Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, driving transformational change within our clients. We use proven technology, specialist teams and domain expertise to build solid technical foundations across platforms, data, and business applications. We have a passion for using technology to solve business problems, working in partnership with our clients to help in achieving their goals.
We are looking for an applications engineer with experience of supporting energy sector or similar application portfolios. Experience of supporting a diverse portfolio of applications, including Real-Time asset information systems (primarily AVEVA PI).
Requirements
Previous extensive experience as an applications engineer regularly troubleshooting and ensuring smooth running of the system
Experience of support energy sector or similar application portfolios, with a knowledge of SQL and necessary database interfaces
Experience working and liasing closely with vendors and has the ability to keep them on track
Experience of working through and application upgrade and comfortable working in testing environments
Analytical skills
Application interoperability, integrations, data flows, functionality overlap
Real-time data/ PI knowledge/understanding
Database knowledge
Automation/scripting skills – python (desirable)
Reporting and presenting
Understating on allocation, system config and performance, production/lost production figures