Senior System Engineer

Candidtalent; Louisiana; On-site; USD 108,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with match

Profit sharing

Generous PTO and parental leave

Relocation support

Job summary

Candidtalent is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to lead the architecture of Manufacturing Intelligence solutions in North Louisiana. You will shape how Ignition integrates with historians, MES, ERP and PLCs, set enterprise standards and govern REST APIs, OPC UA and MQTT, and guide data architecture for analytics and reporting.

You will establish reusable patterns, define quality standards, and mentor junior architects while collaborating with customer IT and cybersecurity teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in industrial automation, controls or SCADA with architecture leadership across multiple projects.
• Deep expertise in enterprise integration strategies, data architecture and governance.
• Ignition, SQL Server or PostgreSQL, and integration technologies (OPC UA, MQTT, REST APIs).
• Ability to lead design reviews, influence teams, maintain architectural consistency and mentor staff.
• A bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture of Manufacturing Intelligence solutions across projects.
• Define scalable, secure, maintainable technical designs and integration standards.
• Guide data architecture, databases and enterprise integration strategies.
• Establish reusable architecture patterns and quality standards (CI/CD, testing, deployment).
• Collaborate with customer IT, engineering and cybersecurity teams; present architecture reviews.
• Mentor Architects I and senior engineers; contribute to hiring and workforce planning.

Skills

Ignition

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

OPC UA

MQTT

REST APIs

Enterprise integration

Data architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Location: North Louisiana office preferred, relocation is available

Salary: $120,000 + depending on experience, plus a year-end profit share.

Schedule: Full-time, permanent, with travel to client sites.

If you have a strong background in Ignition, industrial data architecture and system integration, this is an opportunity to lead Manufacturing Intelligence projects at a specialist integrator.

The company is a vendor-independent automation and manufacturing intelligence integrator, working with industrial clients since the mid-1990s. They are an Inductive Automation Premier Integrator, the platform’s top partner tier, and have developed and sell their own manufacturing execution system (MES), built natively on Ignition.

They are expanding their Manufacturing Intelligence team and looking for a Systems Engineerto take ownership of architecture across multiple projects. This is a senior technical leadership position focused on defining how solutions are designed, integrated and governed, rather than simply building applications to an existing specification.

What you'll do

You will lead the architecture of Manufacturing Intelligence solutions, translating business and functional requirements into scalable, secure and maintainable technical designs.

That means defining how Ignition integrates with historians, MES, ERP systems and the PLCs underneath, establishing enterprise integration and data architecture standards, and governing technologies such as REST APIs, OPC UA and MQTT.

You will guide database architecture and information management to support analytics and reporting, while reviewing designs across projects to ensure consistency and long-term maintainability.

Beyond individual projects, you will establish reusable architecture patterns, define technical quality standards and guide expectations around CI/CD, automated testing and deployment practices. You will work directly with customer IT, engineering and cybersecurity teams, present recommendations during architecture reviews, and act as a trusted technical advisor.

You will also mentor Architects I and specialist engineers, help develop technical best practices across the team, and contribute to hiring and workforce planning.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of experience in industrial automation, controls or SCADA, with a proven track record of leading architecture across multiple projects.
• Strong knowledge of Deep expertise in enterprise integration strategies, data architecture and governance, with experience establishing standards and technical best practices rather than simply working within them.
• Ignition, SQL Server or PostgreSQL, and industrial integration technologies such as OPC UA, MQTT and REST APIs will be relevant.
• Ability to lead technical design reviews, influence teams across disciplines, maintain architectural consistency and mentor other architects and senior technical staff.
• A bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience is expected.

Reasons engineers join include:

• Architecture ownership: Define standards and reusable patterns across multiple projects, rather than focusing on a single implementation.
• Ignition-led work: Join an Inductive Automation Premier Integrator developing solutions around its own MES platform.
• Technical influence: Work directly with customers and internal teams on architecture, integration and cybersecurity decisions.
• A year-end profit share: Additional earning potential on top of base salary.
• Broad technical exposure: Work across industrial data, MES, historians, databases, cloud technologies and enterprise integration.
• Benefits and support: 401(k) with match, financial wellness support, generous PTO and parental leave.
• Direct hiring process: A short process with direct access to the hiring manager.

The working setup

The team would prefer someone based out of its north Louisiana office, located on a university campus in a relatively low-cost college town about an hour from a regional airport. Relocation support is available.