Data Historian Specialist II​/III - Engineering Technical Specialist

Data Historian Specialist II/III – Engineering Technical Specialist

Dominion Energy is committed to providing reliable, affordable, and increasingly clean energy that powers our customers every day. If you want to work for a purpose‑driven company that values safety and collaboration, we’re looking for you. You won’t just find a job here; you’ll find your career.

We offer a hybrid 3‑2 work schedule (three days in the office, two days of teleworking) to accommodate the need for flexibility.

Military service members and veterans with ranks from E5–E9, W1–CW5, or O3–O6, plus appropriate equivalent combination of education and years of experience as outlined will be considered for this opportunity.

We strive to drive power innovation through data.

The nature of the grid is in flux. On the Strategic Initiatives – Operations Analytics team we tackle this challenge to bridge the gap between real‑world system data and the provision of consumable business intelligence that helps steer the future of how we monitor and manage the grid. Our mandate is to capture, curate, utilize, and apply time‑series data, including SCADA and Synchrophasors.

We steward this data and ensure its analysis and outputs provide our business and the industry with the ability to adapt and meet the demands of an evolving energy landscape.

We seek the curious and creative, the self‑motivated, and those driven by the pursuit of driving change.

Our team needs a professional with data historian management and power systems background to advance Electric Transmission and Distribution’s analytic capabilities as we shift to a new data historian platform. Ideal candidates identify problems and solve them with critical thinking while working with a multi‑faceted internal and external team.

Successful candidates focus on:

• Vendor management – working with vendor partners and system integrator personnel to develop project requirements and ensure analytic/application outputs meet customer‑established requirements; also technical project management skills including scoping, scheduling, budget development, cost tracking, and oversight.
• Forging new relationships across the organization in search of applicable use cases to apply time‑series data as a backbone for analysis, decision‑making, and building out solutions.
• Ensuring uptime and proper operation of our current PI system aligns with requirements of future state resources and operation of new data historian.
• Exploring new techniques and features to model time‑series and asset data with both the current and future data historian. Leverage native capabilities and/or use custom development to improve functionality for end users.
• Continuous learning: whether it’s new technologies or growth in our company’s vertical, our most successful team members are those who have an insatiable desire to learn and improve.

The knowledge, skills, abilities and experiences required for entry into this job include the following:

Data Historian Specialist II (ETS II): 2+ years of relevant experience

Data Historian Specialist III (ETS III): 5‑6+ years of relevant experience and demonstrated competencies within time‑series data management and/or power systems.

• In‑depth knowledge of engineering principles, theories and practices. Ability to apply these to complex problems. Preference for knowledge of basic electric power concepts, including electric transmission and distribution, power flow, distributed generation and line protection.
• Effective decision‑making, organization, and problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively, build relationships, and operate independently while aligning to the joint mission of our team. Candidates should devise new approaches to problems encountered and develop engineering criteria ensuring compliance with design criteria and standards.
• Strong oral, written and graphical communication skills including technical writing; ability to identify and use appropriate technical literature.
• Time Series Data Engineering: Understanding of AVEVA PI technology features and related tools. Experience with PI Data Archive, PI SDK, PI AF SDK, PI system…