Senior Enterprise SCADA & OT Architect

Capgemini Engineering; Scotland; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Open access to digital learning

Employee networks: OutFront, CapAbilty

Disability Confident Employer

Job summary

Capgemini is seeking a SCADA Technology & Solutions Lead to shape the enterprise‑level direction for SCADA and IT/OT convergence within a consultancy and client advisory context. You will ensure SCADA and OT integration solutions are coherent, secure, scalable, and fit‑for‑purpose across multi‑site utilities.

You’ll lead architecture reviews, guide modernization efforts, and collaborate with OT, IT, cyber and digital teams to enable cloud‑ready, data‑driven operations across complex environments.

Qualifications

• Deep experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale SCADA architectures within water or utility environments.
• Strong IT/OT convergence knowledge and cross-functional leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise SCADA and OT reference architectures across centralised, distributed, and hybrid deployment models.
• Provide technical leadership across converged IT/OT domains with alignment of requirements, architectures, standards, roadmaps, and business case inputs.
• Define vendor-agnostic SCADA/OT platform criteria covering interoperability, lifecycle management, supportability, and future-proofing.
• Own and shape the Unified Namespace and metadata standards including asset models, naming conventions, signals, and events.
• Champion secure, scalable OT integration patterns between OT, enterprise, and cloud platforms.
• Chair architectural and technical design reviews with clear risk, assumptions, constraints, and decisions.

Skills

SCADA architecture

IT/OT convergence

Stakeholder leadership

Security clearance knowledge

Job description

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

Make it real - what does it mean for you?

• Open access to digital learning platforms

• Active employee networks promoting diversity, equity and inclusion like OutFront, CapAbility or Women@Capgemini

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.

Capgemini. Make it real.

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.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of over 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2025 global revenues of €22.5 billion.