
Principal - Automation Specialist, Business Risk Intelligence
Cummins · Columbus, IN
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Controls
- Degree
- Required (or equivalent experience)
- Experience asked
- 7+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 13 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A senior controls role at Cummins (industrial) in Columbus, IN. Design and implement AI-enabled capabilities that improve intelligence production and business decision support.
- They ask for
- 7+ years · degree required (or equivalent experience)
- Tools it names
- Automation, Casting
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Controls Engineer roles in the US: typical posted base $97k–$140k.
Median of the low and high ends of 300 live postings that list pay, out of 875 controls engineer openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Indiana plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 18 other live controls postings in Indiana.
- Experience asked
- More than usual (7+ vs 5+)
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Automation 84%
- PLC 74%
- Robotics 53%
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 32%
- New product launch 26%
- Team leadership 26%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for Casting, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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This plant: Cummins in Columbus
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Full description from CumminsAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways
- ◆Lead the design, integration, and alignment of cybersecurity technologies and system configurations to ensure solutions meet security, performance, and business requirements.
- ◆Partner with stakeholders across the organization to evaluate needs, develop innovative technology solutions, and drive secure business outcomes.
- ◆Conduct cybersecurity engineering and research initiatives to develop new capabilities and ensure security controls are fully embedded within enterprise systems.
- ◆Design and oversee secure hardware, operating system, and software application architectures that effectively address cybersecurity risks and compliance requirements.
- ◆Manage and coordinate authorized penetration testing activities, ensuring vulnerabilities are identified, assessed, and remediated to strengthen the organization's security posture.
- ◆Drive financial stewardship for the cybersecurity function by contributing to annual operating plans (AOP), budget management, forecasting, purchase orders, and invoice reconciliation.
- ◆Lead, mentor, and develop employees, contractors, and other team members while managing resources to achieve both near-term objectives and long-term strategic goals.
- ◆Foster strong business partnerships and cultivate high-performing teams through performance management, development planning, coaching, and Business Relationship Management practices that deliver measurable business value.
To be successful in this role you will need the following
Security & Compliance Principles - Applies standards, tools, and best practices to embed security, privacy, and compliance into the design/build/test/operate lifecycle for products, services, apps, systems, software, and configurations—balancing protection, efficiency, and cost.
Programming Principles - Applies programming languages, frameworks, and patterns to design, write, configure, test, and maintain software/solutions/systems that are efficient, secure, scalable, and reliable.
Data Principles - Governs, models, secures, implements, and observes data flows to ensure integrity, quality, and compliance—enabling trusted, scalable, cost-conscious data use.
Modern Development Practices - Applies modern engineering practices and tools—such as Agile/DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, and infrastructure as code—to accelerate delivery, improve quality, and reduce risk across the SDLC.
Solution Design - Translate business
requirements
into integrated designs, architectures, patterns, and system interactions that deliver customer value and align with enterprise standards and subject-matter platforms.
System Architecture- Creates and evolves architecture system blueprints developing reusable patterns and roadmaps to ensure scalability, resilience, security, and long-term efficiency.
Demonstrating Mastery - Maintains essential knowledge and proficiency in relevant domains, tools, technologies, methodologies, or frameworks through targeted credentials and rigorous proficiency, future-proofing organizational skills against strategic needs.
Strategic and Innovative Thinking - Evaluates business and technology trends, anticipates future needs, develops creative approaches, and frames innovations to shape strategy and create durable value with cost-aware innovation.
Technical Passion & Drive - Models curiosity and excitement for technology by self-initiating continuous development, experimenting with emerging technologies, and identifying insertion opportunities that accelerate business performance.
Driving Effective Outcomes - Takes ownership, acts with urgency, and initiates action to turn goals into clear plans, decisions, guardrails, and cadences while navigating ambiguity and change to drive momentum and deliver consistent results.
Engaging with Impact - Communicates with clarity and purpose to align stakeholders, foster collaboration, build trust, and influence coordinated action across teams and functions to accelerate outcomes.
Values Differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.
Ensuring Customer Success - Embraces a customer-first mindset to deliver outcomes by linking customer needs and business priorities to aligned solutions, delivery, adoption, satisfaction, and realized value through sustained engagement that builds partnership and trust.
Education, Licenses, Certifications
College, university, or equivalent degree in Computer Science, or Information Technology, or related subject, or relevant equivalent experience required. Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) or similar certification preferred. This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.
Experience
5-7 years of cybersecurity work experience is required. 2 years of experience with Cloud technology and concepts preferred.
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We are looking for a talented Principal- Automation Specialist, Business Risk Intelligence to join our team specializing in Systems/Information Technology for our Corporate organization in Columbus, IN.
Automation Strategy
- •Define and maintain the Business Risk Intelligence (BRI) automation strategy and roadmap.
- •Identify automation opportunities that improve intelligence collection, analysis, reporting, and decision support.
- •Align automation initiatives with enterprise AI strategy, business priorities, and risk management objectives.
Workflow Automation
- •Design and implement automated workflows supporting intelligence collection, risk assessments, executive reporting, and operational processes.
- •Reduce manual effort through workflow orchestration, business process automation, and intelligent task routing.
- •Continuously optimize automation performance, reliability, and scalability.
Artificial Intelligence & Intelligent Automation
- •Design and implement AI-enabled capabilities that improve intelligence production and business decision support.
