Senior Data Engineer

With over 150 years of combined experience, delivering quality solutions across industries globally, Deep Digital Solutions is driving innovation and exceptional business value outcomes to our global clients.

We have extensive experience working globally with a wide range of clients including Global Life Science companies, Utilities, Food & Beverage, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing and Logistics.

Job brief

Deep Digital are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Data Engineer with a proven track record in successfully implementing, optimizing, and maintaining the data integration and historian systems.

The ideal candidate will possess in-depth knowledge of industrial processes, data historian best practices, and a strong ability to lead and mentor junior team members. This role involves advanced technical responsibilities and collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure the seamless operation of data integration and historian systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of data historian solutions.
• Lead efforts to integrate historian systems with various control systems and third-party applications.
• Conduct performance analysis and implement strategies for continuous improvement.
• Design and configure complex data tags to meet specific project requirements
• Develop custom interfaces and connectors to enhance data integration capabilities
• Develop and implement advanced security measures to protect historical data.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations, taking a lead role in audits and assessments
• Investigate and resolve complex issues related to data collection, storage, and retrieval.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers in the team
• Maintain comprehensive documentation for all configurations, installations, and troubleshooting procedures.
• Comply with Deep Digitals Quality Management System requirements i.e. perform your work according to your process documents, procedures and maintaining document information/completing department forms/records as required.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field
• Between 3 and 5 years of hands-on experience with design, implementation and leadership in projects, comprising of the following systems: AVEVA PI, AspenTech IP.21, AspenTech Inmation, Inductive Automation Ignition, PTC Kepware.
• In-depth knowledge of data integration and historian system architecture and components.
• Strong understanding of industrial processes and automation systems.
• Expertise with data contextualisation, visualisation and reporting platforms.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., PowerShell) for automation tasks.
• Previous experience in mentoring and leading a technical team