Convergent Energy and Power

Principal SCADA Engineer

Convergent Energy and Power

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $170,000 - $185,000 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Serve as the technical lead for our SurvalentONE SCADA platform.
  • Administer all critical aspects of the SCADA environment, including data platform development, alarm management, and application design and configuration.
  • Ensure high availability and platform resilience, via mature architecture choices, strong monitoring, and SLAs.
  • Monitor system performance and proactively address stability, latency, alarm flooding, and data integrity issues.
  • Lead platform patching, upgrades, licensing management, and version control.
  • Ensure lean but structured change management to provide fast feature delivery with minimal operational disruption.
  • Lead root cause investigations for system-level failures or platform degradation.
  • Collaborate closely with key stakeholders to optimize data pipelines and infrastructure.
  • Develop SCADA lifecycle processes and maintain ISA-112 alignment.
  • Develop and maintain enterprise SCADA standards spanning system philosophy, alarm management, naming conventions, network architecture, and automation.
  • Produce annual SCADA performance and roadmap reports.
  • Design and implement scalability improvements as fleet expands.
  • Document and maintain complete SCADA topology and system architecture.
  • Troubleshoot complex SCADA-related incidents impacting the Control Center, including communications failures (DNP3, Modbus, IEC 61850), data corruption, nuisance alarms, application anomalies, and disaster recovery.
  • Support integration and mapping of RTACs and other automation controllers into Survalent.
  • Analyze power system event data and assist in disturbance analysis when required.
  • Provide SCADA reference design standards and templates for Construction Engineering.
  • Define required points lists and data mapping standards for new projects.
  • Support factory testing and integration validation prior to project COD.
  • Ensure seamless integration of new facilities onto the Survalent platform in collaboration with Software and Control Center teams.
  • Define and verify proper data ingestion, alarm alignment, and HMI integration prior to operational handoff.

Requirements

  • Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • Minimum 7 years of hands-on SCADA engineering experience, with 3 years of direct experience in Survalent application ecosystem strongly preferred.
  • Demonstrated experience owning and administering a production SCADA environment, including data infrastructure, application design, alert management, and asset integration.
  • Experience managing SCADA system upgrades and patching in live environments.
  • Experience developing and maintaining production-grade cloud systems (Azure preferred).
  • Proven ability to troubleshoot complex SCADA platform issues independently.
  • Experience working in high-availability or critical infrastructure environments.
  • Understanding of redundancy, failover, and disaster recovery architecture.
  • Comfort making independent technical decisions in production environments.
  • Strong analytical approach to problem-solving and troubleshooting.
  • Ability to balance system stability with feature development.
  • Ability to clearly communicate complex technical issues to operations stakeholders.
  • Ability to proactively identify system risks and improvement opportunities.
  • Alignment with Convergent’s mission, values and a strong interest in the clean energy transition.
  • 5-10% travel expected, primarily for training, conferences, team events and company-wide meetings.
  • *Preferred Qualifications*
  • Experience with SEL RTAC configuration and database mapping.
  • Experience with SEL protection relaying and power quality meter integration.
  • Familiarity with communications protocols such as DNP3, Modbus, IEC 61850, and OPC UA.
  • Familiarity with renewable energy and battery energy storage systems.
Benefits
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
  • Vacation, Sick, and Volunteer days
  • 401K with an employer safe harbor match
  • Special Vendor Discounts on programs for:
  • Identity theft and fraud prevention
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
SCADA engineeringdata platform developmentalarm managementapplication designsystem performance monitoringroot cause analysisdata ingestioncloud systems developmentSEL RTAC configurationcommunications protocols
Soft Skills
problem-solvinganalytical skillscommunicationindependent decision-makingrisk identificationcollaborationchange managementfeature deliverystakeholder engagementadaptability
Certifications
Bachelor of Science in Electrical EngineeringBachelor of Science in Computer ScienceBachelor of Science in Software Engineering