IT/OT Consultant & Architect

IT/OT Consultant & Architect
3 month contract (extensions likely)
Immediate start
London (3-4 days per week onsite)
Inside IR35

We are urgently seeking an IT/OT Consultant & Architect, for an initial 16-week position, starting immediately, that can be on client site in London 3 or 4 days per week.

Key Responsibilities;

• Conduct multi-site OT assessments, maturity evaluations, and discovery activities across manufacturing facilities to establish the OT baseline, identify gaps, and define standardization opportunities.
• Lead workshops, site surveys, Gemba walks, and stakeholder interviews to analyze OT systems, industrial networks, data flows, PLC/Scada/Historian environments, and IT/OT integration landscapes.
• Define scalable OT Data Foundation and North-Star Reference Architectures encompassing edge, cloud, cybersecurity, integration, and enterprise manufacturing data platforms.
• Design and standardize OT information models, asset hierarchies, naming conventions, and governance frameworks to enable consistent, trusted, and interoperable manufacturing data across sites.
• Architect industrial connectivity and data integration solutions using OPC UA, MQTT, Historians, and Unified Namespace (UNS) principles to support Real Time data access, enterprise visibility, and AI-ready manufacturing ecosystems.
• Develop transformation roadmaps