Global OT App Leader: Strategy & Rollouts

AG Solution Group; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

AG Solution seeks an Global OT Application Owner to steer strategy, roadmap and backlog for the assigned OT solution across global sites. The role governs templates, standards, and alignment with OT architecture, cybersecurity, data and integration standards.

You will lead multi-site rollouts, manage vendors and system integrators, and ensure lifecycle governance with formal acceptance across business and plant stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Technical degree in automation, industrial or process engineering, computer science or a related field.
• Hands-on experience in a manufacturing/production environment with OT systems (SCADA/PLC/MES/IIoT) and exposure to IT/data environments.
• Experience owning or functionally leading an industrial application: backlog, requirements, acceptance and lifecycle.
• Experience steering vendors and system integrators.
• Experience with multi-site deployments across plants and regions.
• Languages: English as a minimum; French an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the application strategy and multi-year roadmap.
• Translate business and plant requirements into clear application priorities.
• Decide what should be developed, configured, purchased, scaled, deferred or retired.
• Govern the application throughout its complete lifecycle.
• Own, structure and prioritize the application backlog.
• Establish clear requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure that delivered functionality meets the agreed requirements, coordinating formal acceptance with the relevant business and site stakeholders.
• Define and maintain global templates, libraries and application standards.
• Approve template changes, releases and deviations from the global standard.
• Govern application quality, compliance, scalability and maintainability.
• Ensure alignment with OT architecture, cybersecurity, data and integration standards.
• Govern rollout priorities, standards and application decisions across the application rollout portfolio.
• Negotiate rollout scope, priorities and commitments with site leadership and plant management.
• Coordinate application engineers, developers, vendors and system integrators.
• Challenge vendors and system integrators at technical, delivery and commercial levels.
• Govern vendor performance, roadmap commitments, service levels, licensing and costs.
• Monitor application adoption, operational performance, incidents and support trends.
• Escalate application risks, delivery gaps and vendor-performance issues.
• Maintain transparent communication with business, plant and technical stakeholders.
• Ensure the application complies with the client policies, standards and directives, including the mandatory criteria defined for its control zone.
• Enforce client\'s Unified Namespace requirements on the Syntact-delivered scope, including naming, structure and data-contract standards.
• Maintain the application profile and keep the inventory of the solutions in scope up to date.
• Ensure transparent reporting of application costs, risks, service information and benefits towards Group OT and the regional Digital OT/IT organization.
• Ensure that the Cloud Service Provider Check is completed and that Security clearance is obtained before any application contract is signed.

Skills

Application ownership

Backlog management

Requirements & acceptance

OT/IT & manufacturing data

Standards governance

Security & compliance aware

Vendor & SI steering

Multi-site rollout management

Commercial negotiation

Project management

Education

Technical degree in automation or related field

Hands-on OT/IT experience

Job description

AG Solution seeks an Global OT Application Owner to steer strategy, roadmap and backlog for the assigned OT solution across global sites. The role governs templates, standards, and alignment with OT architecture, cybersecurity, data and integration standards.

You will lead multi-site rollouts, manage vendors and system integrators, and ensure lifecycle governance with formal acceptance across business and plant stakeholders.