Principal, Data Engineer - Reliability Data

PG&E; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

PG&E, based in Oakland, seeks a senior reliability data engineer/architect to define technical vision and lead enterprise data capabilities for reliability and resilience strategies.

You will oversee design and governance of data pipelines, ensuring auditability, metadata, and regulatory alignment while guiding cross-functional teams and senior leadership through strategic data initiatives.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in Computer Science, MIS, or related field.
• Ten years of experience with multiple data engineering/ETL ecosystems (Palantir Foundry, Spark, Informatica, SAP BODS, OBIEE).
• Experience with multiple data engineering/ETL ecosystems.
• Proven track record of implementing data warehouses/data lakes in past five years.
• Experience leading development teams.
• Three years of experience in ML deployment and MLOps.
• Master's degree in CS/MIS or related field is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams to tackle complex data and analytics problems with broad impact.
• Contribute to solving uniquely complex data and analytics challenges.
• Provide thought leadership on scalable data infrastructure with verified data quality and metadata.
• Partner with business and other departments to gather requirements for cross-functional systems.
• Mentor and guide less experienced colleagues.
• Communicate recommendations effectively (oral and written).
• Drive development of departmental standards and new goals.

Skills

Team leadership

Data governance

Mentoring

Communication

Big data analytics

Data strategy

Education

BA/BS in Computer Science or MIS

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Apache Spark

Informatica

SAP BODS

OBIEE

Job description

Requisition ID# 172441

Job Category: Information Technology

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Strategy & Growth

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

The System Performance, Reliability and Resiliency Strategy team within the overall Electric Transmission and Distribution Engineering organization is responsible for planning, organizing, and managing the resources necessary to successfully execute PG&E's Electric Reliability Strategy and initiatives. Within this department the Reliability Data team is on point for a key role is developing and curating all reliability data and data pipelines so that they meet auditable standards.

Position Summary

Serves as a recognized industry expert in reliability data engineering and analytics, leading the design, governance, and advancement of enterprise data capabilities that underpin PG&E's reliability and resilience strategy. Defines the technical vision and establishes industry-leading practices for the development, integration, and management of reliability data and data pipelines, ensuring data integrity, auditability, and readiness for critical operational, regulatory, and strategic use.

Leads the architecture and delivery of advanced, scalable data solutions that integrate complex, multi-source datasets to support reliability performance assessment, risk modeling, and long-term grid planning. Establishes and enforces rigorous standards for data transformation, metadata management, and data lineage, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and alignment with enterprise data governance frameworks. Drives innovation in data engineering approaches to enhance transparency, traceability, and decision-quality across the organization.

Acts as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, providing expert guidance on data strategy, data risk, and reliability performance insights. Influences enterprise decision-making by ensuring data solutions effectively support PG&E's Electric Reliability Strategy and investment priorities. Builds and maintains strong relationships with internal stakeholders, external partners, and industry organizations, and represents PG&E in technical forums and standards bodies, contributing to the advancement of best practices in reliability data management and analytics.

This position follows a hybrid work model, requiring employees to report to their assigned office location at least two or three days per week. The remaining days may be worked remotely, depending on business needs. The headquarters is located in the Oakland General Office.

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company, in good faith, believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the job's locality. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, particular skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, collective bargaining agreements, and internal equity. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed toward the middle or entry point of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis based on these factors. This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E's discretionary incentive compensation programs.

A reasonable salary range is:

Bay Area Minimum: $155,000

Bay Area Mid-Point: $210,000

Bay Area Maximum: $265,000

Job Responsibilities

• Forms and leads teams to focus on complex data and analytics-centric problems with broad and significant impacts requiring in-depth analysis and judgment to obtain results or solutions.
• Contributes to resolving uniquely complex data and analytics-centric problems that have a significant impact.
• Provides thought leadership on infrastructure that allows big data to be accessed and analyzed with verified data quality and metadata appropriately captured and cataloged.
• Partners with the business and other departments to develop requirements and apply them to create complex cross-functional systems.
• Assists other programmers/analysts on unusual or complex problems that cross multiple functional/technology areas.
• Works closely with other departments on cross-team work needs/requirements.
• Drives the development of departmental standards, norms, and new goals/objectives.
• Communicates (oral and written) recommendations.
• Mentors/guides less experienced colleagues.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, related field of study, or equivalent experience.
• Ten years of experience with multiple data engineering/ETL ecosystems such as Palantir Foundry, Spark, Informatica, SAP BODS, and OBIEE.
• Experience with multiple data engineering/ETL ecosystems.
• Proven track record of successfully implementing data warehouses/data lakes over the previous five years.
• Experience leading development teams.
• Three years of experience in machine learning algorithm deployment and machine learning operations.

Desired:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent experience.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Competencies:

• Business Intelligence and data access tool expertise.
• Knowledge of software engineering principles such as unit testing, CI/CD, and source control.