OT Solutions Architect

Overview

OT Solutions Architect

Location: Remote EMEA (with travel as required)

Employment: Permanent

Role Overview:

The OT Solutions Architect will support the OT/IT Integration Lead by translating Morgan's digital manufacturing and OT cybersecurity strategy into secure, scalable and supportable technical solutions across global manufacturing sites. The role is the hands-on architecture and technical delivery authority for OT connectivity, industrial networks, asset visibility, secure remote access, SCADA, MES, historians, IIoT and manufacturing data integration.

Working across site engineering, operations, IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, vendors and system integrators, the postholder will develop solution designs, guide implementation, assure technical quality and enable consistent adoption of Morgan standards. Strategic ownership, governance accountability and portfolio leadership remain with the OT/IT Integration Lead

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

OT Solution Architecture and Design

· Develop high-level and low-level designs for secure, resilient and scalable OT solutions in line with Morgan architecture principles and approved standards.

· Design solutions across industrial networks, OT zones and conduits, firewalls, secure remote access, asset visibility, SCADA, MES, historians, edge platforms and IIoT connectivity.

· Produce architecture diagrams, bills of materials, interface definitions, data flows, security requirements, implementation patterns and handover documentation.

· Assess site constraints and brownfield dependencies, balancing standardization with practical manufacturing requirements.

IT/OT Integration and Manufacturing Data

· Design secure integration between PLCs, DCS, SCADA, MES, historians, ERP, cloud services and enterprise data platforms.

· Define appropriate protocols, interfaces and data exchange patterns, including OPC UA and other industrial communications where relevant.

· Support edge-to-cloud and manufacturing data enablement use cases while maintaining OT security, availability and performance requirements.

· Work with enterprise architecture and data teams to ensure solutions are interoperable, scalable and supportable.

OT Cybersecurity by Design

· Embed cybersecurity requirements into OT solution designs and implementation plans.

· Support deployment of network segmentation, industrial firewalls, secure remote access, asset discovery, monitoring and vulnerability management capabilities.

· Perform technical risk assessments and design reviews, recording risks, assumptions, dependencies and required mitigations.

· Apply relevant OT security good practice, including ISA/IEC 62443 and NIST-aligned principles, in coordination with Morgan Cybersecurity.

Project Delivery and Technical Assurance

· Provide technical leadership from discovery and options assessment through pilot, deployment, testing, commissioning and transition to support.

· Lead technical workshops, site readiness reviews, design reviews, factory or site acceptance activities and implementation assurance checkpoints.

· Guide vendors and system integrators, review technical submissions and challenge designs that do not meet requirements.

· Troubleshoot complex cross-domain issues and coordinate resolution across site, IT and supplier teams.

Standards, Documentation and Reuse

· Support the OT/IT Integration Lead in developing and maintaining reference architectures, design patterns, technical standards and deployment playbooks.

· Maintain accurate solution records, network and data-flow diagrams, configuration baselines, decision logs and technical debt registers.

· Capture lessons learned from pilots and deployments and convert them into repeatable patterns for future sites.

· Contribute technical knowledge to Morgan's OT Community of Practice and support capability uplift across sites.

Stakeholder and Supplier Collaboration

· Build effective working relationships with site engineering, operations, IT, cybersecurity, dig