IT/0T Consultant & Architect

Job Title: IT/0T Consultant & Architect - Immediate start!! Location: Central London - 2/3 days a week Salary/Rate: £690 Start Date: Immediate start! Duration: 4 months

A global technology and engineering organisation delivering digital, infrastructure, and industrial solutions across multiple sectors are looking for an experienced IT/OT Consultant & Architect with excellent UNS/data architecture experience is immediately required by global professional services for high profile manufacturing industry assignment. Candidates applying must be able to work on client site, 2/3 days per week in Central London.

IT/OT Consultant & Architect - 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, technology standards, deployment strategies, and business cases that align OT modernization initiatives with operational excellence, cybersecurity, and digital manufacturing objectives.

If you have the skills and experience we're looking for and are ready for your next opportunity, please apply now