Data Engineering, Advisor

Southern California Edison (SCE); Rosemead (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern California Edison (SCE) seeks a Data Engineering Advisor to lead strategic data initiatives, enabling Grid modernization, operational intelligence, and data-driven decision making. You will drive Grid Data Platform adoption while guiding its evolution to meet business needs and AI initiatives.

You will design and scale data pipelines, implement data models, and ensure governance across data assets, while aligning technical work with business strategy. This role is hybrid and based in CA.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in CS, IS, Engineering, Statistics or equivalent STEM major.
• 7+ years of experience handling large data sets with transformation, aggregation and filtering.

Responsibilities

• Manage and scale data pipelines from multiple sources to support product launches and maintain data quality across data products.
• Lead data acquisition, extraction, normalization, transformation, management, and manipulation of large, complex data sets.
• Stay current with data engineering, big data, and data science techniques; promote best practices and standards.

Skills

Data processing

ETL pipelines

Big data

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering/Stats or STEM

Job description

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Data Engineering Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll serve as a strategic technical leader responsible for enabling Grid modernization, operational intelligence, data-driven decision making and AI adoption across SCE. Your objective is to drive adoption of the Grid Data Platform while guiding its continuous improvement and evolution to meet SCE’s changing business and technology needs. As a Data Engineering Advisor, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

Responsibilities

• Manages and scales data pipelines from internal and external data sources to support new product launches and drive data quality across data products.
• Facilitates data engineering activities covering data acquisition, extraction, normalization, transformation, management, and manipulation of large and complex data sets.
• Keeps abreast of new and current data engineering, big data and data science techniques. Researches methods, techniques, and new practices; develops and promotes data engineering best practices, standards and guidelines.
• Works closely with subject matter experts to design and develop front-end applications with data models and data pipelines supporting the applications.
• Provides governance and oversight of data assets, data environments and relevant data procedures, with the proactive planning and enforcement of data asset naming conventions.
• Builds and maintains data pipelines using big data processing technologies to process and analyze large datasets; uses ETL processes on the internal cluster.
• Develops and maintains data warehouse schema and data models, ensuring data consistency and accuracy.
• Ensures ongoing alignment of technical and business strategies based on changing business and technology drivers and risks.
• Creates advanced visualizations and tools to provide insight, drives action, and supports work throughout the business.
• Identifies and designs Data-as-a-Service candidates for improved data availability and consumption.
• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Statistics/ Mathematics or equivalent STEM major.
• Seven or more years of experience in data processing large data sets, hands-on with data transformation, aggregation, and filtering.

Preferred Qualifications

• Seven or more years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise-scale data platforms, data lakes, lakehouses, data fabrics, or modern analytics ecosystems.
• Experience leading the architecture, engineering, and operationalization of large-scale data platforms supporting utility, energy, critical infrastructure, or operational technology (OT) environments.
• Experience establishing DataOps, DevSecOps, and CI/CD practices for data engineering teams
• Knowledge of utility regulatory, cybersecurity, and compliance requirements, including NERC-CIP, data privacy, and critical infrastructure protection principles.
• Experience serving as a technical leader for cross-functional initiatives involving Grid Operations, Asset Management, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and enterprise data organizations.

Additional Information

• This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
• Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!
• Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
• The primary work location for this position is Rosemead, CA.
• Position will require up to 20% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.
• This position has been identified as a NERC/CIP impacted position - Prior to being hired, the successful candidate must pass a Personnel Risk Assessment (PRA) or Background Investigation. Once hired, the candidate must complete specified training prior to gaining un-escorted access to assigned work location and performing necessary job duties.

About Southern California Edison

The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.

Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at [e-mail] or [phone] and select option 2.