Senior Application Engineer

Role Summary 

The AVEVA AIM Senior Application Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, administering, and optimizing AVEVA Asset Information Management (AIM) solutions across the asset lifecycle. This role partners with business stakeholders, engineering disciplines, and IT to deliver governed, searchable, and trusted digital asset data and documents—integrated with upstream/downstream systems (e.g., E3D, P&ID, AVEVA ERM/AIM, EDMS/DMS, CMMS, and ERP). 

Key Responsibilities 

Solution Design and Delivery 

• Translate business requirements into AIM configurations, metadata models, and workflows. 

• Configure AIM Projects, Object Types, Classes, Attributes, Taxonomies, and Security. 

• Design and implement document/data ingestion pipelines (bulk load, transmittals, API-based). 

• Set up search facets, saved searches, dashboards, and reports for end users. 

• Define and implement governance: naming/tagging conventions, revision/control, status codes. 

Administration and Operations 

• Install, upgrade, and patch AIM environments; manage environments (DEV/TEST/PROD). 

• Administer users/roles/permissions; integrate with SSO/LDAP/AD. 

• Monitor performance, indexing, storage, and archival; tune for scale and resiliency. 

• Own backup/restore, disaster recovery procedures, and routine health checks. 

• Create and maintain runbooks, SOPs, and environment documentation. 

Integration and Data Quality 

• Integrate AIM with AVEVA tools (E3D, P&ID via SMM/3D Integrator, Engineering Data Warehouse) and third-party systems (EDMS, SharePoint, CMMS like SAP PM/Maximo, ERP). 

• Build/maintain connectors, APIs, and ETL scripts; define canonical data mappings. 

• Execute data migration/cleansing, deduplication, and metadata enrichment initiatives. 

• Implement validation rules, QA checks, and exception handling for ingestion. 

Enablement and Support 

• Provide L2/L3 support, problem root-cause analysis, and defect resolution. 

• Deliver user training, onboarding, quick reference guides, and best-practice playbooks. 

• Champion adoption through demos, roadshows, and stakeholder engagement. 

Governance and Delivery Excellence 

• Contribute to standards, templates, and accelerators for repeatable deployments. 

• Apply CI/CD practices to utilities and configurations (version control, packaging, releases). 

• Track KPIs (search success rate, time-to-retrieve, ingestion SLAs, data completeness). 

• Ensure compliance with information security and regulatory requirements. 

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field. 

• 5–8+ years of experience with AVEVA AIM (or AVEVA NET) in implementation/administration roles. 

• Hands-on with: 

• AIM configuration: metadata models, class libraries, attributes, security, workflows. 

• Data/document ingestion: loaders, transmittals, bulk import, OCR/metadata extraction. 

• Integrations: REST APIs, AVEVA connectors, scripting (PowerShell/Python/C#), ETL tools. 

• Identity and access management: AD/LDAP, SSO (SAML/OIDC). 

• Environment management: installation, upgrades, patches, performance tuning. 

• Strong understanding of asset lifecycle and engineering information (tags, documents, revisions, WBS, discipline data). 

• Proven experience in data migration, quality rules, and governance frameworks. 

• Excellent troubleshooting skills and stakeholder communication. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience integrating AIM with: 

• AVEVA E3D, P&ID (via SMM/3D Integrator), ERM/AIM modules, and Engineering Data Warehouse. 

• EDMS/DMS (e.g., SharePoint), CMMS (SAP PM, IBM Maximo), and ERP (SAP). 

• Knowledge of industry standards: ISO 15926, CFIHOS, ISO 19650, API/NORSOK as applicable. 

• Exposure to cloud deployments (Azure/AWS), containers, and managed databases. 

• CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps/GitLab/Jenkins for utilities and config packaging. 

• Scripting and automation: PowerShell, Python; familiarity with SQL. 

• Experience in Energy, Marine, or Oil & Gas projects (greenfield/brownfield, handover). 

• Certifications: AVEVA product certifications, ITIL Foundation, Azure/AWS Associate. 

Soft Skills 

• Client-facing consulting presence; ability to translate needs into solutions. 

• Structured documentation and clear communication. 

• Ownership mindset with proactive risk/issue management. 

• Ability to lead and mentor junior engineers and collaborate in cross-functional teams. 

Success Metrics 

• On-time, on-scope AIM deployments with agreed KPIs. 

• Reduction in document/tag retrieval time and increase in data completeness/accuracy. 

• Stable environments with minimal unplanned downtime and clear recovery posture. 

• Positive user adoption scores and reduced L2/L3 incident volume over time.