Ignition Developer – Industrial & Laboratory Automation
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Ignition Developer building SCADA, laboratory automation, and real-time analytics solutions for a global pharmaceutical company. Integrating PLCs, instruments, databases, and manufacturing platforms.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain Ignition Perspective and Vision applications, SCADA dashboards, operator interfaces, alarming, reporting, and real-time visualization
- Connect Ignition with PLCs, DCS, laboratory instruments, analyzers, robotics, process historians, SQL databases, and enterprise platforms
- Implement recipe-driven workflows, automated sampling and feeding, process orchestration, equipment-state monitoring, and event-driven automation
- Configure and manage Ignition Tags, UDTs, Tag Historian, alarms, security roles, gateway services, and reporting modules
- Develop integrations using OPC UA, MQTT/Sparkplug, REST APIs, SQL, message queues, and file-based interfaces
- Build reusable automation components and maintain source control, code reviews, deployment pipelines, and structured releases
- Troubleshoot gateway, application, database, networking, and integration issues while following industrial cybersecurity standards
- Collaborate with scientists, automation engineers, quality teams, vendors, and system integrators to deliver reliable automation solutions
- Support laboratory digitalization, bioreactor modernization, real-time process monitoring, centralized automation platforms, and integrated manufacturing workflows
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in industrial automation, SCADA, manufacturing systems, or laboratory automation
- Hands-on development experience with Inductive Automation Ignition, including Perspective and/or Vision
- Strong knowledge of Ignition Tag configuration, UDTs, alarming, historization, reporting, gateway administration, security, and scripting
- Strong Python/Jython scripting and SQL skills
- Practical experience integrating systems through OPC UA and technologies such as MQTT/Sparkplug, REST APIs, message queues, or file exchange
- Experience connecting PLCs, DCS, laboratory instruments, analyzers, robotics, or other industrial equipment
- Understanding of industrial networking, secure connectivity, certificates, service accounts, and gateway architecture
- Familiarity with Git, code reviews, CI/CD practices, and structured software releases
- Professional English communication skills
- Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, laboratory, or regulated manufacturing environments
- Understanding of ISA-88, ISA-95, GxP, data integrity, audit trails, Computer System Validation (CSV), and change control
- Experience with DeltaV, process historians, laboratory informatics systems, scientific data platforms, or MES
- Knowledge of time-series data, real-time analytics, store-and-forward architectures, and process monitoring
- Experience with laboratory automation, bioreactors, robotics, or automated manufacturing workflows
- Ignition certification or demonstrably equivalent platform expertise
Benefits:
- Remote work within Europe
- Hybrid work option in Prague
- Immediate start / ASAP engagement
- Freelance contract engagement
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