Solution Architect / Lead EBO Engineer – Building Automation Systems
Location: Greater Toronto Area / Mississauga, Ontario
Work Model: Primarily On-Site / In-Office + Project Site Travel
Employment Type: Full-Time / Project-Based
About the Opportunity
Our Client is an established technology and systems integration organization supporting commercial, institutional, industrial, mission-critical, and enterprise environments.
Our Client is seeking an experienced Solution Architect / Lead EBO Engineer to serve as the senior technical authority for a complex Building Automation System modernization and migration program.
The role will define and guide the overall Enterprise Building Operation (EBO) solution architecture, including Enterprise Server and Edge Server strategy, system hierarchy, redundancy, network and integration architecture, historian integration, technical standards, and migration methodology.
The successful candidate will provide technical leadership across the project, review major findings from engineering and field teams, resolve complex design and integration issues, and ensure the target BAS architecture is scalable, maintainable, reliable, and suitable for long-term operation.
This position is intended for a senior BAS professional with substantial hands-on EBO experience combined with strong system architecture, controls integration, migration, and technical leadership capabilities.
What You’ll Do
- Serve as the primary technical authority for the Enterprise Building Operation (EBO) solution and overall BAS architecture.
- Define EBO architecture, system hierarchy, server relationships, communications, integration boundaries, and deployment strategy across Enterprise Servers, Edge Servers, supervisory controllers, field controllers, and connected BAS infrastructure.
- Establish campus-wide and multi-building architecture, including redundancy, resilience, failover, availability, recovery, network segmentation, BACnet routing, BBMD requirements, and communication paths.
- Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, design criteria, technical standards, and engineering documentation.
- Establish consistent standards for engineering, configuration, naming, networking, databases, graphics, alarming, trending, and integrations.
- Define migration strategy and sequencing from legacy BAS environments, including controllers, databases, graphics, trends, alarms, programs, integrations, and other BAS assets.
- Review existing BAS environments and identify technical constraints, dependencies, modernization requirements, and migration risks.
- Review findings from BACnet assessments, field investigations, QA/QC, commissioning, and other technical specialists, and determine architectural or migration impacts.
- Resolve complex BAS, BACnet, server, controller, network, database, communications, and integration issues across multiple buildings, manufacturers, and system layers.
- Define Enterprise Server and Edge Server strategy, including allocation of functionality and system responsibilities.
- Define and review third-party equipment, gateway, historian, analytics, building, energy, enterprise, and OT integration requirements.
- Establish historian, trending, data-retention, historical-migration, reporting, and external data-interface strategies.
- Review controls sequences, network diagrams, engineering documents, technical submittals, and significant design changes for alignment with the target architecture.
- Provide technical direction to Project Managers, EBO engineers, programmers, Controls Specialists, technicians, field teams, commissioning personnel, IT/OT stakeholders, vendors, and customer representatives.
- Establish repeatable engineering and migration standards across buildings and project phases.
- Support cutover planning, commissioning, testing, validation, production deployment, and technical acceptance.
- Define migration and system-transition readiness criteria, review major deficiencies, support root-cause analysis, and determine corrective actions.
- Identify architectural risks, document significant technical decisions and deviations, and support as-built documentation, migration records, standards, and knowledge transfer.
What We’re Looking For
Candidates should bring deep experience with Building Automation Systems and Enterprise Building Operation, together with the ability to think beyond individual controllers or buildings and design solutions at the broader system level.
Candidates should have:
- Extensive hands-on experience with Enterprise Building Operation (EBO).
- Strong understanding of EBO system architecture and deployment in large or complex environments.
- Experience designing or supporting Enterprise Server-based architectures.
- Experience with EBO Edge Servers or comparable supervisory/server architecture.
- Strong understanding of BAS server, controller, network, database, and field-level architecture.
- Advanced knowledge of BACnet/IP and BACnet MS/TP.
- Strong understanding of BACnet routing, BBMDs, network segmentation, addressing, device instances, and communications.
- Experience designing or troubleshooting multi-building BAS networks.
- Strong knowledge of BAS integration architecture and third-party system integration.
- Experience developing technical standards and system architecture requirements.
- Strong understanding of controls sequences, programming, alarming, trending, graphics, and system databases.
- Experience with BAS migration, modernization, major retrofit, or platform replacement projects.
- Ability to evaluate legacy environments and develop practical migration strategies.
- Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills across software, controls, networks, servers, and integration layers.
- Ability to interpret system architecture diagrams, network drawings, control drawings, sequences of operation, specifications, and technical submittals.
- Ability to make technical decisions involving multiple systems and competing project requirements.
- Strong technical documentation and communication skills.
- Ability to provide technical direction to engineers, programmers, technicians, and other specialists.
- Ability to communicate complex technical issues clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred Experience
The following experience would be particularly valuable:
- Architecture or lead engineering responsibility for large-scale EBO deployments.
- Multi-building, campus-wide, enterprise, or distributed BAS environments.
- EBO migration from legacy Schneider Electric platforms or other BAS technologies.
- Large-scale BAS modernization or controls replacement programs.
- Enterprise Server and distributed server architecture.
- Edge Server deployment and integration.
- BAS historian or enterprise data integration.
- Integration between EBO and energy management, analytics, reporting, or other enterprise platforms.
- BACnet network architecture and troubleshooting.
- Integration of multiple BAS manufacturers and third-party devices.
- Critical environment experience, including data centres, healthcare facilities, laboratories, pharmaceutical facilities, manufacturing, utilities, or similarly operationally sensitive environments.
- High-availability or redundant controls architecture.
- Brownfield migration where existing facilities must remain operational during system transition.
- Technical design authority, solution architecture, lead engineer, or senior controls engineering responsibilities.
- Commissioning and functional performance testing of complex BAS environments.
Experience & Education
- Engineering degree, engineering technology diploma, building automation qualification, electrical/mechanical/electronics education, or equivalent combination of technical training and industry experience.
- 5+ years of Building Automation / Controls experience is preferred.
- Hands-on EBO engineering experience.
- Experience serving as a Lead Engineer, Solution Architect, Technical Lead, Senior Controls Engineer, or equivalent is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated experience designing or technically leading complex BAS integration or migration projects is highly preferred.
- Candidates should be capable of independently reviewing complex technical conditions and providing clear architecture and engineering direction.
Additional Requirements
- Must be legally eligible to work in Canada without employer sponsorship.
- Able to attend customer and project sites as required.
- Ability to travel as project requirements dictate.
- A valid driver’s licence may be required depending on project assignments.
- Some migration, cutover, testing, or commissioning activities may require work outside normal business hours.
Compensation & Benefits
Our Client offers competitive compensation based on the successful candidate’s EBO expertise, controls engineering background, architecture experience, and level of technical responsibility.
Additional benefits and programs may include:
- Comprehensive employee benefits
- Professional and technical development
- Training and certification opportunities
- A safety-focused work environment
- Exposure to complex BAS modernization and integration projects
- Opportunities for continued advancement within solution architecture, engineering, technical leadership, and project delivery
How to Apply
If you are a passionate sales professional with a background in security systems or technology and enjoy creating long-lasting customer relationships, we’d love to hear from you.
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