Job Summary:
Perdue AgriBusiness is an international agricultural products and services company that is part of Perdue Farms, a family-owned food and agricultural business. They are seeking an Operational Technology Data Engineer to modernize industrial data capture and transform it into actionable insights by building scalable data pipelines and partnering with cross-functional teams to enhance operational performance.
Responsibilities:
• Administer, maintain, and optimize OT data historian systems (e.g., AVEVA PI, FactoryTalk Historian, Canary, Ignition).
• Ensure high quality, continuous capture of time series data from PLCs, SCADA, sensors, and edge systems.
• Troubleshoot data flow issues and improve ingestion patterns such as compression, buffering, and contextualization.
• Design and implement secure, scalable OT data pipelines following OT IT segmentation standards.
• Develop cloud ingestion workflows using historian replication tools, edge gateways, IoT messaging systems, or custom pipelines.
• Ensure reliable, governed, one way movement of OT data to cloud environments.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture and BI teams to define OT data models, metadata standards, and governance requirements.
• Transform raw OT datasets into curated, production ready assets for analytics, reporting, and machine learning.
• Implement repeatable data onboarding frameworks to support multi-site expansion.
• Apply enterprise naming conventions, metadata standards, and data validation rules.
• Monitor pipeline health, latency, schema changes, and historian system integrity.
• Follow cybersecurity standards for OT—ensuring read only access, one-way pathways, and adherence to network segmentation policies.
• Work closely with business leadership, operations, engineering, maintenance, controls, IT infrastructure, and enterprise data teams.
• Participate in design reviews, architecture discussions, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Translate plant floor needs into scalable enterprise data solutions.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT, Data Engineering, or related field—or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience with OT systems, industrial data, or data engineering.
• Hands-on experience with data historian platforms (e.g., AVEVA PI, FT Historian, Canary, Ignition).
• Proficiency in data pipeline tools such as SQL, Python, REST APIs, or cloud ingestion frameworks.
• Familiarity with industrial protocols (EtherNet/IP, Modbus, OPC UA) and SCADA/PLC environments.
• Understanding of cloud data platforms (Azure, AWS, Snowflake, or Databricks) and time-series data modeling.
• Knowledge of OT cybersecurity concepts, segmentation, and iDMZ architectures.
• Knowledge of ISA 95, IEC 62443, or OT risk management frameworks.
Preferred:
• Experience building or supporting enterprise OT to cloud data architectures.
• Exposure to enterprise data lakes, data governance frameworks, and metadata/catalog platforms.
• Experience with OPC UA, MQTT, and modern IIoT platforms for secure, scalable industrial data integration.
• Hands-on experience developing Power BI dashboards or working with analytics teams to transform OT data into actionable visualizations.
Company:
Perdue Farms is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for everyone we touch through innovative food and agricultural products Founded in 1920, the company is headquartered in Salisbury, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.