Job Description:
T&D Data Engineer, Portland, OR or Salt Lake City, UT #112798
Date: Oct 3, 2024
Location: PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232
Company: PacifiCorp

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PacifiCorp is seeking customer-centric candidates to grow and sustain our commitment to a culture of customer service excellence, environmental sustainability and diversity, equity and inclusion.

General Purpose

The T&D Data Engineer will be responsible for development of data pipelines and data governance for new and existing data products supporting technical and operational programs in electric operations. The incumbent will work within an expanding and increasingly complex data environment to support business critical wildfire risk data management and analyses, reliability reporting, and other use cases within electric operations and asset management. The data engineer will work closely with data scientists, analysts, and other stakeholders to ensure data integrity, availability, and accessibility. Example tasks include the development and implementation of data pipelines for wildfire risk modeling, outage tracking and reporting, and resilience analysis. In performing these tasks, this position will be responsible for creation of data pipelines, data governance standards, and backend system architecture leveraging the Palantir Foundry operational data analytics platform and other enterprise data management software.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines to process and integrate data from various sources for wildfire safety, reliability, and resilience applications.
• Develop and implement data governance standards to support data pipelines and applications.
• Optimize data workflows and query performance to enhance system efficiency and data processing speed.
• Develop and implement data quality control and quality assurance processes for supported data pipelines and applications.
• Monitor data systems and pipelines for performance issues, troubleshoot, and resolve any data-related problems.
• Coordinate with contracted vendors in support of the tasks above to ensure alignment across applications.
• Manage external and internal stakeholder relationships and oversee development milestones with transparency; appropriately involve necessary stakeholders for changes in processes or technology requirements.
• Identify improvement needs based on external and internal stakeholder input, measurement and evaluation, and gap analysis.
• Promote a continuous improvement mindset by conducting retrospectives and sharing lessons learned.
• Provide regular written and verbal updates to leadership on project status, successes, and lessons learned.
• Work closely with leadership teams to identify ways to collaborate and meet business objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering; or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5 years of related experience in database administration, systems analysis or data engineering.
• Demonstrated experience using Python and other programming languages.
• Demonstrated experience with SQL and relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL).
• Demonstrated knowledge of backup and recovery, disaster recovery, high availability, security, infrastructure, performance tuning, lifecycle, data management and data movement.
• Effective oral and written communication skills fostering an atmosphere of teamwork, high productivity and accuracy.
• Consistently delivers requirements and meets timelines.
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks and projects concurrently.

Preferences

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering.
• Experience using and supporting electric utility data systems.
• Experience developing and supporting data pipelines within the Palantir Foundry platform.

Additional Information

Req Id: 112798
Company Code: PacifiCorp
Primary Location: Portland, OR or Salt Lake City, UT
Department: Power Delivery
Schedule: ???????Days
Personnel Subarea: Exempt
Hiring Range: $100,700-$118,400
This position is eligible for an annual discretionary performance incentive bonus of up to 15.00% of salary.

Benefits: Health care, retirement, paid time off, tuition assistance, paid short-term and long-term disability, paid bereavement leave. For more information, please visit: https://careers.pacificorp.com/content/New-Benefits-Page/?locale=en_US

Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without an accommodation.

At PacifiCorp, we celebrate diversity, equity and inclusion. PacifiCorp is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or religious creed, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status (except as required by law), gender (including gender identity and expression), sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran or military status, familial or parental status, marital status or any other category protected by applicable local, state or U.S. federal law.

Unless otherwise required by law, all offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check and drug screening including for marijuana. While marijuana is legal in several states, including Oregon, a positive test for positions in Oregon may disqualify a candidate. The company complies with the laws of Washington and California and only obtains and considers positive tests for marijuana in safety-sensitive positions or those covered by U.S. Department of Transportation regulations.

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