Smart Factory Data Engineer - IIoT & Cloud Architect

Qualitrol; Village of Fairport (NY); On-site; USD 83,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualitrol, located in Fairport, NY, seeks a Smart Factory Data Engineer to advance our manufacturing modernization and digital transformation. You will connect production equipment, MES, and quality systems to a unified data platform, bridging plant floors with cloud services.

You will design scalable data pipelines, implement edge and hybrid-cloud architectures on Azure and AWS, and build dashboards to monitor OEE, throughput, downtime, and quality across facilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related technical field.
• 5+ years designing and implementing data engineering solutions in manufacturing/Industrial IoT/Industry 4.0 environments.
• Hands-on experience with Azure Data Factory, Databricks, IoT Hub, Synapse/Fabric and AWS IoT Core, Kinesis, Glue, Redshift, S3 or similar technologies.
• Experience integrating factory-floor systems including PLCs, SCADA, sensors, and edge platforms.
• Knowledge of industrial protocols (OPC-UA, MQTT, Modbus, Ethernet/IP).
• Experience building real-time or streaming data architectures and dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain industrial data acquisition solutions connecting equipment, sensors, PLCs, MES, and quality systems.
• Build scalable data pipelines to collect, process, transform, and deliver production data.
• Develop real-time or near-real-time data architectures for operational visibility and rapid decisions.
• Create dashboards providing insight into production performance, quality, throughput, downtime, and OEE.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Databricks

IoT Hub

Synapse/Fabric

AWS IoT Core

Kinesis

Glue

Redshift

S3

OPC-UA

MQTT

Modbus

Job description

Qualitrol, located in Fairport, NY, seeks a Smart Factory Data Engineer to advance our manufacturing modernization and digital transformation. You will connect production equipment, MES, and quality systems to a unified data platform, bridging plant floors with cloud services.

You will design scalable data pipelines, implement edge and hybrid-cloud architectures on Azure and AWS, and build dashboards to monitor OEE, throughput, downtime, and quality across facilities.