Job Purposes:
Works with decision makers and/or Management-level clients analyzing and identifying technology solutions for challenges in overall management of real-time data. An expert with OSIsoft’s PI System and application of their product suite, specifically PI AF, is required. Requires full knowledge of product line and its applications, advising clients on technology and solutions along with a strong understanding of the client's objectives, challenges and value proposition. The ability to understand a business problem and offer a solution.
Responsibilities:
- Innovation Implementation and Pipeline Management - Develop complex innovations of critical products or services, running pilots and testing through fast-paced project launches, managing project schedules, identifying risks, and communicating to project stakeholders and external partners.
- Project Management - Manage a portfolio of projects while reporting to senior colleagues to deliver project objectives and comply with the organizations project management framework.
- Project Planning - Produce workstream or project plans, ensuring that all activities are identified, are appropriately organized to deliver project objectives, and comply with the organization's project management framework.
- Digital Strategy/Transformational Projects Execution - Execute and deliver elements of the digital road map, leveraging agile and design-thinking principles to drive sustainable implementation.
- Databases Installation - Install and test complex databases and associated products to ensure they are suitable for use and meet customer requirements.
- Analysis of "As Is" and "To Be" - Document "as is" and "to be" processes and describe the changes required to migrate to the "to be" capability to record accurately the changes required.
- Work Scheduling and Allocation - Develop short- or medium-term work schedules to achieve planned commitments. Maintain project hours and resources as needed bringing projects to full execution on time and on budget.
- Operational Compliance - Maintain and renew a deep knowledge and understanding of the organization's policies and procedures and of relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct, and ensure own work adheres to required standards.
- Digital Vision and Strategy - Support strategy formulation for digital by exploring how information technology can be used to help the organization become more responsive to customer needs and changing business requirements.
- Digital Talent Development - Develop and design content for training and development programs in digital to fill gaps in established programs; contribute customized training and development programs in digital as requested.
- Performance Management - Develop and propose own performance objectives; take appropriate actions to ensure achievement of agreed objectives, using the organization's performance management systems to improve personal performance.
- Organizational Capability Building - Provide training or coaching to others throughout the organization in own area of expertise to enable others to improve performance and fulfill personal potential.
Position Requirements:
Behavioral Competencies:
- Drives Results - Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances. For example, holds self to high standards of performance; sets some challenging goals; wants to achieve meaningful results; pursues initiatives/efforts to successful completion and closure. Focuses on key goals, even during setbacks and obstacles.
- Business Insight - Applies knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals. For example, clearly understands how own activities relate to critical business drivers. Monitors business news and market changes for impact on the business or on own expertise area; uses this to shape decisions.
- Cultivates Innovation - Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful. For example, motivates others to find new and better ways to address challenges; provides support and resources for promising ideas. Encourages people to incorporate varied perspectives to strengthen the innovation process.
- Manages Complexity - Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems. For example, consistently looks at complex issues from many angles; obtains a rich and deep understanding; swiftly cuts to the core issue; skillfully separates root causes from symptoms.
- Collaborates - Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. For example, readily involves others to accomplish goals; stays in touch and shares information; shows appreciation for others' ideas and input.
- Strategic Mindset - Sees ahead to future possibilities and translates them into breakthrough strategies. For example, articulates how own actions contribute to the organization's success and prioritizes actions that will help reach the goals. Sees important trends and starts discussion about how these may impact own work, the industry, or customers.
- Tech Savvy - Anticipates and adopts innovations in business-building digital and technology applications. For example, investigates technologies to learn some cutting-edge best practices. Uses digital/social media to benefit the team and add value to the work being done; understands how to avoid misuse of these tools.
Skills:
- Planning and Organizing - Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while providing guidance and training to others on planning, organizing, prioritizing and overseeing activities to efficiently meet business objectives.
- Data Collection and Analysis - Works independently and provides guidance and training to others on analyzing data trends for use in reports to help guide decision making.
