Principal Consultant

AVEVA is creating software trusted by over 90% of leading industrial companies.

Job Description

Job Title

Principal Consultant

Location

Hyderabad

Employment Type

Full Time

The job

We are seeking a highly accomplished and experienced Principal Consultant – Unified Operations Center (UOC) to lead the architecture, strategy, and delivery of enterprise-scale Industrial Automation and Digital Transformation solutions using the AVEVA portfolio. This role will serve as the technical authority for defining solution architectures, driving technology strategy, and delivering business-critical industrial solutions for global customers.

The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in AVEVA System Platform, Unified Operations Center (UOC), industrial system architectures, SCADA/HMI solutions, enterprise integration, cloud-enabled industrial platforms, and OT-IT convergence . The Principal Consultant will be responsible for defining enterprise solution blueprints, establishing architecture and engineering standards, leading technical governance, and ensuring the successful delivery of scalable, secure, resilient, and high-availability solutions across complex industrial environments.

As a trusted advisor to customers and executive stakeholders, the Principal Consultant will collaborate with business leaders, enterprise architects, project managers, and multidisciplinary engineering teams to shape digital transformation initiatives across industries including Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Manufacturing, Mining, Utilities, Water, and Power . The role also includes driving pre-sales and solution consulting activities, mentoring senior consultants and engineering teams, establishing technical best practices and reusable frameworks, and influencing the organization's technology roadmap while ensuring successful project execution and long-term customer success.

Key Responsibilities

Solution Design & Architecture

• Lead the architecture, design, and technical governance of enterprise-scale Unified Operations Center (UOC) and Industrial Automation solutions using the AVEVA portfolio.

• Define enterprise solution blueprints, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps aligned with customer business objectives and digital transformation strategies.

• Own the preparation, review, and approval of High-Level Design (HLD), Low-Level Design (LLD), Solution Design Documents (SDD), and architecture standards.

• Define and govern deployment architectures across the AVEVA ecosystem, including
• Galaxy Repository

• Application Object Servers

• AVEVA Historian

• Communication Drivers

• AVEVA OMI

• Alarm Servers

• Application Servers

• License Manager

• Identity Manager

• Establish architecture standards, engineering best practices, reusable frameworks, and governance models to ensure consistency across multiple projects and delivery teams.

• Design and review High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), redundancy, failover, backup, and business continuity strategies for mission-critical industrial applications.

• Lead infrastructure sizing, capacity planning, scalability assessments, and performance optimization for enterprise and multi-site deployments.

• Define enterprise system architectures encompassing network topology, virtualization, cloud/hybrid deployments, cybersecurity, identity management, and OT-IT integration.

• Provide technical leadership in solution reviews, architecture governance, risk assessments, and design assurance to ensure compliance with customer standards, AVEVA best practices, and industry regulations.

• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend architecture improvements to enhance system scalability, reliability, maintainability, and operational efficiency.

• Collaborate with customer stakeholders, enterprise architects, and multidisciplinary engineering teams to develop innovative, future-ready solutions that meet both business and operational objectives.

• Serve as the technical authority for complex solution design decisions, architecture escalations, and strategic technology direction across multiple projects and customer engagements.

Essential Requirements

Non-Technical

• Excellent written, verbal, technical, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to influence customers, executive stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.

• Demonstrated ability to lead customer workshops, solution discussions, architecture reviews, and executive presentations.

• Proven leadership, mentoring, and coaching skills with experience guiding technical teams and driving engineering best practices.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills with the ability to manage complex technical and business challenges.

• Ability and flexibility to travel for customer engagements, solution workshops, architecture reviews, commissioning, and project delivery.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Microsoft Project.

Technical

• 12–18 years of experience in Industrial Automation, SCADA, and Digital Transformation, with extensive hands-on experience delivering enterprise-scale solutions using the AVEVA portfolio.

• Recognized subject matter expert in the AVEVA product suite, including System Platform, Operations Control (UOC), OMI, Historian, Communication Drivers, Reports, Application Server, License Manager, and Identity Manager.

• Extensive experience in defining enterprise architecture, solution blueprints, and deployment strategies for large-scale AVEVA System Platform implementations.

• Proven experience leading Unified Operations Center (UOC) / AVEVA Operations Control programs across multiple sites, business units, or geographically distributed facilities.

• Strong expertise in designing highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient industrial automation architectures, including redundancy, disaster recovery (DR), and failover strategies.

• Extensive expe