Principal Systems Development & Analytics Engineer

NAES • Issaquah, WA

8d • $163,000 - $187,450

About The Position

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. Summary 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.

Requirements

• Education: BS in Computer Science from an accredited college or university recognized by the United States Department of Education or equivalent. Relevant work experience may be substituted for education on a year-for-year basis.
• Years of Experience: 10 years of experience designing and operating production-grade systems that integrate multiple data sources and downstream platforms in asset-intensive or operational environments
• Experience building and maintaining API integrations and event-driven workflows
• Proficient in modern programming languages commonly used for automation and data systems, such as Python, and highly competent in SQL and relational data modeling
• A strong background in systems engineering, software engineering, or data engineering
• Able to translate complex, ambiguous operational problems into deterministic, enforceable system logic and to remain accountable for those systems over time. Candidates must be comfortable making architectural decisions, defending trade-offs, and operating with minimal supervision.
• Strong communication skills
• Safety is a core value of NAES and as a condition of employment, all employees are expected to be mentally alert and work safely at all times. Additionally, employees are required to adhere to all safety warnings and posted safety signs whenever on company property. Furthermore, employees must follow all NAES safety rules and procedures. Effectiveness in carrying out this responsibility is part of the evaluation of each employee’s performance.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in power generation, renewables, utilities, industrial O&M, or similarly asset-intensive environments
• Prior work involving CMMS platforms, alarm management, reliability engineering, or predictive maintenance systems
• Experience with cloud-native architectures, streaming data systems, and automation frameworks. Exposure to cybersecurity concepts related to access control, data boundaries, audit logging, and compliance in regulated environments
• Candidates who have led or owned automation initiatives that demonstrably removed manual labor, reduced operating cost, or improved audit posture over time will be particularly strong fits for this role

Responsibilities

• 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 operational priorities
• Working Relationships The Principal Engineer works closely with Operations, ROC teams, Maintenance, Finance, and Technology leadership and must be able to clearly explain system behavior, risks, and outcomes to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal