Ignition Sr. Developer

Tata Consultancy Services Limited; Pune District, Chennai, Bengaluru; Remote; INR 2,000,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services Limited, through its TCS IAE unit, seeks an Ignition Sr. Developer to lead architecture, design, and modernization of industrial automation solutions.

The role demands deep Ignition expertise and hands-on delivery across global manufacturing environments. You will mentor junior engineers, drive standards, review code, and collaborate with business, MES, and validation teams to ensure scalable, secure, and compliant implementations.

Qualifications

• Advanced hands-on Ignition SCADA architecture and production support.
• Experience designing tag structures, HMI screens, and templates.
• Ability to assess Ignition applications and lead modernization.
• Establishing development standards and code reviews.
• Proven testing strategy, deployment planning, and sign-off.
• Familiarity with URS, validation, traceability, and change control.

Responsibilities

• Own technical review of Ignition applications and define development approaches.
• Lead design and governance of tag architectures and HMI screens.
• Design and approve reusable assets like UDTs and templates.
• Lead code reviews, testing strategy, defect resolution, and deployment planning.
• Ensure compliance with URS, validation, traceability, change-control and cybersecurity.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to Ignition developers.
• Engage with business, manufacturing, MES, and validation stakeholders to clarify requirements.
• Support incident analysis, performance improvements, and platform upgrades.

Skills

Ignition SCADA

HMI design

UDT templates

Code reviews

Validation documentation

Stakeholder communication

Tools

OPC

Databases

Job description

About the Unit:

TCS IAE is redefining the future of industry by embedding intelligence across engineering, manufacturing, asset, and service value chains. Powered by AI, connected ecosystems, and autonomous operations, it transforms insights into actioncreating self-optimizing, resilient, and intelligent enterprises at scale. By seamlessly converging the physical and digital worlds, TCS IAE is enabling a new era of AI-first enterprises where systems continuously learn, adapt, and evolvedriving measurable outcomes and shaping how industries operate for the future.

Role Name :

Ignition Sr. Developer

Responsibilities:

1. 1 Own the technical review of Ignition applications and define solution approaches for new development, modernization, complex modifications, and production improvements.
2. 2 Lead the design and governance of tag architectures, HMI screens, templates, navigation patterns, reusable components, and global standards implementation.
3. 3 Design and approve reusable assets such as UDTs, HMI templates, faceplates, and common frameworks, ensuring scalability, maintainability, performance, and consistency.
4. 4 Lead code and design reviews, testing strategy, defect resolution, deployment planning, technical documentation, sign-off, and production-readiness activities.
5. 5 Ensure development and modification activities comply with applicable URS, validation, traceability, change-control, cybersecurity, formatting, and documentation expectations.
6. 6 Provide technical leadership and mentoring to Ignition developers, support effort estimation and planning, and proactively manage technical risks, dependencies, and escalations.
7. 7 Engage with business, manufacturing, automation, MES, infrastructure, and validation stakeholders to clarify requirements and drive timely technical decisions.
8. 8 Support incident analysis, root-cause identification, performance improvement, platform upgrades, and continuous improvement of Ignition engineering practices.

Must Have Skills:

• Advanced hands-on expertise in Ignition SCADA architecture, development, configuration, troubleshooting, and production support.
• Strong experience designing and governing tag structures, HMI screens, reusable objects, templates, UDTs, faceplates, navigation frameworks, alarming, and standard application assets.
• Ability to independently assess existing Ignition applications, identify technical gaps, define improvement approaches, and lead complex enhancements or modernization activities.
• Experience establishing and enforcing development standards, conducting code and design reviews, and ensuring scalability, maintainability, performance, and reuse.
• Strong experience with testing strategy, defect resolution, deployment planning, release readiness, documentation, and technical sign-off.
• Working knowledge of URS, validation-oriented documentation, traceability, change control, and compliance expectations in standards-driven environments.
• Ability to provide technical direction, mentor developers, estimate work, manage technical risks and dependencies, and drive issues to closure.
• Strong stakeholder communication skills with the ability to translate business and manufacturing requirements into robust Ignition solutions.

Good to have Skills:

• Exposure to shopfloor and manufacturing applications in multi-site or global environments.
• Understanding of Ignition integrations with PLCs, OPC, databases, historians, MES, ERP, and related industrial systems, where applicable.
• Experience supporting high-availability, performance optimization, cybersecurity, disaster recovery, and regulated or validated environments.
• Ignition certification or experience leading platform upgrades, migrations, and reusable global template rollouts.
• Strong collaboration, documentation, governance, and issue-tracking discipline.

Location:

Pan India

Experience Range:

8+ years