Company: Capgemini
Location: Birmingham
Posted: May 13th, 2026
The IT/OT Data Architect defines and governs how operational technology (OT) and SCADA data is structured, integrated, and managed across the enterprise to support resilient operations, regulatory reporting, and advanced analytics. Operating at practice and enterprise scale, the role ensures industrial data is consistently modelled, secure, and fit for use across real-time operations and cloud-based analytics platforms, aligning OT data domains with our clients Azure data lake and broader IT/OT convergence strategy.
Own and evolve the enterprise SCADA and OT data architecture, including real time telemetry, historians, events, and operational context across multi site environments.
Design and govern a unified namespace and data model, ensuring consistent asset, tag, signal, and hierarchy standards across OT systems.
Define and assure integration patterns between SCADA, historians, telemetry platforms, and Azure data & analytics services, balancing latency, reliability, and scalability.
Establish OT data governance standards covering data quality, ownership, naming, lineage, retention, and alignment with master and reference data.
Translate operational and regulatory needs into clear data requirements for dashboards, KPIs, analytics, audit, and event replay, providing architectural leadership across IT/OT convergence initiatives.
Your profile
Youll bring strong experience working with industrial and operational data in asset intensive, regulated environments, with a solid understanding of how SCADA, historian, telemetry, and event/alarm data are modelled, integrated, and used at scale. Youre comfortable designing cloud based data and analytics solutionsparticularly on Microsoft Azureand understand modern IT/OT convergence patterns, including unified namespace concepts and standards such as OPC UA and MQTT. You combine technical depth with the ability to define pragmatic OT data governance and confidently engage stakeholders across operations, engineering, and leadership.
Key strengths
Industrial data modelling and cloud based data integration, with deep knowledge of Azure data platforms
IT/OT convergence, data governance, and stakeholder engagement across operational and enterprise teams
Open access to digital learning platforms
Active employee networks promoting diversity, equity and inclusion like OutFront, CapAbility or Women@Capgemini
Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Governments Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who
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About Capgemini
Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of over 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2025 global revenues of 22.5 billion.
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