Lead SCADA Engineer- Ignition / Data Centers

Knobelsdorff is hiring a Lead SCADA Engineer to lead the design, development, deployment, and commissioning of Ignition-based SCADA applications for mission-critical data center facilities. The role builds scalable supervisory control systems for electrical and mechanical infrastructure, supports project delivery through turnover, and mentors engineers while establishing engineering standards.

Responsibilities:

• Developing Ignition Perspective applications for mission-critical data center operations, including electrical one-lines, mechanical system graphics, equipment status, alarms, trends, and historical data
• Building reusable UDTs, parameterized views, tag structures, and scripts that scale across buildings, pods, and equipment rooms
• Integrating EPMS, BMS, PLCs, and equipment controllers including switchgear, UPS systems, generators, power meters, chillers, and pumps
• Configuring and deploying Ignition Gateways, including gateway networks, device connections, database connections, MQTT, role-based access, redundancy, backups, and recovery
• Leading factory acceptance testing (FAT), site acceptance testing (SAT), point-to-point checkout, alarm verification, and failover testing
• Supporting on-site commissioning, integrated systems testing, startup activities, and turnover to facility operations teams
• Coordinating technical decisions with electrical, mechanical, networking, commissioning, and project teams
• Reviewing engineering deliverables, mentoring team members, and helping establish consistent SCADA engineering standards and best practices
• Troubleshooting communications, tag quality, alarm behavior, and historical data issues during commissioning and operational support

Requirements:

• 7+ years of SCADA, HMI, controls engineering, or industrial automation experience, including experience leading technical project delivery
• Bachelor's degree in Automation Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent industry experience
• Hands-on Ignition development and commissioning experience, including building or configuring applications and supporting testing, startup, or turnover activities
• Strong working knowledge of Ignition 8.x, including Perspective, Gateway configuration, UDTs, scripting, alarming, and tag history
• Experience integrating electrical or mechanical systems using OPC UA, Modbus TCP, BACnet/IP, EtherNet/IP, MQTT, or similar industrial communication protocols
• Experience troubleshooting communications, alarms, historical data, and system performance during commissioning and startup
• Strong communication, documentation, mentoring, and technical leadership skills
• Experience with data center infrastructure, EPMS/BMS systems, Ignition redundancy, Git-based source control, or Inductive Automation certifications preferred