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Sr. Principal Project EngineerAspen Technology • Reading
Sr. Principal Project Engineer

Sr. Principal Project Engineer

Aspen Technology • Reading
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.

The Role

We are seeking a Sr Principal Project Engineer to lead multi-disciplinary engineering teams delivering complex SCADA/EMS/GMS/ADMS solutions in the region using AspenTech’s Digital Grid Management (DGM) products for leading utilities worldwide. You will be accountable for end-to-end technical delivery, including architecture, integration, validation, commissioning, and operational handover, while mentoring engineers and setting engineering best practices across programs in the region. Experience with monarch is highly preferred.

Your Impact

  • Technical leadership of programs: Define solution architectures and integration strategies for large, multi-workstream SCADA/EMS/GMS/ADMS deliveries; drive technical decisions, design reviews, and quality gates to ensure robust, scalable outcomes.
  • Plan, design, integrate, and validate: Lead planning, detailed design, and integration activities; establish verification strategies and direct system testing including Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) and Site Acceptance Testing (SAT) with rigorous traceability to requirements.
  • Commissioning & stabilization: Oversee commissioning and cutover plans, guide troubleshooting for complex variances in production environments, and ensure timely deployment of resolutions.
  • Matrixed team leadership: Provide day-to-day technical direction to engineers, elevating engineering discipline, reusability, and delivery velocity across the portfolio.
  • Customer & stakeholder engagement: Translate operational needs from utility stakeholders into clear engineering requirements; communicate tradeoffs and recommend solutions that meet performance, reliability, and operability targets.
  • Engineering excellence: Set and enforce standards for configuration management, environment readiness, and documentation; champion continuous improvement of delivery methods and reusable assets.
  • Enablement & knowledge sharing: Mentor engineers, contribute to training materials, and cultivate communities of practice to spread best practices across offices, regions and programs.
  • Strategic pre‑sales engagement: When requested, support Sales and Solution Consulting with technical validation of delivery approaches and occasional participation in solution briefings or customer demos for priority pursuits.

What You'll Need

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or related field.
  • Minimum of 8+ years of relevant experience in utility operations/dispatch, real-time control systems, or mission-critical OT/IT integration, with a track record of leading technical delivery across complex projects.
  • Experience delivering systems across SCADA/EMS/GMS/ADMS; monarch experience is highly preferred.
  • Hands-on depth with client/server applications, network communications, and Linux/Windows; familiarity with programming/scripting Python, C/C++) and databases PostgreSQL, Mongo, Cassandra); experience with JSON and XML.
  • Practical experience with common utility protocols and standards ICCP, DNP3, IEC 60870-5-101/104, IEC 61850, MultiSpeak).
  • Excellent organization, interpersonal, and leadership skills with the ability to manage multiple parallel workstreams in fast-paced environments; strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
  • Ability to travel up to approximately 20%.
  • Work arrangement: Hybrid; primary office Reading, UK.
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