Senior SCADA Engineer - AVEVA System Platform / OMI

The consultant will combine hands-on engineering activities with technical leadership responsibilities, contributing to the design, implementation, industrialization, governance, and continuous improvement of the future SCADA platform. The role focuses on real-time operational systems supporting power dispatching, energy management, grid balancing services, renewable integration, battery storage systems, and industrial automation.

Your missions:

• Support the migration and evolution of existing SCADA environments towards a standardized AVEVA System Platform / OMI architecture.
• Design scalable, maintainable, and reusable industrial software solutions.
• Translate operational and business requirements into robust SCADA solutions.
• Support real-time control and monitoring of production assets, renewable installations, and flexible energy assets.
• Contribute to automation of decision-making processes supporting ancillary services delivery.
• Participate in architecture governance and technical steering activities.
• Define and promote engineering standards, modelling conventions, and development best practices.
• Mentor developers and contribute to knowledge transfer initiatives.
• Ensure platform consistency, reliability, maintainability, and long-term scalability.
• Contribute to the industrialization strategy of the future SCADA platform.

Your activities: Solution Design & Technical Leadership

• Define and maintain AVEVA System Platform modelling standards.
• Establish reusable object templates and engineering conventions.
• Support architectural decisions related to AVEVA technologies.
• Review, challenge, and validate technical solutions proposed by project teams.
• Ensure consistency across multiple projects and development streams.
• Contribute to platform scalability, maintainability, and governance.
• Review technical deliverables and engineering quality.
• Participate in technical steering committees and discussions with architects and senior stakeholders.
• Support long-term industrialization and standardization initiatives.

Development & Engineering

• Develop, test, and maintain applications based on AVEVA System Platform.
• Design and implement ArchestrA object models and reusable templates.
• Design and implement advanced OMI visualization concepts.
• Develop ASP scripts and associated business logic.
• Perform technical analysis and application design activities.
• Produce effort estimations and engineering assessments.
• Support migration projects from legacy SCADA systems.
• Participate directly in implementation activities alongside development teams.

Integration & Operations

• Support installation and configuration of:
• AVEVA System Platform
• AVEVA OMI
• AVEVA Historian
• Design integration strategies for industrial communication infrastructures.
• Troubleshoot complex platform and application issues.
• Perform root cause analysis for critical incidents.
• Support production systems operating in a 24/7 environment when required.
• Contribute to improving platform stability, availability, and operational excellence.

Knowledge Sharing & Collaboration

• Coach and mentor developers on AVEVA technologies and best practices.
• Support knowledge transfer towards internal teams.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation.
• Contribute to engineering standards and governance frameworks.
• Participate in Agile and SAFe delivery teams.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, operational teams, and external contributors.

• AVEVA System Platform
• AVEVA OMI
• ArchestrA Object Modelling
• ASP Scripting
• Industrial Application Architecture
• Application Development & Engineering
• SCADA System Design and Development
• Technical Analysis and Solution Design
• Software Standardization and Reusable Engineering Approaches
• Real-Time Industrial Systems

Strong Assets

• AVEVA PI Historian
• AVEVA Application Server
• High Availability Architectures
• OPC DA / OPC UA / XML
• Modbus TCP / Serial
• IEC-104
• IP Network Diagnostics
• Industrial Cybersecurity
• SCADA Migration Projects
• Integration of Renewable Energy Assets
• Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)
• Power Dispatching and Energy Management Systems
• Industrial Communication Layers, * Master’s degree in IT, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Electromechanics, or related engineering discipline.
• Minimum 8 years of relevant professional experience.
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience with AVEVA System Platform in industrial production environments.
• Experience collaborating with AVEVA, AVEVA-certified organizations, ecosystem partners, or equivalent environments.
• Demonstrated experience defining engineering standards and industrial software governance.
• Experience coaching engineers and providing technical leadership.

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical mindset.
• Technical leadership and mentoring capabilities.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to influence and challenge technical decisions.
• Pragmatic problem-solving approach.
• Ability to balance software engineering principles with operational constraints.
• Team player capable of working in Agile / SAFe environments.

Other Requirements

• Availability for on-site presence at least 3 days per week.
• Driving licence required.
• Ability to support critical systems operating in a 24/7 industrial environment., * You have at least 8 years of professional experiences in IT
• If you are at least fluent in FR/ENG or NL/ENG it’s best
• You’re eager to learn, motivated and curious
• Let’s have a chat !

• Group insurance
• Dental insurance (partner/children included)
• 20 days statutory paid vacations (legal vacations cumulated for 1 year of work)
• 11 days recovery time work 38/40 per year (= annual average: 1 day per 20 days worked) if the client asks you to work 8h/day
• Representation fee net per month.
• Internet fee of € 40 per month.
• Company car with national fuel card OR Public transport reimbursed OR mobility package.
• Daily fee of 5.50€ net /day provided.
• Subscription GSM unlimited calls for Belgium (ITS subscription)
• Training plan (e-learning - certification at ITS charge)

Extra advantages:

• Being a rather small team in BE (6 in back-office), we’re very close to each of our consultants and we differentiate ourselves trying to really take care of you and make you grow with us and within our different clients.
• Regular follow-up (every 3 to 6months depending on your needs/will)
• Regular teambuilding to meet-up and have fun (every 3 months more or less)
• Flexibility and trust
• Benefits of still being part to a bigger group (ITS Group) and having access to resources and of a larger team of Experts
• Co-optation system because sharing is caring!