Specialist SCADA Engineer - Rail Infrastructure
Communication and Information Systems (CIS) business.
What will be my Responsibilities?
* Leading the development and governance of system architectures, solution patterns and reusable components across all SCADA and control system domains - ensuring approaches are scalable, secure, maintainable and aligned to business best practice.
* Acting as the technical authority for complex or first to type solutions, providing specialist insight in technology such as A8000 RTUs, S7 / TIA architectures, SCADA (incl. WinCC OA) behaviours, interface models and cross system integration challenges.
* Driving engineering excellence and consistency by defining standards, frameworks, templates and assurance methods that strengthen solution quality, promote reuse and reduce engineering effort across projects and bids.
* Providing high value specialist input to bids, estimates and solution strategies, ensuring technical approaches are feasible, risk aware, cost effective and reuse aligned.
* Mentoring and guiding engineers and senior engineers, acting as the go to expert for problem solving, system behaviour analysis, interface definition and engineering decision support.
* Assuring compliance with engineering governance, safety, cyber security, configuration and lifecycle processes, providing clear technical direction and challenge where needed.
* Representing the business as a subject matter expert, collaborating with SMEs, customers, suppliers and internal teams to shape solutions, resolve complex issues and maintain technical credibility.
Skills, Qualifications & Experience
* Extensive technical expertise across SCADA and control systems, including Power SCADA, Station Information / M&E supervisory systems, Tunnel Ventilation and route wide engineering management architectures.
* Deep hands-on knowledge of technology such as A8000 RTUs, Siemens S7 PLCs, TIA Portal, and the integration of PLC / RTU based systems with field devices, networks and multisystem interfaces.
* Expert level capability with SCADA platforms, ideally WinCC OA, covering system design, architecture patterns, interface models, data structures and deployment strategies.
* Advanced systems engineering capability - requirements engineering, architecture definition, interface control, integration strategy, verification / validation, and life-cycle governance.
* Proven experience operating as a technical authority, providing design assurance, technical direction, configuration / change governance and specialist review on complex or safety critical systems.
* Strong background shaping and delivering reusable, scalable, maintainable system solutions, including first of type or novel engineering approaches.
* Degree (or equivalent) in a relevant engineering discipline, with Chartered Engineer status (or working towards it), and excellent communication, leadership and problem-solving skills
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