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MES Solution Architect
London
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Role: MES Solution Architect
Location: London, UK Type: Full-Time/ Permanent
Job Responsibilities
Solution Architecture & Design
- Define end-to-end MES solution architectures for enterprise and multi-site manufacturing environments.
- Translate manufacturing requirements across production, quality, traceability, scheduling, material management, and operations into logical and physical solution designs.
- Develop and maintain architecture artifacts, including system landscapes, process flows, integration patterns, deployment architectures, and technical design documentation.
- Ensure MES solutions align with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, scalability, availability, performance, and other non-functional requirements.
- Establish architecture principles, standards, and reusable solution patterns for MES implementations.
- Provide architectural governance throughout the MES lifecycle, from requirements and design through implementation, deployment, stabilization, and continuous improvement.
Technical Leadership & Delivery Support
- Act as the technical authority for MES architecture and solution design decisions throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Provide technical leadership, guidance, and mentorship to solution architects, designers, technical leads, developers, and implementation teams.
- Support the configuration, extension, and customization of MES capabilities based on business and manufacturing requirements.
- Lead the analysis and resolution of complex architecture, integration, performance, scalability, and deployment challenges.
- Review technical designs and implementation approaches to ensure alignment with approved architecture and engineering standards.
- Drive consistency and standardization across MES implementations and manufacturing sites.
Integration & Data Architecture
- Design and govern integrations between MES and enterprise, engineering, and shopfloor systems, including:
- ERP platforms
- PLM platforms
- SCADA and industrial automation systems
- PLC and machine-level systems
- IoT and edge platforms
- Enterprise data and analytics platforms
- Define manufacturing data models, master data structures, genealogy and traceability models, transactional data flows, and real-time integration patterns.
- Design secure and scalable integration architectures using appropriate APIs, messaging, event-driven, and data exchange patterns.
- Ensure data integrity, consistency, availability, performance, and end-to-end visibility across manufacturing and enterprise systems.
- Define information flows across ISA-95 Levels 3 and 4 and ensure appropriate separation of responsibilities between manufacturing and enterprise systems.
- Apply ISA-95 and ISA-88 principles to manufacturing system architecture and process design.
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Manufacturing Process Alignment
- Collaborate with manufacturing operations, engineering, quality, supply chain, and IT teams to align MES capabilities with business and operational processes.
- Translate manufacturing requirements into scalable digital workflows covering:
- Production execution
- Quality management
- Work-in-progress (WIP) tracking
- Material and resource management
- Genealogy and traceability
- Scheduling and capacity planning
- Maintenance and operational support
- Support the development of a connected digital thread across manufacturing, quality, engineering, and supply chain processes.
- Identify opportunities to improve manufacturing visibility, standardization, automation, traceability, and operational efficiency through MES capabilities.
- Ensure MES architecture supports current operational requirements while providing flexibility for future manufacturing transformation initiatives.
Stakeholder & Partner Collaboration
- Engage business, manufacturing, engineering, quality, and IT stakeholders to understand requirements and validate solution architecture.
- Facilitate architecture workshops and communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Collaborate with technology partners, system integrators, and product teams to evaluate capabilities and ensure alignment with the overall solution architecture.
- Support solution estimation, technical proposals, architecture assessments, and transformation initiatives.
- Provide technical input to program leadership and executive stakeholders on architecture decisions, dependencies, risks, and implementation considerations.
Required Qualifications
- Experience in MES architecture, solution design, implementation, manufacturing systems, or related technology roles.
- Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale MES solutions across complex or multi-site manufacturing environments.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing operations, shopfloor processes, production systems, and manufacturing execution principles.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise MES platforms and their capabilities across production execution, quality, scheduling, traceability, and manufacturing intelligence.
- Strong experience integrating MES with ERP, PLM, SCADA, PLC, IoT, industrial automation, and enterprise data platforms.
- Strong knowledge of ISA-95, ISA-88, manufacturing information models, and MES architecture principles.
- Experience with enterprise integration patterns, APIs, messaging, event-driven architectures, and manufacturing data flows.
- Experience developing solution architecture, integration architecture, deployment architecture, and technical design documentation.
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity, performance, scalability, availability, and other non-functional requirements within manufacturing environments.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder-management, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work effectively with plant-level teams, engineering organizations, IT leadership, system integrators, and executive stakeholders.
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Preferred Qualifications
- Certification in an established MES, manufacturing technology, enterprise architecture, or related platform.
- Experience across one or more manufacturing sectors, including:
- Industrial Manufacturing
- Automotive
- Aerospace & Defense
- Life Sciences
- Process Manufacturing
- Experience with digital manufacturing, smart factory, Industry 4.0, or manufacturing transformation programs.
- Previous experience as an MES Solution Architect, Manufacturing Systems Architect, Smart Manufacturing Architect, Digital Manufacturing Architect, or Industry 4.0 Architect.
- Experience working within complex, regulated, global, or multi-site manufacturing environments.
- Familiarity with cloud-based manufacturing platforms, edge computing, industrial IoT, analytics, AI/ML-enabled manufacturing, and digital thread architectures.
- Experience establishing MES architecture standards, reference architectures, reusable frameworks, and governance models.
Core Competencies
- MES Solution Architecture
- Manufacturing Systems Integration
- ISA-95 / ISA-88
- Production & Quality Management
- Manufacturing Data Architecture
- Genealogy & Traceability
- ERP / PLM / Shopfloor Integration
- Industrial IoT & Automation
- Digital Manufacturing & Industry 4.0
- Enterprise & Solution Architecture
- Technical Leadership
- Multi-Site Manufacturing Transformation
- Architecture Governance
- Manufacturing Data & Analytics
- Integration & API Architecture
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