Control Systems Engineering Lead

Position Summary

Our Deloitte AI & Engineering team to transform technology platforms, drive innovation, and help make a significant impact on our clients' success. You'll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and reengineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses. Your contributions can help clients improve financial performance, accelerate new digital ventures, and fuel growth through innovation.

Work You'll Do

• Documentation and Policy Management: Ensure development, maintenance, and dissemination of comprehensive documentation for all key system architectures, policies, and operational procedures.
• Strategic Leadership: Drive the vision, planning, and roadmap for OT/IT integration to support business objectives.
• Serve as a primary liaison between executive leadership, engineering, operations, and IT teams. Champion best practices for technology adoption, talent development, and process improvement within the OT/IT domain.
• Team Management and Development: Lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary team of engineers, analysts, and technical specialists. Oversee resource allocation, project prioritization, and performance management to achieve operational excellence. Foster a collaborative culture focused on knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.
• System Architecture Oversight: Supervise the design and evolution of system architectures for OT control systems (e.g., SCADA, DCS, PLCs), ensuring robust integration with IT environments.
• Approve and review high-level architectural decisions and documentation for consistency and alignment with business needs.
• Lifecycle Management & Systems Engineering: Oversee the full lifecycle management of OT systems, from requirements gathering through deployment and ongoing maintenance. Set standards and frameworks for systems engineering across projects to ensure quality and reliability.
• Cybersecurity and Compliance Governance: Lead the implementation and enforcement of cybersecurity frameworks and compliance with industry standards (e.g., NIST, IEC 62443).
• Coordinate audits, risk assessments, and mitigation strategies across OT/IT systems.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Issue Resolution: Act as escalation point for complex technical, operational, or integration challenges, guiding cross-functional troubleshooting efforts. Maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including vendors and regulatory bodies.

The Team

Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes - is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure offering provides specialized engineering capabilities to design, implement, manage, and operate hybrid cloud environments, modernize networks and AI infrastructure from the core to the edge, and incubate new infrastructure and device services to help clients stay ahead with the latest technology advances.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
• Must be able to obtain and maintain the required clearance for this role
• 7+ years in software development and systems engineering, with at least 3 years in a team lead, supervisory, or managerial role

Preferred:

• Demonstrated leadership within OT control systems (e.g., SCADA, DCS, PLCs, RTUs), including oversight of integration with IT environments
• In-depth understanding of IT systems, networking, and protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls, etc.)
• Proven ability to develop and enforce cybersecurity policies in OT/IT settingsSuccess in managing cross-functional teams, project delivery, and stakeholder alignment
• Strong communication, strategic planning, and organizational skills

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Benefits

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Our people and culture

Our inclusive culture empowers our people to be who they are, contribute their unique perspectives, and make a difference individually and collectively. It enables us to leverage different ideas and perspectives, and bring more creativity and innovation to help solve our clients' most complex challenges. This makes Deloitte one of the most rewarding places to work.

Our purpose

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Professional development

From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there's always room to learn. We offer opportunities to build new skills, take on leadership opportunities and connect and grow through mentorship. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their career.

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

Requisition code: 320058

Job ID 320058

Client-provided location(s): Columbus, OH

Job ID: Deloitte-320058

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-12-18T18:54:01