Senior Industrial Data Architect & Developer

Tasks & Duties

·       Design, build, and maintain the architecture of governed industrial data platforms.

·       Design, build, and maintain an industrial MES software architecture using C#, Winforms, SQL and API interfaces.

·       Define integration standards, canonical data models, versioned interface contracts, and messaging architecture.

·       Implement event-driven data flows, industrial connectivity pipelines, and storage strategies for operational and time-series data.

·       Develop across the full production software stack, with particular focus on areas requiring architectural depth.

·       Provide third-level support for all products under scope, including complex incident investigation, root-cause analysis, and delivery of durable corrective actions.

·       Translate operational requirements from business and production stakeholders into explicit, versioned, and maintainable technical structures.

Challenges

·       Designing systems that remain operationally reliable, evolvable, and maintainable over the long term.

·       Bridging the gap between operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) environments.

·       Enforcing technical governance in environments where implicit conventions have historically replaced structure.

·       Balancing architectural rigor with pragmatic, incremental delivery.

Network / Relations

·       Reports to direct Manager.

·       Group Engineering.

·       Collaborates with internal MES and third-party integration teams.

·       Works closely with production managers, operations stakeholders, and application teams.

·       Interfaces with infrastructure and IT teams.

Education

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Industrial Automation, or a related technical discipline..

Professional Experience

• 7+ years in software development, industrial systems, or data platform engineering.
• Proven track record designing platforms or integration systems in production environments.
• Experience in manufacturing, industrial software, MES, IIoT, or related operational environments.     
• Experience providing third-level or application support, including incident ownership and root-cause resolution.

Expertise

• System architecture and long-term technical design.
• Event-driven architectures and industrial integration patterns.
• Data governance, schema management, and interface contract design.
• SQL and relational data modeling.
• Python and/or C# development.
• API design and versioning.
• Git-based workflows and documentation practices.
• Incident analysis, production troubleshooting, and corrective engineering.
• Time-series databases and operational data storage.
• MQTT or industrial messaging protocols.
• OPC-UA or industrial connectivity standards.
• GitOps and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Observability tooling and operational dashboards.

Personality

• Highly mature, technically grounded, and architecturally rigorous.
• Calm and structured under pressure, with a pragmatic and delivery-focused mindset.
• Strong sense of ownership, follow-through, and long-term thinking.
• Able to make clear decisions in evolving environments with incomplete information.
• Collaborative and open.

Languages

• Fluent English (Witten & oral)
• Fluent local language (Written & oral)
• Other languages

Other

• Strong written communication skills; remote and international collaboration is part of the role.
• Production support accountability is real and permanent, incidents must be owned through to resolution.