PI System Senior Advisor; Architect

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Become a PI System Senior Advisor (Architect) at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow.

In this job, you’ll be responsible for providing hands-on, technical leadership within the Power Systems Controls (PSC) group for the PI System (historian). This role should be a recognized expert in solving business problems with the PI System and related analytical technologies. This position works with other team members and business clients to solve business problems through innovative solutions as we modernize the electrical grid through smart grid technologies.

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This range is provided by Southern California Edison (SCE). Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

The PI System is designed and maintained to ensure reliability, performance, integration and scalability of the platform. This includes evaluating new data sources for history management, analytics tools to gain insight from results analyses toward solving business problems and specifying and implementing integration patterns to operationalize results to other systems (e.g. SAP, EMS, DERMS, etc.). This role also ensures that the PI System is maintained at optimized component versions and evaluates the system and vendor changes to ensure cyber security is maintained.

In addition, this role develops technology roadmaps for the PI System platform and its integration with other systems, while planning for its future.

The PI System advisor works collaboratively with other technology architects, corporate business teams and other technical contributors or project sponsors. The advisor also leads the design and support of PI System compliance within our regulated NERC CIP environment. The PI System advisor will collect requirements, prepare designs and implement solutions to the business using the PI System and related analytics technologies using modern, agile techniques for development.

These solutions may include tailoring of the PI System analytics, development of custom or extensions to the PI System using modern technology languages, frameworks and patterns.

The PI System Senior Advisor should be an experienced engineer who supports the historian’s architecture, maintenance and enhancements. This position will support the PI System maintenance team and provide technical leadership and guidance for troubling or recurring maintenance issues when they arise.

As a PI System Senior 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?

• Oversees EMS related activities such as updating databases, displays, operation and maintenance of systems and sub-systems and interfaces with internal and external systems
• Optimizes algorithms, prediction models and an interface with microgrid equipment
• Troubleshoots and resolves complex systems issues to resolution independently, collaboratively with the team, and with vendor engagement
• Collaborates directly with IT maintaining, improving, and implementing communications, and hardware and software infrastructure
• Interprets and implements various supervisory control and data acquisition protocol communications on remote devices and control centers
• Configures and modifies EMS databases and ensures that all telemetry and controls are available and accurate
• Performs complex technical analysis to define customer requirements, identify risks and improve existing solutions
• Maintains and supports system interfacing historical data systems
• Understands and implements various ISO (Independent System Operator) telemetry requirements to support various energy management needs of the customers and maintains grid operator reliability and compliance
• Writes and reviews documentation to describe configuration processes, logic, and test plans. Writes and reviews manuals for users
• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all…