SCADA Technology & Solutions Lead

Capgemini Engineering; Belfast; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Open access to digital learning platforms

Active employee networks promoting diversity, equity and inclusion

Job summary

Capgemini Engineering is looking for a SCADA Technology & Solutions Lead in Belfast, UK. This role involves leading the development of enterprise-scale SCADA architectures and ensuring effective integration of OT and IT systems. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of SCADA systems and relevant technical leadership experience.

You'll work with multidisciplinary teams to define future-ready reference architectures and drive modernisation across utility environments. Benefits include access to digital learning platforms and active employee networks promoting diversity.

Qualifications

• Deep experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale SCADA architectures within water or utility environments.
• Strong understanding of OT systems and practical IT/OT convergence.
• Experience working across complex, mixed-vendor and legacy estates.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise SCADA and OT platform option assessments.
• Provide technical leadership across converged IT/OT domains.
• Define and govern vendor-agnostic SCADA and OT platform selection criteria.
• Own and shape the Unified Namespace and standardisation approach.
• Champion modern OT integration patterns for secure data flows.
• Chair architectural and technical design reviews.

Skills

Enterprise SCADA architecture design

IT/OT convergence expertise

Stakeholder leadership

Technical leadership

Job description

Role

The SCADA Technology & Solutions Lead owns the enterprise‑level direction for SCADA and IT/OT convergence within a consultancy and client advisory context. The role ensures that SCADA and OT integration solutions are technically coherent, secure, scalable, and operationally fit‑for‑purpose, aligned with enterprise digital transformation strategies, OT operating models, IT architecture, data, network, and cybersecurity policies. It establishes the architectural and design foundations required to enable sustainable OT‑to‑IT integration and cloud‑ready, data‑driven operational capabilities across multi‑site utility environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise SCADA and OT platform option assessments, defining future‑ready reference architectures across centralised, distributed, and hybrid deployment models.
• Provide technical leadership across converged IT/OT domains, assuring alignment of requirements, architectures, standards, roadmaps, and business case inputs.
• Define and govern vendor‑agnostic SCADA and OT platform selection criteria, covering interoperability, lifecycle management, supportability, and future‑proofing.
• Own and shape the Unified Namespace and standardisation approach, including asset models, naming conventions, signals, events, and metadata.
• Champion modern OT integration patterns, enabling secure, scalable and event‑driven data flows between OT, enterprise, and cloud platforms.
• Chair architectural and technical design reviews, managing key risks, assumptions, constraints, and decisions with clear auditability.

Your Profile

You’ll bring deep experience designing and delivering enterprise‑scale SCADA architectures within water or utility environments, with a strong understanding of OT systems and practical IT/OT convergence. You’re comfortable working across complex, mixed‑vendor and legacy estates, shaping modernisation and migration strategies while providing clear technical leadership and engaging confidently across operational, engineering, digital, network, and cyber teams.

Key Strengths

• Enterprise SCADA architecture design across legacy and modern OT environments
• Strong IT/OT convergence expertise and stakeholder leadership across multidisciplinary teams

Benefits

• Open access to digital learning platforms
• Active employee networks promoting diversity, equity and inclusion like OutFront, CapAbility or Women@Capgemini

Inclusive Recruitment

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who declare they have a disability and meet the minimum essential criteria for the role. Please opt in during the application process.

Need to Know

• All roles will require a level of security clearance; BPSS OR Security Clearance OR Developed Vetting.
• You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini building an inclusive future is part of everyday life and will be part of your working reality. We have built a representative and welcoming environment, for everyone.