Data Engineer - ET Strategic Initiatives (Richmond, VA)

 

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. Review the position below and apply today.

 

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 below will be considered for this opportunity. 



 

 

We Strive to Drive Power Innovation Through Data

The nature of the grid is in flux – we on the Strategic Initiatives - Operations Analytics team see this challenge and aim to rise to the occasion. Our team mandate is simple: we aim to bridge the gap between real-world system data and provide consumable business intelligence to help steer the future of how we monitor and manage the grid. Our fast-growing team is responsible for the capture, curation, utilization, and application of time-series data, including Synchrophasors and SCADA. Our work is to 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 shifting energy landscape. We seek the curious and creative, the self-motivated, and those driven by the pursuit of driving change.

Job Summary: We Seek Joint Expertise in Power Systems & Data Storytelling

Our ET Strategic Initiatives team is seeking an experienced Engineer with a strong background in data engineering technology and development to help further our business’ power system analytic capabilities. An ideal candidate is driven by the pursuit of excellence – this is not a job for wrench-turning, but rather for those compelled to identify problems and solve them with critical thinking abilities and working with a multi-faceted team. Candidates must bring the ability to identify gaps in knowledge and organizational capability and pinpoint uses for data and storytelling techniques to ensure we serve the business with improved data-decision making technology. A successful candidate will focus on:

 

• Forging new relationships across the organization in search of applicable use cases and opportunities to use time series data as a backbone for analysis and decision-making and guiding/building out bespoke solutions.
• Ongoing account management – working with existing relationships to meet established project requirements and ensure any analytic/application outputs meet the stated objective of customer established requirements.
• Ensuring uptime and proper operation of our PI system resources – this will require continuous engagement with our IT team and vendor to ensure current and future state operations of PI are nominally operational for the organization.
• Trial and error through agile methods with the established stakeholder group; in the pursuit of lightweight applications and capabilities, we operate through constant contact and focus on results and proving value, not through over-engineered top-down solutioning.
• 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.
• Exploring new techniques and PI features to model time-series and asset data. Whether leveraging native PI capabilities, or utilizing SDK and API capabilities to establish data services and create improved capabilities outside.

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This position will be filled at the level commensurate with the selected candidates’ skills and abilities.  

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Experience

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

Engineer: 2+ years of engineering experience

Senior Engineer: 5+ years of engineering experience

Staff Engineer: 8+ years of engineering experience

 

• Customer Engagement: To succeed in this role, the candidate must establish numerous internal customer relationships and be willing to guide and shape problem statements and drive bespoke solution development.
• Strong Communication Skills: Our work will support customers across the organization, strong oral and written communication skills will be a key part of our ability to succeed and penetrate the organization.
• Autonomy and self-starting: We are spearheading new and customized capabilities; we are seeking candidates with the ability to operate independently while aligning to the joint mission of our team.
• Data Analysis: Interrogating data and carefully posing the right questions to produce insightful and high impact outputs. Candidates should possess strong analytic skills and have a history of using programmatic languages to create data analyses and visualizations that answer specific and properly posed questions. A strong candidate will demonstrate a high degree of proficiency in developing tools and performing analysis using Pi Vision and bring additional background including but not limited to Python, R Studio, Google Data Studio, Advanced Excel, Visual Basic, SQL, and/or ArcGIS.
• PI Data Engineering (preferred but not required): Much of our PI technology is operated and maintained by our Information Technology team; it is our responsibility to ensure the proper guidance of business requirements to deliver the right core capabilities to the business. Having a sound understanding of PI technology features (specifically OSISoft and/or AVEVA) are preferred for this role. This includes PI Data Archive, PI SDK, PI AF SDK, PI system administrator, and Visual Studio .NET. A candidate should have hands on experience in PI Systems administration activities on PI Server, PI Interfaces, PI Vision Server, and PI Web API to provide proper business guidance of the Information Technology team.
• Power Systems Fundamentals (preferred but not required): We deal with transmission systems data. A candidate with power systems acumen will have a more streamlined entry to posing the right engineering questions and devising highly applicable analytic results – while this is not required, we will look for candidates with a demonstrated history in professional training and development.
• The candidate should demonstrate excellent professional ethics.

 

Education Requirements

Education Level: Bachelor (required)
Preferred, but not mandatory: Masters, Doctor of Philosophy
Disciplines: Required: Engineering

 

REQUIRED ENGINEERING CRITERIA:

• For placement of a candidate in the Engineer job series, the following criteria must be met:
• Possess a 4-year engineering degree from an ABET accredited engineering program based on the year that the engineering program was accredited by ABET, or
• Possess a 4-year engineering degree from an institution outside of the U.S. which is accredited through the country's own engineering accrediting body under the Washington Accord as a full signatory, and is a degree that was recognized by the country's accrediting body on or after the date that full signatory status was achieved, or
• Possess a 4-year engineering degree from a non-ABET accredited program and a postgraduate engineering degree from an institution where the undergraduate degree in the same engineering discipline is ABET accredited based on the year the engineering program was accredited by ABET, or
• Possess a 4-year degree in Physics, Chemistry, Math or Engineering Technology and a post-graduate engineering degree from an institution where the undergraduate degree in the same engineering discipline is ABET accredited based on the year the engineering program was accredited by ABET, or
• Holds or has previously held a valid U.S. Professional Engineer license.

 

Key Considerations

Must be able to meet NERC qualifications.

Relocation assistance may be offered to the successful candidate.

Sponsorship assistance may be offered to the successful candidate.

 

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.  

Licenses, Certifications, or Quals Description

Working Conditions

Office Work Environment 76 -100%Travel Up to 25%Outdoors Up to 25%

Other Working Conditions

Export Control
Certain positions at Dominion Energy may involve access to information and technology subject to export controls under U.S. law.  Compliance with these export controls may result in Dominion Energy limiting its consideration of certain applicants.

 

Other Information
We offer excellent plans and programs for employees. Employees are rewarded with a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package which may include: health benefits with coverage for families and domestic partners, vacation, retirement plans, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, and much more.   To learn more about our benefits, click here dombenefits.com.

 

Dominion Energy is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their protected veteran or disabled status. 

 

You can experience the excitement of our company – it's the difference between taking a job and starting a career.

 

Test Description

No Testing

 

Export Control

Certain positions at Dominion Energy may involve access to information and technology subject to export controls under U.S. law.  Compliance with these export controls may result in Dominion Energy limiting its consideration of certain applicants.

 

Other Information

We offer excellent plans and programs for employees. Employees are rewarded with a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package which may include: health benefits with coverage for families and domestic partners, vacation, retirement plans, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, and much more.   To learn more about our benefits, click here dombenefits.com.

Dominion Energy is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin and/or status as a protected veteran or individual with a disability. 

You can experience the excitement of our company – it's the difference between taking a job and starting a career.