Senior AVEVA PI Systems Engineer

Invenergy; South Dakota; On-site; USD 125,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Invenergy is seeking a seasoned OT systems specialist with deep AVEVA PI experience to administer, integrate, and evolve PI data infrastructures across SCADA, DCS, RTU, and PLC sources. You will lead architecture improvements, automation efforts, and cross-team collaboration to ensure reliable data availability for control centers.

The role emphasizes enterprise PI System administration, API interfaces, and scalable data pipelines, with collaboration across IT and operations.

Qualifications

• Five or more years administering enterprise-scale AVEVA PI environments, including Data Archives and AF.
• Understanding of TCP/IP networking concepts and troubleshooting communication issues.
• Proficiency with programming and scripting languages such as .NET, PowerShell, and Python

Responsibilities

• Act as the subject matter expert for OT systems, with a primary focus on the AVEVA PI System and data integrations.
• Configure and maintain data collection into the AVEVA PI System from OT platforms, including SCADA, DCS, RTUs, and PLCs.
• Investigate, evaluate, and integrate complex or unfamiliar OT systems with the AVEVA PI System.
• Administer and support AVEVA PI components including PI Data Archive, PI Collectives, AF, Interfaces, Connectors, Adapters, AVEVA Connect, PI Web API, and PI Vision.
• Lead efforts to improve PI System architecture, data integrations, and platform reliability.
• Coordinate with IT to implement infrastructure upgrades, patching, and maintenance activities
• Design scalable and maintainable workarounds for system limitations.
• Prepare technical and business justifications for infrastructure modernization and expansion.
• Develop automation for system maintenance and custom telemetry feeds to third parties using Python, PowerShell, and .NET.
• Lead investigation and resolution of complex PI System issues affecting performance, reliability, and data availability.
• Maintain technical documentation for implemented solutions and integrations.
• Support Operations Engineering through data pipelines, integrations, and automation solutions.
• Maintain real-time data collection infrastructure in support of control center operations.
• Lead onboarding activities for new project startups, including point definition and stakeholder coordination.
• Provide mentorship to junior team members.

Tools

AVEVA PI System

PI Data Archive

PI Collectives

PI Asset Framework (AF)

PI Vision

PI Web API

.NET

PowerShell

Python

Job description

Invenergy is seeking a seasoned OT systems specialist with deep AVEVA PI experience to administer, integrate, and evolve PI data infrastructures across SCADA, DCS, RTU, and PLC sources. You will lead architecture improvements, automation efforts, and cross-team collaboration to ensure reliable data availability for control centers.

The role emphasizes enterprise PI System administration, API interfaces, and scalable data pipelines, with collaboration across IT and operations.