Senior OT Engineer

Capgemini Engineering; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini Engineering is seeking a SCADA Technology & Solutions Lead to direct enterprise SCADA and IT/OT convergence strategies within a consultancy and client advisory context. You will ensure secure, scalable, and cloud-ready SCADA/OT integration across multi-site utilities.

You will shape architectures, drive modernization, and lead cross-functional teams spanning operations, engineering, digital, network and cyber security to deliver resilient OT–IT solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale SCADA architectures within water or utility environments.
• Strong IT/OT convergence expertise and stakeholder leadership across multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience across mixed-vendor and legacy estates, shaping modernisation and migration strategies.
• Ability to engage confidently with operational, engineering, digital, network, and cyber teams.

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.

Skills

SCADA architecture

IT/OT convergence

Stakeholder leadership

Vendor-agnostic platform

Cloud integration

Job description

SCADA Technology & Solutions Lead

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.

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

Requirements

• All roles will require a level of security clearance: BPSS, Security Clearance or Developed Vetting.
• Minimum essential criteria for the role and a disability declaration will be considered for interview allocation.

EEO Statement

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.