SCADA Solutions Analyst III​/IV

Overview

At Williams, we’re powering a cleaner, more connected future. Your work fuels communities, drives innovation, and helps deliver reliable energy. Join a Fortune 500 team that invests in growth, values contributions, and challenges you to make a lasting impact every day.

As SCADA Analyst IV, you will collaborate with business partners to identify requirements and translate those into SCADA system requirements and logical/functional designs for SCADA solutions. Maintaining focus on continuous improvement and implementing lean processes will improve performance and safety. The ability to tackle sophisticated problems and communicate effectively with all levels of the organization is key to success.

• Solves complex problems, taking a broad perspective to identify innovative SCADA solutions
• Provides technical leadership within a wider team; mentors other team members
• Ensures projects are completed on schedule
• Analyzes requirements and develops short- and long-term SCADA solutions to meet business needs
• Coordinates with internal users and external customers to understand SCADA requirements and provide appropriate solutions
• Recommends SCADA solutions based on business requirements within an enterprise organization
• Designs and supports OT data pipelines by integrating SCADA, ACM, Kepware, MQTT/Sparkplug B, HiveMQ, and edge technologies to deliver reliable operational data to enterprise platforms
• Optimizes OT data quality and availability through troubleshooting, monitoring, and performance tuning of polling engines, communication channels, edge devices, and data flows
• Develops and maintains OT data solutions that transform, validate, and contextualize operational data for reporting, analytics, machine learning, and business decision-making
• Collaborates across Operations, Engineering, OT, and IT teams to identify requirements, implement data solutions, and drive standardization and automation initiatives
• Other duties as assigned

• Required:
  
  Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of eight (8) years’ experience in a SCADA or team leadership role, with experience in ClearSCADA, Auto Sol, Kepware, and OPC protocol

• Demonstrates excellent organizational/interpersonal skills and safety as a priority
• Strong knowledge of SCADA and industrial communication protocols, including OPC, Modbus, DNP3, MQTT, and related OT systems
• Experience with enterprise data platforms and analytics tools, including Databricks, SQL, Python, Power BI, and cloud-based data architectures
• Ability to diagnose and resolve complex OT data issues, including data quality problems, communication failures, and system integration challenges
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills with the ability to translate operational requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office applications and PC skills
• Demonstrates knowledge of network operations and telecommunications
• Extensive SQL experience and capabilities
• Understanding of various Flow Computer Protocols
• Experience in the energy industry
• Preferred:
  Windows programming experience (Python, VBScript, Ladder Logic)
• Preferred:
  Experience in database development and management