Manager/Solution Architect

About the role

Deloitte's Industrial Data Operations (IDO) practice helps clients turn plant-floor data into a trusted, reusable enterprise asset that powers operational excellence, connected enterprises, and digital transformation. We bring together people, processes, and technology to connect industrial assets and systems, contextualize data across IT and OT environments, govern data quality and access, and deliver reliable information for analytics and decision-making. Our work enables capabilities such as production performance, factory synchronization, predictive maintenance, supply chain visibility, digital twins, and AI-enabled manufacturing applications—creating the scalable data foundation organizations need to move beyond brittle point-to-point solutions and realize value from their digital investments.

The teamWe are a team of strategic advisors, architects, and implementers who drive business transformations. Our diverse talent energizes clients' business functions and technology to maximize value in Supply Chain enhancing their ability to fulfill their growth and efficiency ambitions. Imagine working with world-class supply network capabilities like Smart Factory, Strategy & Innovation, Supply Chain Responsiveness, Sourcing & Procurement, or Product Development & Operations!

Responsibilities

You will serve as the platform-agnostic industrial data architecture authority, leading foundation advisory and implementation workstreams across operational technology (OT), edge, and enterprise environments. You will define the OT-up architecture, including Unified Namespace (UNS) design, ISA-95 asset modeling, contextualization strategy, and integration topology across historian systems, edge platforms, and enterprise systems. You will also act as the technical voice in vice president- and director-level client conversations, translating plant-floor realities into practical architecture decisions. In this role, you will partner closely with delivery leadership, handing off the cloud data platform layer to the Delivery Manager while continuing to guide the industrial data architecture. On Cognite Data Fusion (CDF) engagements, you will work with the Cognite Platform Architect to align architecture decisions with platform capabilities.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in controls/automation engineering, OT integration, or industrial data architecture, including 5+ years leading architecture work across OT, edge, and enterprise environments and experience with a vendor or systems integrator.
• 5+ years defining OT-up architecture, including 2+ years designing UNS architecture and ISA-95 asset models from scratch.
• 5+ years designing connections among historian systems, edge platforms, and enterprise systems within industrial data architectures.
• 5+ years leading foundation advisory and implementation workstreams for industrial data or OT integration programs.
• Ability to serve as the technical voice in vice president- and director-level client conversations.
• 5+ years translating between operations/OT and IT/enterprise stakeholders.
• 3+ years of firsthand plant-floor experience, including reading and working from P&IDs.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience