Senior Automation Engineer, Ignition Specialist
SistelGroup is a specialist in industrial automation and digital transformation. We design and deploy process control and plant connectivity solutions, and we integrate systems so that our clients can work more efficiently, more safely and with full traceability.
When you join us, you will work on international projects with advanced Industry 4.0 and digitalization technologies for leading pharmaceutical companies. You will also build your career in a group that covers both industrial automation and digital transformation for the manufacturing industry

We are looking for a Senior Automation Engineer to join our central engineering team. This team designs SCADA and digitalization solutions, writes engineering standards, supports the commercial team on new opportunities, and helps the project teams with difficult technical problems.
You will build Ignition applications, connect them to plant systems and to higher-level systems, and create the standards and reusable components that our project teams use. This is an office-based engineering role.
You will also help the commercial team win new projects: designing the technical solution and architecture, preparing the estimate, and building demonstrations for clients.
Most of our clients work in regulated industries, so well-documented engineering is key.

Perspective and Vision, tags and UDTs, alarms, historian, reports and Gateway configuration.
Write scripts and queries in Python and SQL, and design the databases behind the applications.
Connect PLC and DCS systems (Siemens, Rockwell, Schneider, Omron)



to databases, historians, reports and cloud services.
Set up industrial communications: Design solutions for virtual and container infrastructure, with secure separation between IT and OT networks.
Integrations to MES, ERP, Databases, and other digital manufacturing systems.
Write and maintain our SCADA engineering standards, so that the same approach works on Ignition, Siemens, AVEVA, and more.
Build reusable templates and component libraries that make projects faster and more consistent.
Design technical solutions and prepare estimates for new opportunities, together with the commercial team.
Work on front-end engineering consultation and design for key customers looking to develop their digital foundation.
Help the project teams solve difficult technical problems, and train engineers on our platforms and standards.

Degree in engineering (industrial, automation, electronics, computer science) or equivalent experience.
~5–8 years of experience in industrial automation and SCADA engineering, or in industrial software development.
~ Proven hands-on experience developing Ignition projects: Good Python and SQL skills (SQL Server, PostgreSQL or MySQL).




~ Experience with industrial communication protocols (OPC UA).
~ Experience connecting to PLC systems.
~ Spanish and English, spoken and written.
~ Available for occasional travel to visit clients together with the commercial team.

The following skills are nice-to-have and will support the innovative engineering initiatives at our company.
Ignition Gold Certification or Ignition Core Certification (Inductive Automation).
Development of Ignition projects using MQTT and REST APIs.
Historians and industrial data platforms: Azure cloud certification, or equivalent cloud experience.
Experience in pharmaceutical, chemical or food & beverage manufacturing, and in GMP environments (GAMP 5, 21 CFR Part 11, Annex 11).
Unified Namespace and Sparkplug B data architectures, and edge computing.
Containers and CI/CD (Docker, Kubernetes, Git pipelines).
Data analysis and dashboards (Power BI, Grafana or similar).

A senior role with real technical ownership.
Opportunity to collaborate with Commercial team on front-end consultation and design activities for strategic customers.
Variety: several platforms, several sectors, and projects that are different from each other.
We are a people-oriented company, with special focus on ensuring the best environment for our engineers to work and collaborate.
Visibility across the whole company.
Versátil working hours and hybrid work.

Location: Sant Cugat del Vallès (Barcelona), Spain — hybrid.
Start date: immediate.
Contract: permanent, full-time.

📌 Senior Automation Engineer, Ignition Specialist (Barcelona)
🏢 SistelGroup
📍 Barcelona