- Project Risk and Issue Management - Uses comprehensive knowledge and/or skills to act independently with guiding and training others on identifying, assessing, prioritizing and managing project-related risks. Risk Alternative Planning, Risk Analysis, Risk Categorization, Risk Identification, Risk Management Plan, Risk Management Planning, Risk Plan Implementation, Risk Prioritization, Risk Probability and Impact Assessment, Risk Register/Risk Listing, Risk Tolerance, Risk Urgency, Decision Tree Diagrams, Probability And Impact Matrix
- Action Planning - Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on developing appropriate plans or performing necessary actions based on recommendations and requirements.
- Project Management - Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while guiding and training others on managing projects and/or programs within desired cost, time and quality parameters. Project Change Management Plan, Project Charter, Project Management Plan, Project Requirements Management Plan, Project Requirements Verification Plan, Project Resource Management Plan, Project Schedule, Project Schedule Baseline, Project Scope Statement, Project Change Log/Register
- Project Schedule Management - Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to act independently while guiding and training others on sequencing and scheduling tasks into a project plan. Critical Chain, Critical Path Analysis, Estimating, Precedence Diagramming Method, Project Schedule, Project Schedule Baseline, Resource leveling, Resource Loading, Rolling Wave Planning, Schedule Variance Analysis, Task Relationship Logic, Theory of Constraints, Work Breakdown Structure, Work In Progress (WIP) Limits, Burndown Charts, Burnup Charts, Gantt Chart, Milestone Chart, Precedence Diagram, Project Schedule Management Plan
- Stakeholder Expectation Management - Works at an advanced level to identify potential stakeholders, analyze their expectations, and develop strategies for managing stakeholders and their expectations. Typically works independently and provides guidance. Communications management plan, Expectation management, Relationship building, Managing relationships, Conflict resolution techniques, Conflict management
- IT Implementation and integration - Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on implementing, configuring and optimizing IT systems and services, while ensuring smooth integration with existing IT infrastructure.
- Policy and procedures - Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on developing, monitoring, interpreting and understanding policies and procedures, while making sure they match organizational strategies and objectives.
- Project Life Cycle Adaptation - Works with full competence to define the program, component projects, and operations, adapt existing life cycle frameworks to the unique nature of the program, and orchestrate the integration of all component parts to deliver the program outcomes and benefits. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance. Life cycle/methodology selection, Analysis skills, Prioritization
- Review and Reporting - Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on reviewing and creating relevant, lucid and effective reports.
- Products/Services Management and Development - Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to act independently while guiding and training others on managing and developing all aspects of a product or service so that it achieves its maximum impact and value in the market.
- Project Scope Management - Works at an advanced level to identify, verify, and manage changes to the scope of the project or program, utilizing the most appropriate approach. Typically works independently and provides guidance. Project requirements management plan, Project scope statement, Project requirements documentation, Project scope change management plan, Project scope documents, Project scope baseline, Project requirements validation plan, Project requirements verification plan
- Project Tracking and Reporting - Uses comprehensive knowledge and/or skills to act independently while guiding and training others on measuring and reporting progress toward intermediate targets to make sure a project stays on track to achieve its ultimate goals. Project Performance Report, Status Reporting, Status Reports, Schedule Reporting
- Adaptive Mindset - Works with full competence to shift into and out of a mental mindsets associated with assessing the facts and circumstances of the current situation and/or environment and making the appropriate/innovative adjustments to thinking and work habits to thrive in any scenario. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance. Adapts existing tools and techniques to existing situation, Adapts to changing goals / objectives, Entrepreneurial spirit, Focuses on simplicity when addressing the customer
- Analyze Current State/AS-IS State - Works with full competence to understand business context, needs, rules, and architecture, as well as organizational structure, cultures, capabilities, and processes to document the current state of processes and the business. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance. Analysis skills, Process modeling/mapping
- Budget and Control - Works with full competence to create, analyze and monitor budgets in line with organizational and project/program criteria; identify trends and forecasts. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance.
- Database Administration - Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on designing, implementing, maintaining and administering databases.
