Aveva PI Software Engineer

Job Title: Aveva PI Software Engineer LOCAL TO CHARLOTTE ONLY - Hybrid 3 days week in office in Charlotte, NC (( LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY)Lead Software Developer - PI Platform EngineeringAutomation • Cloud • GenAI • AVEVA PI Ecosystem • AWSPosition SummaryWe are seeking a highly skilled Lead Software Developer to drive technical delivery across multiple concurrent workstreams for the PI Platform Engineering Team. This role is execution-focused and hands-on: you will translate business needs into concrete technical plans, lead developers through implementation, and ensure solutions are enterprise-grade, supportable, well-documented, and aligned to established engineering standards.Our team builds custom solutions focused on automation, cloud, and Generative AI surrounding the AVEVA PI System ecosystem. A major focus area is an internal AWS-based orchestration and automation platform used to coordinate workflows, deployments, and operational activities across PI infrastructure.Key ResponsibilitiesTechnical Leadership & Delivery Execution (Primary)• Own day-to-day technical execution across multiple parallel workstreams: clarify scope, define next steps, and drive delivery to completion.• Break down ambiguous requirements into actionable epics/stories/tasks; identify dependencies, risks, and sequencing.• Guide and mentor developers: propose implementation approaches, teach patterns/standards, and delegate work appropriately.• Ensure delivery outputs are enterprise-ready: maintainability, security controls, operational readiness, and documentation/runbooks.• Partner with architecture/standards owners to ensure implementation aligns to published design principles and coding standards.• Provide clear status updates to technical and non-technical stakeholders; escalate risks and blockers early.Agile/Scrum Collaboration (JIRA)• Collaborate closely with the team's Project Manager and Agilist who coordinate Agile ceremonies, reporting, and cadence.• Bring technical context to sprint planning and backlog refinement: help ensure stories are implementable, risks/dependencies are understood, and acceptance criteria are clear.• Support delivery execution during the sprint by helping engineers stay aligned on scope, sequencing, and next steps in JIRA.AWS Engineering (Automation, Orchestration & Infrastructure-as-Code)• Design, build, and enhance AWS-based automation workflows and services (commonly including Step Functions, Lambda, Systems Manager (SSM), S3, DynamoDB, IAM/RBAC, and related services).• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred; CloudFormation familiarity a plus).• Implement reliability engineering practices: observability, log/metric/trace instrumentation, failure handling, retries, runbooks, and root-cause analysis.• Support secure-by-design implementations: least-privilege access patterns, credential governance, and auditability.• Leverage enterprise secrets and privileged access tooling as appropriate (e.g., HashiCorp Vault, CyberArk, BeyondTrust).Quality, Operational Readiness & Documentation• Participate in and/or lead code reviews; enforce engineering standards and best practices.• Create or improve technical documentation: architecture notes, designs, SOPs, runbooks, deployment/backout plans, and support procedures.• Drive testing discipline (unit/integration) and support production deployment readiness activities.GenAI Initiatives (Proof-of-Concept Delivery)• Lead or support delivery of GenAI proof-of-concepts in collaboration with an internal AI community of practice, with a focus on outcomes that can scale in subsequent phases.• Work with product and stakeholders to define success criteria, technical approach, and roadmap for expansion.Required Qualifications:• 7+ years of professional software development experience, including leading delivery for other developers or squads.• Strong AWS experience building production-grade services and automation workflows.• Demonstrated ability to lead execution across multiple simultaneous initiatives: scoping, planning, dependency management, and delivery.• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments using JIRA (technical contribution to planning/refinement; collaboration with delivery roles).• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code for cloud environments (Terraform preferred; CloudFormation familiarity a plus).• Strong SDLC discipline: Git-based workflows, CI/CD practices, code review, documentation, and operational readiness.• Excellent communication skills: ability to translate between business needs and technical implementation plans.Preferred Qualifications• Experience in the AVEVA/OSIsoft PI ecosystem (Data Archive, Asset Framework, PI Vision, PI Web API/SDKs) or similar industrial/historian platforms.• Experience modernizing legacy applications into enterprise architecture standards (security, supportability, observability, and documentation).• Hands-on experience with .NET/C#, SQL, PowerShell, and at least one modern scripting/runtime language (e.g., Python, Node.js).• Experience with monitoring/log aggregation and operational tooling (e.g., CloudWatch, Splunk, Elastic, Dynatrace).