Ignition Sr. Developer

About the Unit:

TCS IAE is redefining the future of industry by embedding intelligence across engineering, manufacturing, asset, and service value chains. Powered by AI, connected ecosystems, and autonomous operations, it transforms insights into actioncreating self-optimizing, resilient, and intelligent enterprises at scale. By seamlessly converging the physical and digital worlds, TCS IAE is enabling a new era of AI-first enterprises where systems continuously learn, adapt, and evolvedriving measurable outcomes and shaping how industries operate for the future.

Role Name : Ignition Sr. Developer

Responsibilities:

1 Own the technical review of Ignition applications and define solution approaches for new development, modernization, complex modifications, and production improvements.

2 Lead the design and governance of tag architectures, HMI screens, templates, navigation patterns, reusable components, and global standards implementation.

3 Design and approve reusable assets such as UDTs, HMI templates, faceplates, and common frameworks, ensuring scalability, maintainability, performance, and consistency.

4 Lead code and design reviews, testing strategy, defect resolution, deployment planning, technical documentation, sign-off, and production-readiness activities.

5 Ensure development and modification activities comply with applicable URS, validation, traceability, change-control, cybersecurity, formatting, and documentation expectations.

6 Provide technical leadership and mentoring to Ignition developers, support effort estimation and planning, and proactively manage technical risks, dependencies, and escalations.

7 Engage with business, manufacturing, automation, MES, infrastructure, and validation stakeholders to clarify requirements and drive timely technical decisions.

8 Support incident analysis, root-cause identification, performance improvement, platform upgrades, and continuous improvement of Ignition engineering practices.

Must Have Skills:

• Advanced hands-on expertise in Ignition SCADA architecture, development, configuration, troubleshooting, and production support.
• Strong experience designing and governing tag structures, HMI screens, reusable objects, templates, UDTs, faceplates, navigation frameworks, alarming, and standard application assets.
• Ability to independently assess existing Ignition applications, identify technical gaps, define improvement approaches, and lead complex enhancements or modernization activities.
• Experience establishing and enforcing development standards, conducting code and design reviews, and ensuring scalability, maintainability, performance, and reuse.
• Strong experience with testing strategy, defect resolution, deployment planning, release readiness, documentation, and technical sign-off.
• Working knowledge of URS, validation-oriented documentation, traceability, change control, and compliance expectations in standards-driven environments.
• Ability to provide technical direction, mentor developers, estimate work, manage technical risks and dependencies, and drive issues to closure.
• Strong stakeholder communication skills with the ability to translate business and manufacturing requirements into robust Ignition solutions.

Good to have Skills:

• Exposure to shopfloor and manufacturing applications in multi-site or global environments.
• Understanding of Ignition integrations with PLCs, OPC, databases, historians, MES, ERP, and related industrial systems, where applicable.
• Experience supporting high-availability, performance optimization, cybersecurity, disaster recovery, and regulated or validated environments.
• Ignition certification or experience leading platform upgrades, migrations, and reusable global template rollouts.
• Strong collaboration, documentation, governance, and issue-tracking discipline.

Location: Pan India

Experience Range: 8+ years