PI Historian Administrator

Job Description:

Role Summary:

• The PI System Administrator is responsible for the installation, configuration, maintenance, and optimization of the PI Historian System.
• This role ensures data integrity, system reliability, and seamless data flow across site operations, enterprise applications, and analytics platforms.
• The PI Administrator collaborates closely with operations, IT, OT, and data engineering teams to support real time data collection, visualization, reporting, and integration.

Core Responsibilities:

• PI System Installation & Configuration
• Install, configure, and maintain PI Server components including:

PI Data Archive

• PI Asset Framework (AF)
• PI Vision
• PI Interfaces and Connectors
• PI Integrator
• Manage PI Server upgrades, patches, and hotfix deployment.
• Configure PI Collective, redundancy and high availability architectures.
• Configure and manage data flow between Canary Historian and PI System.
• System Monitoring & Maintenance:
• Monitor system performance, health, and data throughput.
• Maintain and troubleshoot interface/connector failures.
• Ensure reliable data collection from OT systems (SCADA, and Canary).
• Security & Access Management:
  • Administer PI System security:
  • Mappings, trusts, Identities, and AF security.
  • Implement best practices and harden current security.
• Data Quality & Integrity:
  • Ensure data accuracy, completeness, and timeliness across PI tags and AF attributes.
  • Validate and troubleshoot bad inputs, flatlines, compression issues, and outliers.
  • Manage tag creation, tag naming conventions, and metadata standards.
• AF Model & Asset Hierarchy Management:
• Build and maintain PI AF hierarchies, standardize templates, and attributes.
• Configure calculations, PI Analysis rules, event frames, and notifications.
• Partner with SMEs to model equipment, processes, and KPIs.
• Visualization & Integration:
• Configure dashboards and displays in PI Vision.
• Support users in creating trends, assets views, and contextualized displays.
• Understand integration using JDBC, OleDB, ODBC, PI Web API, and AF SDK with other applications such as Spotfire, AVEVA Predictive Analytics and PI Integrator.
• Troubleshooting & End User Support:
  • Provide Tier 2/3 support for PI related issues.
  • Troubleshoot data gaps, interface failures, client errors, AF calculation issues.
  • Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for incidents impacting PI System.
  • Document root cause, containment actions, corrective fixes, and long term preventive measures.
  • Provide training and support engineers, analysts, and operations on PI tools and data best practices.
• Continuous Improvement:
• Maintain system documentation, architecture diagrams, SOPs, and operational checklists.
• Document PI tag standards, AF templates, naming conventions, and data governance rules.
• Identify opportunities to improve data flows, reliability, and performance.
• Evaluate and implement new PI/AVEVA features and enhancements.