The Company
Cognizant (NASDAQ:CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant has over 340,000 employees as of January 2025. Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 1000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.
Cognizant Consulting
At Cognizant, our consultants orchestrate the capabilities to truly change the game across strategy, design, technology and industry/functional knowledge to deliver insight at speed and solutions at scale. Our consulting services elevate the unique abilities and business aspirations of customers and employees and build relationships based on trust and value.
Energy & Utilities Consulting
Energy & utilities in the UK are going through a transformation journey with the focus on making data-centric Asset Investment decisions, enhanced customer experience (through digital and data enablement), sustainable and reliable infrastructure(green energy driven water treatment, fewer leakages etc.), digitalisation of the aging infrastructure, visualisation of their disparate decision support systems in a single pane of glass and most importantly disruption from innovative technologies entering the marketplace. Cognizant has engagements with multiple energy & utilities clients in the UK where we are helping them being customer obsessed and lead the transformation initiatives to build new offerings, solutions and innovative business models aligned to the market trends and regulatory commitments.
Role Overview
The OT Architect will lead the design integration and governance of Operational Technology (OT) systems across a modern utilities environment. This role focuses on secure SCADA telemetry and industrial automation platforms ensuring seamless interoperability with enterprise IT ERP and cloud ecosystems.
Roles & Responsibilities
OT Architecture & Systems Integration
Design and maintain end to end OT architectures covering SCADA RTUs/PLCs telemetry historian platforms and field communications.
Develop integration patterns between OT systems and enterprise IT/ERP platforms (e.g. SAP Oracle Maximo GIS asset management).
Define secure data flows between plant control rooms corporate networks and cloud services.
Lead the adoption of IIoT technologies edge computing and modern data architectures for real time operational insight.
Cybersecurity & Compliance
Embed ISA/IEC 62443 NIS2 and UK CNI security principles into OT designs.
Conduct risk assessments threat modelling and architecture reviews across OT environments.
Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to implement segmentation zero trust principles and secure remote access for OT assets.
SCADA & Utilities Operations
Provide architectural leadership for SCADA upgrades control system migrations and telemetry modernization programs.
Work closely with control room operations and engineering teams to ensure system reliability availability and regulatory compliance.
Support lifecycle planning for OT assets including vendor selection obsolescence management and technology road mapping.
Stakeholder Engagement & Technical Leadership
Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership engineering managers and IT/OT program teams.
Translate operational requirements into scalable secure and compliant architectures.
Lead workshops produce high quality technical documentation and guide delivery partners and system integrators.
Support procurement contract reviews and vendor governance for OT and IIoT solutions.
Essential skills
Utilities Operational Domain Knowledge
Understanding of end-to-end business process model in Water and Wastewater treatment operations
Understanding of supervisory and control processes
Expertise in defining solutions for data acquisitions from operational systems and OT-IT Integration
Understanding of operational technology elements (PLCs, RTUs, Data Loggers, SCADA systems, Timeseries historian etc.) and how they help utility operational processes
Appreciation of protocols used in process automation – Modbus, OPC UA, OPC DA, MQTT, AMQP etc.
Enterprise Asset Management Domain Expertise for Utilities
Solution Design and Prototyping
Business & technology process mapping, capability maps and value streams
Excellent communication skills
Desired Skills
Expertise in Cloud Technologies preferably Azure
Appreciation of IoT Technologies
An appreciation of Enterprise Architecture
Over Cognizant
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is een bouwer van AI-oplossingen en een leverancier van technologiediensten. Wij slaan de brug tussen AI-investeringen en ondernemingswaarde door het bouwen van full-stack AI-oplossingen voor onze klanten. Onze diepgaande kennis van sectoren, processen en engineering stelt ons in staat om de unieke context van een organisatie te verankeren in technologische systemen. Deze systemen versterken het menselijk potentieel, realiseren tastbare resultaten en geven wereldwijde ondernemingen een voorsprong in een snel veranderende wereld. Ontdek hoe op cognizant.ai of @cognizant.
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