
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
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