3 days ago
Coimbatore, IndiaSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Design, configure, and maintain Ignition-based industrial applications for manufacturing data acquisition, visualization, control, and execution workflows.
- Develop applications that collect real-time shop floor data and convert it into actionable manufacturing insights.
- Integrate Ignition projects with upstream planning and downstream reporting systems to support traceability and operational decisions.
- Analyze manufacturing workflows, identify bottlenecks, and translate business requirements into technical specifications.
- Create standardized Ignition templates, reusable components, and configuration practices for deployment across plants and product lines.
- Optimize gateway configuration, scripting logic, database interactions, performance, runtime stability, and user access security.
- Document Ignition architectures, configuration standards, operating procedures, and troubleshooting processes.
- Support deployment, cutover, hypercare, monitoring, incident resolution, and production stabilization.
- Coordinate with cybersecurity and infrastructure teams on secure network connections, access controls, and backup strategies.
- Implement enhancements based on production metrics, end-user feedback, and digital manufacturing initiatives.
- Expose standardized operational data for reporting dashboards and predictive models.
- Ensure deliverables and configuration changes meet internal quality, regulatory, validation, and manufacturing standards.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on expertise designing, configuring, and maintaining Ignition-based industrial applications, including tags, scripting, visualization components, and gateway administration.
- Knowledge of manufacturing execution use cases including work order tracking, machine monitoring, and production data collection.
- Practical experience with manufacturing processes and supply chain operations, including material traceability.
- Eight to twelve years of experience in industrial automation or execution systems engineering.
- Strong relational database, query design, and data modeling skills.
- Ability to communicate technical capabilities, constraints, and design options to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Experience with version control, testing, documentation, and incident management practices for safe production deployments.
Benefits
- Hybrid working model with a day-shift schedule.
- Collaboration with global stakeholders and distributed engineering and operations teams.
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About Cognizant
Cognizant is a public IT services and consulting firm that designs, builds, and runs enterprise technology, including digital engineering, cloud modernization, data/AI, and managed services. It sells consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing on multi-year engagements to large enterprises in healthcare, banking, retail, communications, and manufacturing. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, Cognizant is NASDAQ-listed (CTSH) and a Fortune 500 company.