# Staff Engineer OT Digital Systems

Hiring organization: [The Hershey Company](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/the-hershey-company)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/ff138ca3-f416-4389-abb8-5971187c2552

Listed on The Hershey Company's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Staff
- Location: Hershey, PA

## Summary

This role designs and implements industrial data architectures connecting manufacturing systems through unified, real-time data platforms. It suits engineers with deep operational technology experience who can translate factory automation needs into scalable data solutions across control systems, historians, and enterprise platforms.

_Our summary, not The Hershey Company's wording._

## Skills named

Apache Kafka, Data Modeling, Databricks, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), MQTT, PLC, Python, SCADA

## Required

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- 5+ years of industrial data engineering or OT experience
- Unified Namespace and MQTT architecture experience
- HiveMQ, HighByte, or similar platform experience
- Inductive Automation Ignition platform experience
- MES, ERP, and control system integration experience
- Python proficiency
- Pipeline orchestration and transformation tools experience
- ISA-95 and ISA-88 knowledge
- OT data governance experience
- PLC, SCADA, robotics, and factory floor industrial manufacturing technology knowledge

## Nice to have

- AVEVA PI or other historian experience
- Analytics, machine learning, and AI platform familiarity; Databricks preferred
- API and event-driven architecture experience
- Apache Kafka experience
- OT cybersecurity understanding

Apply on The Hershey Company's site: https://careers.thehersheycompany.com/job/Hershey-Staff-Engineer-OT-Digital-Systems-PA-17033/1394173100/