Work Model:

Primarily In office / 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 E

📌 Solution Architect (Winnipeg)
🏢 Potenco
📍 Winnipeg