Senior IIoT & SCADA Architect

Catapult Federal Services

Sacramento (CA)

Remote

USD 110,000 - 152,000

Part time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Catapult Federal Services is looking for a Sr SCADA Architect to own the global design and acceleration of the Ignition platform across data centers. The role focuses on architecture, standards, enablement, and organizational acceleration with minimal hands-on work.

You will partner with management and engineering to scale deployments from monthly to weekly pace, driving reusable standards and fast, reliable implementations across a distributed environment.

Qualifications

Significant SCADA / OT experience across multiple sites and roles.

Responsibilities

Drive global Ignition / SCADA / IoT architecture to achieve maximum rollout velocity with high quality and cost efficiency.
Partner with program management and engineering to scale deployments without major issues.
Identify initiatives to shorten timelines, such as reusable images and streamlined SOPs.
Review and improve existing standards to reduce waste across ~40 Ignition installations.
Set architectural direction enabling the team to operate independently at higher volume.
Maintain current skills with hands-on work while focusing on design and enablement.

Skills

SCADA/OT experience

Ignition Architecture

Global rollout experience

Architecture ownership

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Ignition (Inductive Automation)

Job description

About Our Client

Our client operates one of the largest global data center platforms in the world, spanning more than 20 countries and regions across the Americas, Asia Pacific, EMEA, and India. Recognized as a leader by top networking and data center analysts, the company operates as a neutral provider offering access to multiple cloud providers, a wide range of internet exchanges, and telecommunications network providers, including its own IPv6-compliant Tier 1 global IP network. Clients benefit from tailored infrastructure and consistent best practices in design and operations across a portfolio of reliable, scalable, and customizable data centers, supporting next-generation technologies in computing at scale, virtualization, data migration, and cloud and B2B private connectivity worldwide.

Sacramento, CA Contract Sep 22, 2026

Sr SCADA Architect

Location: Remote

Employment Type: 18-month contract

About Our Client

Job Description

Our client is seeking a SCADA / Ignition Architect to own the global design and acceleration of its Ignition platform and related OT solutions across its data centers. This is a pure architecture role focused on maximum velocity, highest quality, and lowest cost, rather than day-to-day implementation. Hands-on keyboard time should trend toward zero, with the primary focus on design, standards, enablement, and organizational acceleration.

The Architect will partner closely with program management and engineering teams, continuously improving processes, standards, and partner utilization so that deployments scale without major production issues, snags, or rework. This role exists to help the organization move from roughly one Ignition rollout per month toward a pace of one per week or better, while eliminating waste in existing standards, best practices, and SOPs across the current install base of roughly 40 Ignition systems.

Success in this role is measured by how quickly the organization can roll out Ignition solutions globally without production issues or major setbacks, the inventiveness of ideas that compress timelines (such as gold images that cut infrastructure delivery time, or restructured partner accountability that offloads more work against existing SLAs), and the ability to keep personal hands-on time near zero while enabling the broader engineering team to execute independently and at higher volume.

Duties And Responsibilities

Drive global Ignition / SCADA / IoT architecture to achieve maximum rollout velocity with high quality and cost efficiency.
Partner with the program manager and engineering team to own the process so deployments scale without major production issues, snags, or rework.
Identify and lead initiatives that shorten timelines, such as gold images for Ignition that cut infrastructure delivery time, pushing more work to Ignition partners against existing SLAs, and simplifying multi-step SOPs.
Review and improve existing standards, best practices, and SOPs across the current ~40 Ignition installs, eliminating waste and collapsing steps to raise overall efficiency.
Set the architectural direction that enables the engineering team to execute independently and at higher volume, targeting a trajectory from roughly one rollout per month toward one per week or better.
Keep skills current with selective hands-on work, while keeping the primary focus on design, enablement, and organizational acceleration rather than implementation.

Required Experience/Skills

Significant SCADA / OT experience (ideal profile: approximately 10 years overall, including several years in an architecture capacity).
Global Ignition (Inductive Automation) experience.
Ability to operate at an architecture level, including process ownership, standards development, partner leverage, and cost/quality/velocity trade-offs.
Strong track record of driving global or multi-site solutions and continuous improvement.
Excellent collaboration skills with program managers, engineers, infrastructure teams, and external partners.

Nice-to-Haves

Data center, BMS, EPMS, and broader IoT experience.
Prior experience leading or participating in a global Ignition rollout.
Experience simplifying complex multi-step processes and establishing reusable standards and images.

Pay & Benefits Summary

$80/hr W2

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