Senior AVEVA PI Systems Engineer: Data Historian Lead

Seneca Resources; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Seneca Resources seeks an experienced Senior AVEVA PI Systems Engineer to architect, administer, integrate, support, and enhance a large-scale AVEVA PI System supporting critical Electric, Gas, and Steam Control Center operations in New York. The role is hands-on, operating in highly available OT environments with 24x7 support responsibilities.

You will manage PI Data Archive, AF, Vision, Analytics, Notifications, Event Frames, interfaces, and dashboards, while developing integrations and

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience administering and supporting AVEVA/OSIsoft PI System environments.
• Advanced experience with PI Data Archive, PI Asset Framework (AF), PI Vision, PI Asset Analytics, PI Notifications, and Event Frames.
• Experience implementing and supporting high availability and disaster recovery for PI Data Archive, PI AF, and PI Vision.
• Strong experience configuring and troubleshooting PI interfaces, including PI DNP3, PI-to-PI, OPC DA/UA, RDBMS, and related PI interfaces.
• Experience with PI Integrator for Business Analytics.
• Strong PowerShell scripting and automation capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, enhance, and optimize a large-scale enterprise AVEVA PI environment with 1.5+ million PI tags.
• Architect and support PI Data Archive, PI Asset Framework, and PI Vision environments.
• Implement and maintain high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions for PI Data Archive, PI AF, and PI Vision.
• Develop and maintain PI AF Element Templates, AF Elements, Asset Analytics, Notifications, and Event Frames.
• Develop and support PI-based visualization and dashboard solutions using PI Vision and related technologies.
• Monitor PI infrastructure health, availability, capacity, and performance to ensure continuous availability of critical operational systems.
• Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex PI application and infrastructure issues.
• Configure, administer, troubleshoot, and enhance PI interfaces and integrations, including OPC DA/UA, PI-to-PI, RDBMS, DNP3, and PI API-based integrations.
• Support PI Integrator for Business Analytics and the delivery of PI data to enterprise analytics platforms.
• Integrate AVEVA PI with enterprise business, analytics, operational, SCADA, and Control Center systems.
• Design reliable data flows between operational systems and enterprise applications while maintaining appropriate security and availability.
• Develop and support API and adapter-based integrations as required.
• Design and develop custom PI solutions using PI SDK, AF SDK, PI OLEDB, PowerShell, APIs, and related PI System Access technologies.
• Develop applications and integrations using C#, .NET, Visual Studio, SQL, SSIS, and PowerShell.
• Develop PI dashboards, business-intelligence reports, and specialized applications supporting operational and business requirements.
• Develop and support Microsoft Power BI reporting and analytics solutions utilizing operational data.
• Automate recurring administration, monitoring, integration, and support activities using PowerShell and related technologies.
• Design, code, test, deploy, and support enhancements to Control Center applications.
• Ensure continuous availability of PI Historian infrastructure supporting Electric, Gas, and Steam Control Center operations.
• Implement system enhancements, monitor server and application health, and proactively address availability and performance issues.
• Develop, maintain, test, and periodically update disaster-recovery procedures and documentation for PI and associated operational systems.
• Support integrations and dependencies involving systems such as SCADA and outage-management platforms.
• Participate in scheduled 24x7x365 support coverage, responding to alerts and production incidents to restore critical application availability.
• Apply a strong operational mindset to physical safety, cybersecurity, system resilience, and production reliability.

Skills

PI System Admin

PI Data Archive

PI AF

PI Vision

PI Analytics

PI Notifications

Event Frames

PI Interfaces

PowerShell scripting

C#, .NET

Root-cause analysis

Technical documentation

24x7 support

Tools

PI SDK

AF SDK

PI OLEDB

APIs

Job description

Seneca Resources seeks an experienced Senior AVEVA PI Systems Engineer to architect, administer, integrate, support, and enhance a large-scale AVEVA PI System supporting critical Electric, Gas, and Steam Control Center operations in New York. The role is hands-on, operating in highly available OT environments with 24x7 support responsibilities.

You will manage PI Data Archive, AF, Vision, Analytics, Notifications, Event Frames, interfaces, and dashboards, while developing integrations and