Data Historian Specialist II/III - Engineering Technical Specialist

Dominion Energy•GLEN ALLEN, VA

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

Dominion Energy is seeking a professional with a background in data historian management and power systems to join the Strategic Initiatives - Operations Analytics team. This team bridges the gap between real-world system data and business intelligence to help steer the future of grid monitoring and management. The role involves the capture, curation, utilization, and application of time-series data, including SCADA and Synchrophasors. The ideal candidate will be curious, creative, self-motivated, and driven by the pursuit of driving change. The position focuses on vendor management, identifying use cases for time series data, ensuring the uptime and operation of the current PI system, exploring new techniques for modeling time-series and asset data, and continuous learning. The company offers a hybrid 3-2 work schedule (three days in the office, two days of teleworking).

Requirements

Data Historian Specialist II: 2+ years of relevant experience.
Data Historian Specialist 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 engineering theories and concepts to complex problems.
Effective decision-making, organization, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to communicate effectively, build relationships, and operate independently while aligning to the joint mission of the team.
Strong oral, written and graphical communication skills including technical writing.
Ability to identify and use appropriate technical literature.
Understanding of AVEVA PI technology features (PI Data Archive, PI SDK, PI AF SDK, PI system administrator, and Visual Studio .NET) or experience with other time series data.
A history of implementing technology within an engineering field is a must.
Must be able to meet NERC qualifications.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of basic electric power concepts, including electric transmission and distribution, power flow, distributed generation and line protection.
Power systems acumen.
Proficiency in analyzing and evaluating systems, equipment, and programs.
Strong analytic skills.
History of using programmatic languages to create data analyses and visualizations.
Proficiency in developing tools including but not limited to Python, C#, Advanced Excel, and SQL.

Responsibilities

Work with vendor partners and system integrator personnel to develop project requirements and ensure analytic/application outputs meet stated objectives.
Perform technical project management including scoping, scheduling, budget development, cost tracking, and oversight.
Identify applicable use cases to apply time series data as a backbone for analysis, decision-making, and building out solutions.
Ensure uptime and proper operation of the current PI system, aligning to requirements of future state resources and operation of new data historian.
Explore new techniques and features to model time-series and asset data with both the current and future data historian.
Leverage native capabilities and/or utilize custom development to improve functionality for end users.
Ensure the proper guidance of business requirements to deliver the right core capabilities to the business.
Devise new approaches to problems encountered and develop engineering criteria ensuring compliance with design criteria and standards.