OT Integration Delivery Lead (7137)

OT Integration Delivery Lead

Join a global market leader in the production and process support of active pharmaceutical ingredients, operating within both the chemical and biotechnology sectors. This 12-month contract role, based in Basel, Switzerland, offers the possibility of extension and focuses on delivering the OT integration and OT operational-application scope of Operations Data Hub Phase 1. The position covers the Portsmouth Midscale Lighthouse and the Cross-Platform Network Assessment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the detailed design, configuration, development, testing, and deployment of OT integrations for ODH Phase 1.
• Deliver Lighthouse integrations with DeltaV, Syncade MES, PI Historian, and plant-side components of LIMS connectivity.
• Implement OT operational applications and plant-side visualization capabilities within the approved ODH scope.
• Ensure all integration deliverables are completed within the established scope, schedule, budget, quality, and resource framework.
• Coordinate site automation resources, external delivery partners, and system vendors throughout the execution phase.

OT Platform Configuration and Development

• Deliver OT-side configuration and development for Ignition, HiveMQ, connectors, gateways, and related integration services.
• Define and implement OT message structures, topic structures, UDT mappings, interfaces, and source-to-platform transformations.
• Align OT monitoring, diagnostics, exception handling, and failure recovery requirements with the IT/OT Delivery Lead.
• Collaborate with the Semantic Models Lead to ensure technical mappings preserve intended business meaning and semantic relationships.
• Work with the Source System Readiness & Remediation Lead to confirm source accuracy, information availability, and remediation dependencies.
• Define pragmatic integration-readiness criteria and identify material constraints, dependencies, and integration gaps.
• Contribute OT platform and integration components to the target blueprint, including reusable Ignition and HiveMQ patterns.
• Ensure OT integration code and configurations are version controlled, documented, and managed through appropriate change and release processes.
• Support the E2E C&Q/CSV Lead in qualification and validation activities.
• Provide transparent delivery reporting to the GE Delivery Lead regarding partner scope, engineering delivery, and commercial oversight.

Required Qualifications

• Relevant Swiss working/residency permit and/or Swiss/EU-Citizenship.
• Bachelor or Master’s degree in Automation Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Control Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Proven experience (10+ years) delivering production-grade integrations across automation, MES, historian, and manufacturing-data platforms.
• Deep practical understanding of DCS, MES, and historian environments, preferably including DeltaV, Syncade, and AVEVA PI.
• Proven experience with Ignition, MQTT, HiveMQ, industrial gateways, message brokers, and event-driven manufacturing-data architectures.
• Strong understanding of digital-manufacturing architectures, ISA-88/ISA-95 structures, plant-to-enterprise integration, and OT/IT boundaries.
• Ability to implement mappings for batches, materials, equipment, recipes, process steps, parameters, events, samples, and quality information.
• Experience with APIs, supported connectors, message models, configuration management, version control, testing, and reusable software/configuration patterns.
• Understanding of automated deployments, environment promotion, release control, regression testing, and secure development practices in controlled OT environments.
• Practical understanding of regulated manufacturing, computerised-system validation, controlled change, traceability, and technical evidence requirements.
• Ability to direct system vendors, automation teams, and integration partners against clear technical deliverables and acceptance criteria.
• Ability to design integrations with appropriate monitoring, failure handling, diagnostics, maintainability, and vendor-supported lifecycle paths.
• Business fluency in English is mandatory.