Data Engineering, Advisor

Southern California Edison; Rosemead, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern California Edison seeks a Data Engineering Advisor to lead the Grid Data Platform, enabling Grid modernization, operational intelligence, data-driven decisions, and AI adoption. You will guide data pipelines, warehouses, and data models while ensuring governance and security.

This hybrid role requires California residence with up to 20% travel across the SCE territory. You will collaborate with Grid Operations, Asset Management, Cybersecurity, IT, and enterprise data teams to implement

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree as listed in the qualifications.
• Seven or more years of experience in data processing large data sets with transformation, aggregation and filtering.

Responsibilities

• Manages and scales data pipelines from multiple sources to support new product launches and drive data quality.
• Facilitates data acquisition, extraction, normalization, transformation, management and manipulation of large data sets.
• Keeps abreast of data engineering techniques and promotes best practices, standards and guidelines.
• Works with subject matter experts to design data models and pipelines for applications.
• Provides governance and oversight of data assets and data environments.

Skills

Data pipelines

Big data

Data engineering

Data governance

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Statistics/ Mathematics or equivalent STEM major

Tools

CI/CD practices

DataOps

DevSecOps

Job description

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become aData 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.