IoT Architect Lead Specialist

Job Title: IoT Architect Lead Specialist
Location: Nashua New Hampshire
Experience Required: 12 Years
Employment Type: Contract
Interview Type: In-Person or Webcam

We are seeking a highly experienced IoT Architect Lead Specialist to guide the design development integration and optimization of IoT solutions across enterprise environments. The ideal candidate brings deep technical leadership strong architectural vision and hands-on experience in building scalable secure IoT platforms. This role involves working closely with cross-functional engineering teams stakeholders and external partners to deliver reliable and innovative IoT solutions that support business goals.

• Lead end-to-end architecture design for large-scale IoT systems including edge devices connectivity layers cloud platforms and data pipelines.

• Define IoT solution blueprints reference architectures integration patterns and technical standards.

• Collaborate with product engineering and business teams to identify requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

• Oversee implementation and integration of IoT platforms such as AWS IoT Azure IoT Hub Google Cloud IoT or equivalent.

• Drive security architecture for authentication encryption device provisioning and secure communication.

• Evaluate new IoT technologies protocols devices and platforms to support product innovation.

• Provide technical leadership mentoring and architectural direction across engineering teams.

• Optimize performance reliability and scalability of IoT infrastructure and data management systems.

• Lead PoC initiatives prototype development system testing and service deployments.

• Ensure compliance with regulatory standards best practices and enterprise security frameworks.

• Troubleshoot architecture and deployment issues and support continuous improvement.

• 12 years of experience in designing and implementing IoT platforms distributed systems or cloud-connected devices.

• Strong expertise with IoT protocols such as MQTT CoAP AMQP BLE Zigbee LoRaWAN RFID or Modbus.

• Hands-on experience with cloud IoT services (AWS IoT Core Azure IoT Hub GCP IoT Core or similar).

• Solid background in microservices architecture API design and message streaming platforms such as Kafka.

• Strong knowledge of embedded systems edge computing sensor networks and real-time data processing.

• Proficiency with programming languages such as Python C/C Go Java or .

• Experience with IoT security frameworks device identity management and secure firmware updates.

• Understanding of networking wireless communication technologies and device provisioning.

• Familiarity with data pipelines analytics time-series databases and AI/ML integration.

• Proven leadership skills and ability to manage technical teams and solution delivery.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Experience working in manufacturing industrial automation energy healthcare or smart infrastructure environments.

• Knowledge of IoT standards and frameworks such as OPC UA ISA-95/IEC-62443 or Digital Twin technologies.

• Certification in AWS/Azure/GCP cloud architecture or IoT solutions.