Principal Systems Development & Analytics Engineer

At NAES, you’ll find engaging and challenging career opportunities in the power generation, renewable energy and industrial construction industry. At every level of the company, we share a common goal:
To instill confidence in our clients through our steadfast commitment to safety, integrity and quality of work.

As the largest independent operator of power facilities in the industry, we’ve come to be viewed as an employer of choice. We strive to attract and retain employees by offering competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits package (including retirement) and promotional opportunities.

The Principal Systems Development & Analytics Engineer is a senior technical leadership role within NAES Technologies’ Centralized Analytics and Automation Team (CAAT). Responsible for architecting, building, deploying, and continuously operating the systems that remove recurring labor, reduce operational risk, and enforce system-level controls across NAES’s power generation, renewables, industrial services, and centralized monitoring portfolios.

Own production operational systems that sit at the intersection of telemetry ingestion, alarm management, automation logic, CMMS integration, and operational analytics. The work directly affects cost-to-serve, dispatch behavior, technician utilization, cybersecurity posture, audit defensibility, and customer trust.

As a principal-level engineer, set technical direction, establish engineering standards for CAAT, and serve as the primary authority on how operational automation is designed, enforced, and sustained over time. Success is measured by cost permanently removed, manual workflows eliminated, and controls that remain effective without ongoing human intervention.

• Accountable for the end-to-end design and operation of NAES’s operational automation and analytics layer. This includes defining the technical architecture for telemetry ingestion, data normalization, event processing, and downstream system integration, and ensuring those systems operate reliably in production
• Lead the design and implementation of confidence-based alarm logic, time-based validation, event correlation, and suppression mechanisms that distinguish true failures from transient or low-confidence conditions. These decisions are embedded directly into operational workflows and enforced programmatically, not surfaced solely as dashboards or alerts
• A central responsibility is deep integration with CMMS platforms and work management systems, enabling automated creation, cancellation, prioritization, and routing of work orders based on fault probability, duration, asset criticality, and operational context. Ensure that automation logic is auditable, deterministic, and aligned with operational and contractual requirements
• Own operational analytics and KPIs that replace manual reporting and reconciliation, including MTTR, MTBF, alarm recurrence, dispatch avoidance, technician utilization, and cost-to-serve metrics by asset, site, customer, and portfolio. These analytics are system-generated and designed to drive action, not retrospective reporting
• From a governance and cybersecurity standpoint, the Principal Engineer designs and enforces system-level controls for customer onboarding and offboarding, telemetry ingestion boundaries, logical access enforcement, configuration management, and decision logging. This work directly supports audit readiness, cybersecurity reviews, and customer security assessments by replacing informal human compensating controls with programmatic enforcement
• Play a key role in mentoring other CAAT engineers, reviewing designs and code, and establishing best practices for reliability, scalability, and maintainability. While this role does not have formal people management responsibility, it provides clear technical leadership and accountability
• Where appropriate and approved, the role supports controlled, customer-facing analytics and automation engagements, leveraging internal frameworks to deliver scoped, outcome-based solutions for NAES customers. External work remains secondary to internal mandates and is governed to ensure it does not compromise…