Execution Systems-Eng

Cognizant; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant in Chennai is seeking an Execution Systems Engineer focusing on AVEVA PI Historian to design, implement and maintain robust data collection and analytics solutions for manufacturing and supply chain environments, in a hybrid day-shift model.

The role emphasizes reliable data capture, tagging, interfaces, event frames, and developing PI-based dashboards and reports to support global stakeholders and drive actionable insights.

Qualifications

• 4–8 years of hands-on experience in execution systems engineering with AVEVA PI Historian.
• Proficiency in configuring tags, interfaces, asset structures, and event frames in AVEVA PI.
• Understanding of manufacturing or supply chain processes reflected in system configurations and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure and maintain AVEVA PI Historian solutions to capture operation data for enterprise decision making.
• Implement data acquisition interfaces from shop floor devices into AVEVA PI Historian with proper tagging and time stamping.
• Optimize data models, tag structures and calculations for better query performance and consistency.

Skills

AVEVA PI Historian

Tag configuration

Dashboards

Tools

AVEVA PI

Job description

Job Title

Execution Systems-Eng

Job Summary

Contribute as an Execution Systems Engineer focusing on AVEVA PI Historian to design implement and maintain robust data collection and analytics solutions for manufacturing and supply chain environments working in a hybrid day shift model to assure high system reliability actionable insights and measurable value for global stakeholders.

Experience

4 - 8 years

Required Skills

Technical Skills: AVEVA PI Historian Domain Skills:

Nice to have skills

Domain Skills:Manufacturing and Supply Chain

Technology

Custom Service

Shift

Day

Responsibilities

• Design configure and maintain AVEVA PI Historian solutions that reliably capture operational data from diverse manufacturing systems and equipment to support high quality decision making across the enterprise.
• Implement robust data acquisition interfaces from shop floor devices and plant systems into AVEVA PI Historian while ensuring accurate tagging time stamping and contextualization for downstream analytics uses.
• Optimize data models tag structures and calculation strategies within AVEVA PI Historian to improve query performance reporting flexibility and consistency of operational intelligence across plants.
• Collaborate with manufacturing and supply chain teams to translate process requirements into technical specifications for historian configuration event frames and data views that clearly reflect real world operations.
• Develop test and deploy PI based dashboards trends and reports that enable operations engineering and planning teams to monitor performance indicators and quickly identify process deviations.
• Troubleshoot data flow connectivity performance and configuration issues in AVEVA PI environments and coordinate with infrastructure teams to restore normal operations with minimal downtime.
• Document system architectures interface details configuration standards and operating procedures to support maintainability knowledge sharing and compliance with internal governance.
• Coordinate change implementation activities for historian related enhancements by performing impact analysis preparing test plans and executing changes during planned maintenance windows in the day shift.
• Engage with stakeholders in manufacturing and supply chain functions to continuously identify opportunities for new historian use cases that enhance throughput quality energy efficiency and asset utilization.
• Apply secure configuration practices and access controls for AVEVA PI components to protect sensitive operational data while enabling appropriate visibility for global functional teams.
• Support hybrid work arrangements by using remote access tools and collaboration platforms to monitor systems perform configuration updates and provide timely incident resolution without requiring travel.
• Align daily activities with company sustainability and efficiency goals by enabling data driven insights that help reduce waste optimize resource consumption and improve service levels to customers.
• Participate in periodic system health checks capacity reviews and upgrade planning for historian infrastructure to ensure scalability and readiness for future digital initiatives.

Qualifications

• Possess professional experience of four to eight years in execution systems engineering or closely related industrial data roles with significant hands on work in AVEVA PI Historian environments.
• Demonstrate strong proficiency in configuring tags interfaces asset structures and event frames in AVEVA PI along with practical skills in designing trends displays and performance dashboards.
• Bring applied knowledge of manufacturing or supply chain processes so that system configurations calculations and visualizations accurately reflect production flows inventory movements and quality controls.
• Show familiarity with common shop floor systems such as distributed control programmable controllers or manufacturing applications enabling effective integration with historian data acquisition components.
• Exhibit capability to analyze complex technical issues break them into manageable tasks and communicate clear resolution steps to both technical peers and nontechnical stakeholders in hybrid work settings.
• Display solid understanding of data quality concepts including validation reconciliation and exception handling so that historian based reports and analytics can be trusted by business users.
• Highlight any exposure to related analytics tools scripting or reporting platforms that complement historian capabilities and support advanced performance monitoring in manufacturing and supply chain operations.

Job Location

Primary Location :INTNCHNA10(ITIND MEPZ (TBM) SDB 1 -4 SEZ) Alternate Location :NA NA Alternate Location 1 :NA NA

Job Type

Execution Systems-Eng [65SG05]

Demand Requires Travel?

No

Certifications Required

NA