Senior Control System Architect-SC Cleared or Eligible Mandatory

Location

Wokingham, Berkshire | United Kingdom

Job description

The Role

As a Sr Control System Architect, you will be responsible for designing and implementing the Power Transmission SCADA, Data Historian working and guiding along with the team technically and deliver the technical artefacts.

Key responsibilities:

• Work closely with the stakeholders and its suppliers.
• Own accountability for producing quality solutions whilst optimizing delivery time and cost.
• Own accountability for producing system design meeting the business requirements.
• Ensure solutions conform to Architecture Principles.
• Provide clear, actionable insights and proposals to the project leadership team.
• Work with the Product Owners, Technical Product Owners, and Delivery managers along with Engineers, Test Engineers, and Customer Experience Designers.
• Own responsibility for the delivery of technical artefacts.
• Recognise and communicate project risks. Handle teams and guide them technically.
• Manage the customer and stakeholders.

Your Profile

Key Skills/Knowledge/Experience:

• Experience of working in Control Systems, preferably Electrical Control Systems eg, GE AEMS, PowerOn Reliance, Alstom etc.
• In-depth understanding of Operations Technologies and typical landscape of OT - SCADA, RTU, Telemetry, Substation Automation etc.
• Must be SC Cleared or Eligible for SC Clearance.
• Excellent working knowledge on Data Historians - OSI PI, GE Proficy etc.
• In-depth understanding of control room protocols - ICCP (IEC-60870-6 tase.2), C37.118, IEC 60870-5-104/101, Control Room TCP/IP, UDP, Modbus etc.
• Very good understanding of Databases - Oracle, SQL, Cosmos DB.
• Ability to discuss with multiple stakeholders to understand the requirements.
• Ability to perform Feasibility and Analysis and provide high level design documents including but not limited to Solution Architecture, Data Models, Technical Architecture.
• Excellent understanding of both Industrial and IT Networks protocols like VLAN, VPN, DMZ, Firewalls, Switches, Load balancers and its related standards like ISA 95 etc for Solution Designing and Architecting.
• Clear understanding of Enterprise network, Secure network and have an ability to demarcate the needs of each system.
• Ability to chalk out the technical requirements along with Functional and non-functional requirements.
• Expertise in Electrical Power Systems, Substation Engineering, Electrical Networks.
• System Operator specific understanding - RTU, PMU, Inertia Monitoring, Balancing.
• Good understanding of integrating applications with different systems using Web Services (REST/SOAP API).
• Robust understanding of NIST/NIS-D Security Requirements and Compliance. Good idea about IDS.
• Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work independently and collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Demonstrated ability to recognise and communicate project risks.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities and challenges throughout the project development and successfully managing the customer expectations.

Good to have:

• Good understanding of Settlements, Renewables Energy etc.

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Salary

£70k per annum