Senior OT/SCADA Architect – IT/OT Convergence Lead

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

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.