Senior OT Solutions Architect — Secure ICS & IT/OT Convergence

Sword Group; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Flexible working

Pension & private health

Job summary

Sword is seeking an experienced OT Solutions Architect to design secure, scalable Operational Technology solutions for critical national infrastructure programmes in the UK. You will engage with business stakeholders, lead architecture across multiple OT projects and ensure alignment with enterprise standards.

Working within Sword's Industrial Automation & Control Systems practice, you will balance strategic roadmaps with practical delivery, guiding IT/OT convergence, security, and resilience

Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering solution architecture in OT or Industrial Control environments.
• Strong knowledge of OT including SCADA, control systems, and industrial networking.
• Experience designing secure, resilient OT solutions across multiple domains.
• Experience with IT/OT convergence and hybrid architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end solution architecture across multiple OT programmes and projects.
• Translate stakeholder requirements into secure, scalable technical solutions.
• Design OT architectures covering infrastructure, networking, and IT/OT integration.
• Produce architecture diagrams and documentation for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture principles and standards.
• Lead design reviews and provide architectural guidance during delivery.
• Evaluate technologies and supplier proposals to support programme objectives.
• Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure and cyber security teams during implementation.
• Contribute to architecture governance and solution patterns across the IACS practice.
• Balance strategic roadmaps with immediate business priorities.

Skills

Solution architecture

Stakeholder engagement

Architecture governance

Technical design

Azure

AWS

IT/OT convergence

OT/ICS knowledge

Tools

Azure

AWS

Bizzdesign

Job description

Sword is seeking an experienced OT Solutions Architect to design secure, scalable Operational Technology solutions for critical national infrastructure programmes in the UK. You will engage with business stakeholders, lead architecture across multiple OT projects and ensure alignment with enterprise standards.

Working within Sword's Industrial Automation & Control Systems practice, you will balance strategic roadmaps with practical delivery, guiding IT/OT convergence, security, and resilience