SCADA Developer

Summary: The SCADA Developer role develops and supports SCADA applications and integrations. This role ensures system reliability through troubleshooting, production support, and on-call participation while collaborating with Operations, Automation, Engineering, Measurement, and IT teams to improve system performance, data quality, and the overall user experience., * Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain Ignition Perspective applications, views, templates, and reusable components.

• Develop Python/Jython scripts for application logic, data processing, tag management, integrations, reporting, and system automation.

• Create and maintain SQL queries, named queries, stored procedures, and database integrations used by SCADA applications.

• Build clear, responsive operator interfaces, dashboards, trends, alarm displays, and data-entry workflows that support field and control-room operations.

• Configure and maintain Ignition tags, UDTs, tag history, alarms, alarm journals, and related gateway resources.

• Troubleshoot application, scripting, database, communication, and data-quality issues across the SCADA system.

• Work closely with Operations, Automation, Measurement, Engineering, and IT teams to define requirements and deliver practical solutions.

• Support the integration of PLCs, RTUs, OPC servers, MQTT systems, APIs, and other operational data sources with the SCADA platform.

• Improve application performance, reliability, maintainability, and consistency through standards, code reviews, testing, and reusable design patterns.

• Document application changes, scripts, database objects, system configurations, and support procedures, and maintain version-controlled project backups.

• Follow change-management, cybersecurity, access-control, and testing standards for production SCADA systems.

• Participate in production support and an on-call rotation, including troubleshooting critical SCADA issues when needed.

• High School Diploma or equivalent (GED)

• 3+ years of experience developing or supporting SCADA, industrial software, automation, or operational technology systems.

• Hands-on experience developing applications in Ignition Perspective, including views, components, bindings, styles, navigation, and session or page properties.

• Experience writing Python or Jython scripts for production applications, including functions, dictionaries, lists, exception handling, logging, and data transformation.

• Basic SQL skills, including SELECT statements, joins, filtering, grouping, inserts, updates, and parameterized queries.

• Understanding of SCADA concepts such as tags, UDTs, alarms, historian data, OPC communications, and quality and timestamp handling.

• Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to identify root causes across application, database, and field-data layers.

• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical users, manage priorities, and work independently in a production environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Automation, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience with Ignition 8.1, SQL Server, Snowflake, REST APIs, reporting, and Git or other version-control tools.

• Experience in oil and gas production, midstream, measurement, or field operations.

• Familiarity with PLCs, RTUs, industrial protocols, OPC UA, MQTT, Modbus, DNP3, and telemetry networks.

• Familiarity with OT cybersecurity practices, high-availability systems, gateway architectures, and production change management.