benefits, overtime pay, employee bonus, RSP matching, Employee Share Purchase Program
• We provide awesome work perks such as treat days, gourmet coffee and beverages, subsidized breakfast and lunches in our cafeteria, employee referral bonuses and lots more.
• We are intentional about your professional growth and development through internal career opportunities and our educational reimbursement program.

Define the future of digitally enabled intelligent manufacturing systems.Be the architectural voice shaping projects before design begins , where impact is highest.Collaborate with forward-thinking teams across automation, digital, and engineering domains.Enjoy a culture rich with innovation, curiosity, and continuous improvement.

ATS is in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA), 2005 and will, upon request, assist those who may require specific accommodations due to a personal disability. We would ask that those who require assistance to notify our offices as soon as possible if accommodation is necessary

If you're excited about this role, but do not meet all the qualifications listed above, you are still encouraged to apply.

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