Digital Lead Engineer

Job description

Role Purpose

Responsible to manage the digital transformation to ensure meeting Internal & customers Strategies supporting business growth and excellence. This role includes; ensuring current and emerging digital realities, opportunities and threats are fully inherited in the solution strategy, leading the development of the business model for the optimal use of information and technology, aligning the future business and service plans for PA business units and functions in line with the existing and future digital transformation & automation initiatives, and leading the execution of the digitalization projects.

Business

Key Responsibilities

Work with Customer and internal teams to create a digital strategy for the enterprise in alignment with the requirements, and to identify the opportunities for differentiating digital capabilities and solutions. Lead the process to identify and evaluate digital asset capabilities and strengths. Assess digital opportunities and threats as key inputs to making the best decisions on business strategy given digital realities.

Contribute to the development of the digital strategy and road map and ensure its integration with the enterprise strategic planning process, and the resulting business strategy and plans. Provide a single point of coordination and oversight for internal, Global and external digital initiatives and transformation projects. Ensure that the digital strategy adopted maintains digital assets and capabilities that will be current in the midterm and long term.

Act as a champion and change agent in leading the organizational changes required to create and sustain digital capabilities. Define and report on metrics that represent progress against digital goals. Act as a thought leader on emerging digital business models and technologies, articulating the digital future and the enterprise's role in it internally and externally. Build and maintain relationships with the Owners in the area of digitalization to ensure synergy.

Collaborate with the IT / OT Management and Teams to develop and exploit new digital business solutions. Lead the Data Science and Analysis aspects to support information flow and decision making, as main enabler for reporting and dashboards. Collaborate in Setup of Digitalization Vision and Strategies, Projects and Roadmaps to support the business transformation and automation. Lead and oversee the development of a Digital service offerings and efficient service delivery model Oversee Digital use case lifecycle delivery through design, prototyping and full-scale roll-out, where applicable.

Front local Digital and innovation events, seminars, and associations Review Digital value realization (i.e. ROI) across functions Technical Key Responsibilities:

• Define and lead the architecture and delivery of digital twin and asset information solutions, including data modeling, taxonomy definition, and metadata quality.
• Collaborate with Sales and Project Managers to develop scope, estimates, and technical deliverables.
• Collaborate with data science teams to integrate predictive models, anomaly detection, and engineering analytics into the twin
• Configure and deploy AVEVA AIM, including data ingestion, model structuring, dashboards, and search configurations.
• Integrate engineering, maintenance, and operational data (P&IDs, 3D models, CMMS, Historian, DCS, IoT, SCADA tags, documents).
• Conduct on-site and remote data validation, configuration, commissioning, and user acceptance testing.
• Define and enforce data governance frameworks, class libraries, and engineering information standards (ISO 15926, CFIHOS, ISA‑95/ISA‑88, OPC UA, and BIM standards (ISO 19650)).
• Coordinate with global engineering centers to ensure accuracy and quality.
• Identify project risks and interoperability challenges and create mitigation plans.
• Serve as primary technical interface with customers, managing expectations and resolving issues.
• Ensure adherence to engineering processes, cybersecurity guidelines, and quality standards.
• Mentor engineering team members and support capability development.
• Optimize project cost, resource allocation, and reduce rework to improve margins. 10+ Years of experince in Digital Transformation and Digital projects is required.

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