Smart Manufacturing Consultant (Hands-on IT/OT + Cloud)

About the role

We’re looking for a hands-on Smart Factory Consultant to collaborate with us on a freelance, ad-hoc, project basis (this is not a full-time position). This role is well-suited for experienced consultants who enjoy stepping into complex environments to shape and guide architecture decisions. In this role, you’ll design and drive delivery of edge-to-cloud industrial data & application architectures across global manufacturing sites.

What you'll do

• Act as the technical expert for Smart Factory / Edge architectures in a multi-site, multi-stakeholder environment
• Review architectural designs (edge, network, cloud, security, data models) and confirm the feasibility of implementation plans
• Align with Cloud Engineers and OT consultants to ensure ISA-95 compliant IT/OT integration and interoperability across layers (L0–L4/5)
• Tag list/signals, payload schemas/formats, naming conventions
• Create logical & conceptual models for contextualization

What you need

• 7–13 yrs of experience
• PLC
• AWS
• Azure
• Snowflake
• SCADA
• DCS
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Cloud security
• IAM
• Databricks
• Firewalls
• Terraform
• REST APIs