Principal Project Engineer

Aspen Technology, Inc.; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

AspenTech in Reading, UK, is seeking a Principal Project Engineer to lead delivery of complex SCADA/EMS/GMS/ADMS solutions using our Digital Grid Management products. You will define architectures, drive technical decisions, and oversee design reviews and FAT/SAT with traceability to requirements.

You will guide project engineers and partners, engage with utility SMEs and project managers, ensure performance, reliability and operability targets, and promote reusable assets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Computer, or Systems Engineering, Physics, or related field.
• Minimum 6+ years in utility operations/dispatch or real-time control systems.
• Experience delivering SCADA/EMS/GMS/ADMS; monarch preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and architecture definition for complex delivery projects.
• Lead FAT/SAT planning, execution, and traceability to requirements.
• Mentor engineers, drive reusable assets, and coordinate with customers and project managers.

Skills

client/server applications

network communications

Linux/Windows

Python

C/C++

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

JSON

XML

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

monarch

Job description

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways - from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.

The Role

We are seeking a Principal Project Engineer to serve as project technical lead delivering complex SCADA/EMS/GMS/ADMS solutions using AspenTech’s Digital Grid Management (DGM) products for utility customers. Experience with monarch is preferred. Your Impact Technical leadership of projects: Define solution architectures and integration approach for assigned project(s); lead technical decisions, design reviews, and quality gates within scope to ensure robust, scalable outcomes. Plan, design, integrate, and validate: Plan and execute detailed design and integration; establish verification approaches and lead Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) and Site Acceptance Testing (SAT) with traceability to requirements. Commissioning & stabilization: Oversee commissioning and cutover plans, perform advanced troubleshooting for complex variances in production environments, and ensure timely deployment of resolutions. Project team guidance: Provide day‑to‑day technical direction to engineers and partners on your projects, promoting reusability and delivery discipline. Customer & stakeholder engagement: Work directly with utility SMEs and project managers to refine requirements, manage technical changes, and ensure performance, reliability, and operability targets are met. Engineering excellence: Apply and uphold established standards for configuration management, environment readiness, and documentation; contribute improvements and reusable assets. Enablement & knowledge sharing: Mentor peers, assist with training materials, and share best practices within the project team and local group. Strategic pre‑sales engagement: On an as‑needed basis, provide technical validation of delivery approaches and limited support for customer evaluations/demos on priority pursuits.

What You'll Need

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or related field. Minimum of 6+ years of relevant experience in utility operations/dispatch, real-time control systems, or mission‑critical OT/IT integration, with a track record of serving as project technical lead on complex deliveries. Experience delivering systems across SCADA/EMS/GMS/ADMS; monarch experience is preferred. Hands‑on depth with client/server applications, network communications, and Linux/Windows; familiarity with programming/scripting (e.g., Python, C/C++) and databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Mongo, Cassandra); experience with JSON and XML. Practical experience with common utility protocols and standards (e.g., ICCP, DNP3, IEC 60870‑5‑101/104, IEC 61850, MultiSpeak). Excellent organization, interpersonal, and leadership skills within project teams; able to manage multiple workstreams in fast‑paced environments; strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities. Ability to travel up to approximately 20%.

Work arrangement

Hybrid; primary office Reading, UK.

AspenTech is a global software leader helping industries meet the increasing demand for resources from a rapidly growing population in a profitable and sustainable manner. Our Digital Grid Management software suite, including AspenTech OSI products, helps power and utilities companies achieve superior real‑time control, optimization and management for exceptional performance of complex energy networks. If you're looking to make a difference every day and push the limits of performance, AspenTech is doing things no one else thought was possible. As a leading industrial software partner, we help companies all over the world run safer, greener, longer and faster. With over 3700 employees and more than 60 global locations, AspenTech is meeting today's sustainability and business challenges head‑on with unmatched expertise, cutting‑edge AI‑powered technology and a passion to innovate.

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