Principal Solution Architect (PI Data Infrastructure / AVEVA CONNECT Digital Twin)

Join AVEVA, a global leader in industrial software, as a Principal Solution Architect. In this role, you will lead architecture, solution design, and customer engagement for PI Data Infrastructure and AVEVA CONNECT Digital Twin initiatives. You will work with global and regional teams to deliver scalable, value-driven industrial data solutions across various sectors. As a trusted advisor, you will help translate business needs into robust technical architectures and successful delivery outcomes.

Lead architecture, solution design, and customer engagement for PI Data Infrastructure and AVEVA CONNECT Digital Twin initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor to customers and internal teams, helping translate business needs into robust technical architectures and successful delivery outcomes.
• Define architecture standards, templates, best practices, and rollout approaches for multi-site or enterprise deployments.
• Experience with AF SDK/.NET, PI system administration, archive management, PI calculations, troubleshooting, backups, and operational dashboard design
• Ability to map customer KPIs and use cases, such as operational efficiency, compliance, sustainability, asset monitoring, CBM, and data consolidation, to PI DI and CONNECT value outcomes

Requirements

• 15+ years of relevant experience in solution architecture, consulting, services delivery, or industrial software implementation
• Deep experience with PI Data Infrastructure, including PI Server installation, configuration, connectivity, protocols, alerting, aggregation, Asset Framework, PI Vision, and PI DataLink
• Strong industrial domain experience in sectors such as energy, mining, data centres, utilities, chemicals, manufacturing, or other asset-intensive environments
• Experience leading or supporting global or regional industrial data programmes across multiple plants or sites
• Proven ability to lead customer workshops, translate requirements into clear system designs, and communicate effectively with IT, OT, plant leadership, and business stakeholders
• Experience supporting pre-sales, solution estimation, proposal development, project risk management, and partner or capability-building initiatives
• Strong understanding of SCADA systems, PI Interfaces and Connectors, OPC DA/UA, Modbus, DCS systems, and industrial automation data connectivity

Preferred

• Experience with AVEVA CONNECT capabilities, including CONNECT Data, sharing, analytics, visualisation, digital twin, DataOps, and AI/ML-enabled use cases