Aveva PI Lead Engineer - Remote

Serve as a Senior Engineer - Execution Systems in a hybrid work environment, designing, implementing, and optimizing AVEVA PI Historian solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to capture manufacturing and supply chain data, improve operational visibility, and enable data-driven decisions that enhance efficiency, quality, and sustainability.

Responsibilities

• Design robust AVEVA PI Historian architectures to ensure reliable collection, storage, and retrieval of high-volume operational data from manufacturing systems.

• Configure data interfaces and connectors to integrate plant floor equipment, enterprise applications, and supply chain systems for seamless data flow.

• Develop and maintain data models, tags, calculations, and asset frameworks to support monitoring, reporting, and analytics.

• Optimize data collection strategies by tuning sampling rates, compression, and exception settings to balance performance and accuracy.

• Implement data validation, cleansing, and enrichment processes to improve data quality for downstream applications.

• Collaborate with manufacturing and supply chain stakeholders to translate business requirements into PI configurations, dashboards, and alerts.

• Build visualizations and reports using AVEVA PI tools or connected analytics platforms for performance tracking and decision support.

• Work with IT and OT teams to ensure secure, scalable, and compliant deployment of PI Historian in hybrid environments.

• Document solution design, standards, and operational procedures for consistent deployment across sites.

• Troubleshoot data flow issues, performance bottlenecks, and system defects, and implement long-term fixes.

• Mentor junior engineers and share best practices in historian configuration and data governance.

• Drive continuous improvement by analyzing historian data to identify inefficiencies, risks, and optimization opportunities.

• Support business goals by enabling data-driven decisions that improve safety, product quality, and environmental performance.

• 8-12 years of experience in designing and supporting AVEVA PI Historian solutions in industrial or manufacturing environments.

• Strong knowledge of time-series data concepts including tags, event frames, and asset hierarchies.

• Experience working with manufacturing execution systems, plant automation, or industrial data acquisition.

• Understanding of supply chain processes such as production planning, inventory tracking, and logistics.

• Hands-on experience troubleshooting connectivity with controllers, gateways, and data interfaces.

• Knowledge of scripting or automation tools related to AVEVA PI Historian.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to work effectively in a hybrid model with distributed teams.

• Commitment to continuous learning and staying current with AVEVA PI and industrial data trends.

Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world’s leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.). Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 1000, and the Fortune 500 and we are among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.