Job
- Level
- Experienced
- Job Field
- IT, System, Security
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Cologne
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you own the strategy and lifecycle of a global OT application, developing backlogs, reviewing requirements, and collaborating with vendors to optimize operations and implement standards.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- The Global OT Application Owner owns the strategy, roadmap and backlog of the assigned global OT application.
- The role governs the assigned solution scope, including its global templates, technical and functional standards, software providers and system integrators, and ensures that the application delivers business value and can be consistently deployed, operated and improved across the client sites.
- Define and maintain the application strategy and multi-year roadmap.
- Translate business and plant requirements into clear application priorities.
- Decide what should be developed, configured, purchased, scaled, deferred or retired.
- Govern the application throughout its complete lifecycle.
- Own, structure and prioritize the application backlog.
- Establish clear requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Ensure that delivered functionality meets the agreed requirements, coordinating formal acceptance with the relevant business and site stakeholders.
- Define and maintain global templates, libraries, and application standards.
- Approve template changes, releases and deviations from the global standard.
- Govern application quality, compliance, scalability and maintainability.
- Ensure alignment with OT architecture, cybersecurity, data and integration standards.
- Govern rollout priorities, standards and application decisions across the application rollout portfolio.
- Negotiate rollout scope, priorities and commitments with site leadership and plant management.
- Coordinate application engineers, developers, vendors, and system integrators.
- Challenge vendors and system integrators at technical, delivery and commercial levels.
- Govern vendor performance, roadmap commitments, service levels, licensing and costs.
- Monitor application adoption, operational performance, incidents and support trends.
- Escalate application risks, delivery gaps and vendor-performance issues.
- Maintain transparent communication with business, plant and technical stakeholders.
- Ensure the application complies with the client policies, standards and directives, including the mandatory criteria defined for its control zone.
- Maintain the application profile and keep the inventory of the solutions in scope up to date.
- Ensure transparent reporting of application costs, risks, service information and benefits towards Group OT and the regional Digital OT/IT organization.
- Ensure that the Cloud Service Provider Check is completed and that Security clearance is obtained before any application contract is signed.
- Sei verantwortlich für die in der Anwendung gespeicherten und verarbeiteten Daten, auch im Falle von Cybervorfällen wie Datenlecks oder unbefugtem Zugriff.
- Govern application user access management across the user lifecycle where the application is not integrated into the client's global Active Directory.
- Act as the contact person for the application in internal and external audits.
- Ownership of SoftProject X4 as a global MES workflow and integration solution.
- Governance of application requirements, backlog, templates, and reusable workflow components.
- Coordination of the X4 scope across MES and related IIoT integration needs.
- Governance of interfaces, connectors and dependencies with plant and enterprise applications.
- Consistency of the X4 solution across sites while controlling necessary local adaptations.
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Our expectations of you
Education
- Technical degree in automation, industrial or process engineering, computer science or a related field.
Qualifications
- Application ownership: able to own the strategy, roadmap and backlog of a global industrial application and to decide what is developed, configured, purchased, scaled, deferred or retired.
- Requirements and acceptance: comfortable authoring requirements and acceptance criteria and running formal acceptance with business and site stakeholders.
- OT/IT and manufacturing data environments: working knowledge of SCADA/PLC, MES, IIoT, Unified Namespace and ERP interfaces.
- Standards and lifecycle governance: able to define and govern global templates, libraries and technical/functional standards, including quality, scalability and maintainability.
- Security, data and compliance awareness: familiar with OT cybersecurity, data classification, access management, group policy and audit requirements.
- Vendor and system integrator steering: able to challenge providers on technical fit, delivery quality, service levels, and cost.
- Workflow and integration expertise: solid understanding of MES workflow engines and of interfaces, connectors and dependencies with plant and enterprise applications.
- Technical challenge: able to challenge SoftProject and implementation partners on technical fit, delivery quality and maintainability.
- Languages: English as a minimum.
- Analytical and decisive: structures ambiguous plant demand into clear decisions on scope and priority.
- Influence without authority: negotiates priorities and commitments between plant demand and constrained delivery capacity.
- Universal communication: fluid between shop-floor, business and technical language.
- Organized and disciplined: able to run a multi-site, multi-rollout portfolio with competing priorities, risks and dependencies.
- Pragmatic and outcome-oriented: balances global standards with day-to-day operational reality on the shop floor.
- Organizational network and visibility: well-connected across business, OT and IT, able to mobilize the right people quickly.
- Exposure to SoftProject X4 or an equivalent workflow and integration platform.
Experience
- Hands-on experience in a manufacturing/production environment with OT systems (SCADA/PLC/MES/IIoT) and exposure to IT/data environments.
- Experience owning or functionally leading an industrial application: backlog, requirements, acceptance and lifecycle.
- Experience steering vendors and system integrators.
- Experience with multi-site deployments across plants and regions.
- Experience with workflow/BPM engines and with MES-ERP integration projects.
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What we offer
- Contract Type: Contract of Employment, Full-time.
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About Your Employer
AG SOLUTION
AG Solution GmbH, based in Cologne, is a renowned company specializing in industrial automation and digital solutions for the process industry. They assist industrial companies in implementing automation and digitization projects to enhance the efficiency of production processes. With a team of over 400 engineers and consultants, AG Solution operates in several European countries as well as in the USA.
Description
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Electronics, Automatization
Global OT Application Owner
- Location
- Cologne
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
