MFG Solution Architect-68458

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We're Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world's potential. We're people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-prove urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what's now to what's next.

We make it happen through the power of acceleration.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don't expect you to 'fit' every requirement - your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

Join our Manufacturing Digital Solutions team, where we partner with Operations, Engineering, Reliability, and Enterprise IT to modernize manufacturing through smart factory and Industry 4.0 initiatives. Our team is responsible for designing scalable enterprise solutions that seamlessly connect shop floor technologies with enterprise business systems. We drive digital transformation by enabling connected manufacturing, predictive maintenance, industrial automation, and cloud-enabled operations while ensuring secure, resilient, and future-ready architectures.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, plant engineers, operations teams, and IT leaders to define solution architecture aligned with manufacturing strategy and business objectives.
• Design secure, scalable, and resilient solutions integrating Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), SCADA, PLCs, HMI, DCS, and machine reliability platforms with enterprise applications including ERP, PLM, QMS, and Maximo.
• Lead solution architecture for Smart Factory and Industry 4.0 initiatives, including IIoT, edge computing, predictive maintenance, digital twins, AI/ML, and advanced manufacturing analytics.
• Evaluate and recommend technologies, platforms, cloud services, and vendors that best support manufacturing modernization initiatives.
• Ensure architecture complies with enterprise standards, cybersecurity requirements, OT/IT best practices, and regulatory compliance.
• Provide technical leadership throughout the entire project lifecycle-from solution discovery and architecture through implementation and production support.
• Participate as an embedded member of Agile Solution Pillars, contributing to sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, and architecture reviews.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to perform process mapping, solution design, system configuration, and integration planning.
• Develop and maintain architecture artifacts including solution blueprints, integration designs, system diagrams, and data flow documentation.
• Design enterprise integration strategies using APIs, middleware, OPC‑UA, MQTT, and other industrial communication protocols.
• Identify technical risks, recommend mitigation strategies, and drive architecture governance across manufacturing initiatives.
• Lead architecture reviews to improve platform stability, performance, scalability, and simplify complex enterprise landscapes.
• Stay current with emerging manufacturing technologies, Industry 4.0 trends, AI, cloud platforms, and enterprise architecture best practices.
• Contribute hands-on to application development initiatives when required.

• 10+ years of experience in Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Systems Integration, or related IT leadership roles.
• 5+ years of experience delivering enterprise solutions within manufacturing, industrial automation, or smart factory environments.
• Previous experience as a Solution Architect or Enterprise Architect supporting large-scale manufacturing organizations.
• Proven experience designing enterprise integrations across manufacturing and business systems.

• Strong knowledge of manufacturing operations and industrial technologies including:
  • MES
  • SCADA
  • PLCs
  • HMI
  • DCS
  • Industrial Networking
• Experience with…