Senior Solution Architect

Role overview

Location and working arrangement

• The role is listed for Cambridge, UK or Madrid, Spain.
• The description identifies the role as full-time and hybrid.
• AVEVA generally expects most office-based roles to be on-site for about 50% of working hours, with the final arrangement confirmed during hiring.

Key responsibilities

• Lead solution architecture, workshops, implementation planning, and technical design for customer programmes.
• Gather customer requirements, manage stakeholders, and act as a trusted advisor and escalation point.
• Define architecture standards, templates, best practices, and rollout approaches for enterprise deployments.
• Collaborate with product, services, sales, pre-sales, and delivery teams to shape customer value and use cases.
• Mentor multidisciplinary teams of architects, engineers, developers, UX specialists, and industry experts.

Essential requirements

• 15 or more years of relevant experience in solution architecture, consulting, services delivery, or industrial software implementation.
• Deep PI Data Infrastructure experience covering PI Server, connectivity, protocols, alerting, aggregation, Asset Framework, PI Vision, and PI DataLink.
• Strong industrial experience in asset-intensive sectors such as energy, mining, utilities, manufacturing, chemicals, or data centres.
• Ability to lead workshops, translate requirements into system designs, and communicate with technical and business stakeholders.
• Experience with global or regional industrial data programmes across multiple plants or sites.

Desired skills

• Experience with AVEVA CONNECT data, sharing, analytics, visualisation, digital twin, DataOps, or AI/ML capabilities.
• Understanding of SCADA, PI Interfaces and Connectors, OPC DA/UA, Modbus, DCS, and industrial automation connectivity.
• Experience with AF SDK/.NET, PI administration, archive management, PI calculations, troubleshooting, backups, and dashboards.
• Experience with KPI mapping, pre-sales, estimation, proposals, project risk management, or partner capability building.

Benefits

• UK benefits include flexible benefits, annual leave, pension, life cover, private medical insurance, parental leave, and education assistance.
• Specific benefits vary by country where the position is recruited.

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