Industrial IT Architect

• Produce and maintain high-quality technical documentation, ensuring design integrity and compliance with customer governance. • Review technical designs to ensure they align with architectural principles and project goals. • Collaborate with Operational Technology OEMs to integrate manufacturing equipment with IT infrastructure, bridging industrial technologies with enterprise IT applications.

• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including pre-delivery and proposals teams, to create robust technical solutions for customer projects. • Build strong relationships with stakeholders, understanding both their technical and business needs, to deliver tailored solutions.

• Inspire, mentor, and guide a team of IT engineers, providing technical leadership and fostering professional growth. • Create opportunities for team members to improve their skills through training and hands-on experience.

• Act as a key resource for troubleshooting and resolving complex technical issues related to infrastructure, systems architecture, or application integration. • Provide technical insights and lessons learned to improve future project delivery and refine methodologies.

• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the team’s technical tasks are aligned with project timelines and objectives. • Ensure smooth communication and workflow within the team, addressing bottlenecks and technical roadblocks promptly.

• Building strong relationships with customers by understanding their challenges and delivering solutions that meet their expectations. • Completing projects with a “right-first-time” approach and sharing technical insights to improve future work. • Driving technical innovation and excellence, while balancing business needs and commercial awareness.

• Proven experience in leading the technical delivery of IT projects, particularly within complex engineering or manufacturing environments. • Expertise in networking, security, infrastructure, virtualisation, and cloud technologies. • Strong understanding of enterprise IT systems, with experience in frameworks such as ITIL, PRINCE2 and TOGAF. • Effective communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical ideas at both technical and business levels. • Ability to mentor and guide IT engineers, creating a collaborative and productive team environment. • The ability to obtain Security Clearance to work at a UK MOD accredited manufacturing facility. • A willingness to work on-site at customers’ manufacturing facilities across the UK and occasionally overseas. • A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent industry experience.

• Familiarity with Operational Technology (OT), such as PLCs, SCADA and associated protocols (e.g., OPC UA, MTConnect and Profinet). • Understanding of industrial frameworks such as ISA-95 and the Purdue Model.

The benefits of working for ATS UK include: • 23 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 28 days at year 5, plus bank holidays • Private healthcare • Paid family support days • Enhanced maternity and paternity leave • Enhanced company sick pay • Salary sacrifice pension • Home office provision for hybrid or fully remote roles • Discretionary performance related bonus • Access to a fee-free mortgage service and other financial advice through our wellbeing partner • Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) • Life assurance • Employee ‘away days’