Metering and Data Systems Engineer

About the role

Georgia System Operations Corporation (GSOC) is seeking a Metering and Historian Systems Engineer to ensure the reliable flow, accuracy, availability, and security of revenue-grade meter data and operational time-series data used for energy accounting, member billing, settlements, control center operations, and business decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, maintain, and enhance the end-to-end flow of revenue meter data from Remote Revenue Meters through Meter Data Management, Data Systems and Settlements, energy accounting, member billing, and related downstream processes.
• Help ensure revenue meter data is accurate, complete, timely, available, secure, and traceable.
• Administer, monitor, maintain, and enhance operational historian data flows from the Energy Management System and generating plants to control center operators, Data Systems and Settlements, Family of Companies customers, and Member Cooperatives.
• Investigate meter, historian, interface, and processing exceptions by comparing authoritative data sources, identifying anomalies, coordinating corrective action, and documenting resolution.
• Analyze member load and interval meter data and develop documented correlations, estimates, and load-reconstruction methods when data is temporarily or permanently unavailable.
• Support monthly member billing and settlement activities by validating revenue-metered data, resolving exceptions within required timeframes, and coordinating with stakeholders.
• Analyze changes to the Georgia Integrated Transmission System, Energy Management System, generating plants, meter configurations, historian tags, and interfaces to validate downstream impacts.
• Maintain operating procedures and incident, change, asset, and configuration records.
• Identify and implement opportunities to automate work, strengthen monitoring and data controls, improve reliability and performance, enhance cybersecurity and compliance, and reduce manual intervention.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to support critical systems and operational needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering Technology, Data/Information Systems, or a related technical field.
• Equivalent combination of education, training, industry certifications, military experience, and directly related work experience may be considered.
• Experience or demonstrated aptitude in utility metering, historian platforms, EMS/SCADA, operational technology, energy accounting, settlements, data systems, or related technical environments.
• Ability to investigate complex data issues, reconcile multiple sources, recognize patterns and anomalies, and clearly communicate conclusions and assumptions.
• Strong documentation, organization, customer service, teamwork, and written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain Bulk Electric System Cyber Authorized Status as defined by GSOC policy and NERC Reliability Standard CIP-004 Personnel Risk Assessment requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Utility Metering & Energy Data: Knowledge of electric utility revenue metering, interval data, energy accounting, settlements, load analysis, validation, estimation, or related utility data processes.
• Historian, EMS/SCADA & Technical Platforms: Experience with or aptitude to learn IEE/MV-90xi Meter Data Management, AVEVA PI System, eDNA, EMS/SCADA interfaces, SQL, time-series databases, Power BI, reporting, scripting, or workflow automation.
• Experience troubleshooting interfaces and data flows across metering, historian, database, EMS/SCADA, and related systems.
• Operations, Processes & Industry Experience: Knowledge of ITIL-based incident, asset, problem, and change management practices and tools such as ServiceNow, Ivanti Service Manager, or ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus.
• Utility, electric cooperative, generation and transmission, municipal utility, investor-owned utility, ISO/RTO, regulated production-system, or 24/7 control-center support experience.