Azure Solution Architect - Industrial IoT

Why AIS? When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success. Employee Ownership : Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements. Continuous Learning : Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth. Inclusive Culture : A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued. Mission-Driven Work : Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities. What are we looking for? At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles. Working@AIS At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Infrastructure Architect. Core Knowledge & Skills: Architects scalable, resilient solutions; authors roadmaps and blueprints; integrates diverse components; advances automation (PowerShell/Python/Ansible) and governance/policy. Work & Complexity: Leads architectural initiatives, establishes performance benchmarks, integrates systems at scale, researches emerging tech, and mitigates enterprise risk. Quality & Independence: Ensures integrity, scalability, and cost/performance optimization; produces comprehensive design artifacts; sets and enforces standards with broad autonomy. Teamwork & Communication: Leads architectural teams, builds strategic partnerships, institutionalizes knowledge management, and communicates designs and executive‑ready reports. Consulting & Engagement: Delivers architectural consulting aligned to business strategy, proposes enterprise technologies, nurtures vendor alliances, and seeds new project opportunities. As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Azure Solution Architect - Industrial IoT. Position Summary   We are seeking an experienced   Azure Solution Architect – Industrial IoT   to lead the design and deployment of secure, scalable, and reliable Industrial Internet of Things ( IIoT ) solutions in Microsoft Azure. This role   is responsible for   translating operational technology (OT) and business requirements into end-to-end cloud and edge architectures that enable industrial connectivity, telemetry ingestion, device management, analytics, and operational insights. The ideal candidate brings deep   expertise   in Azure services, industrial protocols, edge computing, cybersecurity, and systems integration across manufacturing, utilities, energy, or other industrial environments.   Key Responsibilities   Lead the architecture, design, and technical governance of Azure-based industrial IoT and edge solutions.    Define   end-to-end   IIoT   reference architectures spanning sensors, PLCs, SCADA/DCS systems, industrial gateways, edge   compute , cloud ingestion, storage, analytics, and visualization.    Design solutions using Azure services such as   Azure IoT Operations, Azure IoT Hub, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Functions, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Arc, Azure Monitor, Microsoft Defender for IoT, and Azure Digital Twins   as   appropriate .    Architect secure and resilient connectivity patterns between plant-floor assets and Azure, including edge-to-cloud messaging, store-and-forward, intermittent connectivity handling, and remote site deployment models.    Develop strategies for ingesting and normalizing data from industrial protocols and systems such as   OPC UA, Modbus, MQTT, BACnet, DNP3, and proprietary OEM interfaces .    Collaborate with OT engineers, plant operations, cybersecurity teams, infrastructure teams, and software developers to ensure solutions align with operational requirements and safety constraints.    Define device onboarding, identity, certificate management, lifecycle management, patching, and remote operations models for field and plant devices.    Design data architectures that support real-time monitoring, historian integration, predictive maintenance, condition monitoring, asset performance management, and advanced analytics use cases.    Ensure architectures incorporate security-by-design principles, including zero trust, network segmentation, role-based access control,   secrets   management, device hardening, and regulatory compliance.    Produce architecture artifacts including solution diagrams, interface definitions, security models, deployment patterns, migration plans, and   implementation   roadmaps.    Provide technical leadership during pilots, proof-of-concepts, and production deployments, including design reviews, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.    Establish non-functional requirements for availability, scalability, latency, resiliency, observability, and disaster recovery.    Support cost modeling, environment sizing, and cloud consumption planning for   IIoT   workloads.    Mentor engineering teams and provide architectural oversight across implementation and operational handoff.    Required Qualifications   Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science , Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.    8+ years of experience in solution architecture, cloud engineering, or enterprise systems integration.    3+ years of experience designing or deploying   industrial IoT / OT-integrated solutions   in manufacturing, energy, utilities, transportatio