- Define Future State/TO-BE State - Works with full competence to envision and document the future state of processes and products by identifying the solution scope, potential value of the future state, and the changes to the process, products, organization infrastructure, capabilities, and technology necessary to achieve the desired future state. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance. Analysis skills
- IT Testing - Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on ensuring that IT applications meet required specifications by designing, executing and reporting on tests of systems and services.
- Managing Change - Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on maintaining high performance while applying a change mindset to the planning, execution and monitoring of business activities during times of change.
- Measure Solution Performance - Works with full competence to identify appropriate measures for assessing solution performance and limitations, validate with key stakeholders, and collect appropriate performance measures to assess overall solution performance to recommend specific actions to increase solution value. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance. Determine acceptance and evaluation criteria
- Negotiation - Negotiates without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on how to help the organization by obtaining consensus between two or more internal or external parties who may have different interests.
- Perform Gap Analysis - Works with full competence to conduct gap analysis between current and future states to identify components of the overall change strategy. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance. Analysis skills
- Project Benefits Management - Works with full competence to identify, track, and enable the achievement of the planned benefits and intended outcomes of a program and associated projects. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance. Business cases, Benefits planning, Benefits realization plan, Benefits transition
- Project Cost and Budget Management - Works with full competence to estimate and manage the effort and finances to complete the work within budget. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance. Estimating, Budgeting, Project cost baseline
- Project Estimating - Works with full competence to estimate each of the components of project, program, or portfolio work, including costs, activity durations, resource needs, risks, stakeholders, etc. across the life of the project or program. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance. Parametric estimating, Bottom-up estimating, Analogous estimating, Agile Estimating
- Project Integration Management - Works with full competence to identify, define, unify, and coordinate the various processes and activities to integrate the project management activities. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance. Project charter, Project management plan, Project change management plan, Program plan, Project change log/register, Project change request, Program roadmap, Program alignment to organizational strategy, Portfolio alignment (project), Project closeout plan, Project closure, Portfolio roadmap (project), Program closure, Portfolio charter (project)
- Project Resource Planning and Control - Works with full competence to identify, acquire, and manage the resources (physical and human) for the project. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance. Project resource management plan, Estimating, RACI matrix, RASCI matrix
- Project Strategy Creation and Alignment - Works with full competence to create the project strategy, vision, and goals, and maintain them in alignment with the organization's strategy and goals. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance. Business model canvas, SWOT analysis
- Workflow Management - Works with full competence to orient work in a workflow to plan, organize, and execute the steps it takes to achieve a goal to achieve higher efficiencies. Typically works without supervision and may provide technical guidance. Kanban Board (Workflow Management), Workflow Management
Education:
- Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Level Experience in related field
General Experience:
- Experience in delivering complex solutions to various industry verticals with the ability to take business requirements and develop recommendations for client solutions. To have the ability to articulate and document a solution as well as deploy the solution.
- Expert level of knowledge with the following OSIsoft applications:
- OSIsoft PI Asset Framework:
- Templates;
- Analytics;
- Elements/Attributes;
- EventFrames;
- Notifications
- PI DataLink with Excel VBA;
- PI Server Administration;
- PI Vision
- OPC Server knowledge
- Programming knowledge is desired: C#, ASP .NET Core, Python, PowerShell
- Database skills are a plus: SQL (Snowflake, MSSQL, Postgres or others)
- Experience with PI Time Series data
- Experience with Cloud Based services: Azure, AWS
- Familiar with Agile methodology
- Experience in DevOps Engineering
- Data Analytics with ability to write and/or debug complex queries with CTEs and window functions
- Experience Unit testing and Integration testing
- Strong communication skills – verbally and written – with ability to communicate with all levels, including SMEs and Senior Management
- Knowledge sharing is expected and can be delivered to colleagues in various ways, sharing at monthly meetings, mentoring junior staff or producing tech memos.
- Brings ideas forward that solve business challenges.
- Support sales activities
- Support business development at client site
- Maintain view of spend by project area compared to budget
- Experience managing projects or programs in virtual environment.
- Ability to travel 25-50% of time to client sites.
