Requisition ID # 174877
Job Category: Engineering / Science
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Business Unit: Energy Delivery
Work Type: Hybrid
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Department Overview
The Right-of-Way Risk Reduction Strategy (ROWRS) team within Electric Transmission Engineering establishes a risk-based, technology-enabled approach to identify, prioritize, and resolve electric right-of-way encroachments and clearance issues. The team partners across Electric Operations, Land, Legal, Wildfire Risk, IT, Data and Analytics, and other functions to improve risk visibility, standardize processes, and support sustained reduction of right-of-way risk across PG&E’s service territory.
Position Summary
The Grid Innovation Engineer, Senior serves as the primary bridge between business stakeholders, technology teams, and external partners supporting PG&E's Right-of-Way Risk Reduction Strategy (ROWRS). This role is responsible for translating business objectives into technology requirements, developing strategic roadmaps, and coordinating system enhancements across Salesforce, Palantir Foundry, SAP, GIS platforms, Power BI, and Python-based analytics solutions.
The position will partner with Electric Operations, Land & Environmental Management, Legal, Wildfire Risk, Asset Management, IT, and Data & Analytics teams to design and implement an integrated technology ecosystem that supports identification, prioritization, tracking, and resolution of right-of-way encroachments and minimum clearance violations. The role supports the ROWRS objective of establishing a scalable, standardized, technology-enabled operating model leveraging machine learning, data analytics, and enterprise integrations.
This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned location at least two days a week and or based on business need.
PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.
Bay Area Minimum: $122,000
Bay Area Mid:$158,000
Bay Area Maximum: $194,000
California Minimum:$116,000
California Mid:$150,000
California Maximum:$184,000
This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.
Job Responsibilities
Product Development (35%)
Develops new approaches, processes, and tools by modifying existing solutions.
Manages a complex product or service offering that may combine elements of emerging and core products, or with complexities associated with vendor, regulatory, or customer factors.
Manages to KPIs.
Contributes to development of product roadmaps.
Presents findings and recommendations to function management.
Technology Strategy & Roadmap Planning (30%)
Develop multi-year technology roadmaps supporting ROWRS program objectives.
Define and sequence technology capabilities required to support program growth.
Evaluate business impacts, dependencies, implementation risks, and integration requirements.
Partner with Enterprise Architecture and IT teams to align solutions with corporate technology standards.
Support business case development, investment planning, and funding requests for technology initiatives.
Evaluate existing and emerging technologies—including GIS, LiDAR, spatial analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, automation, enterprise applications, and data platforms—for technical applicability to ROW risk reduction use cases.
Lead or support technology pilots, proofs of concept, prototypes, and emerging technology evaluations to validate technical feasibility, scalability, and operational viability.
Evaluate business impacts, dependencies, implementation risks, business continuity considerations, operational risk, data dependencies, and integration requirements.
Partner with Enterprise Architecture and IT teams to align solutions with corporate technology standards.
Platform Integration & Solution Delivery (20%)
Understand the various data streams that are needed to model encroachment risk
Act as business lead and product owner for technology initiatives involving:
Salesforce Case management
Workflow automation
Customer outreach tracking
Resolution management
Palantir Foundry Data integration
Operational data products
Analytics workflows
Risk model operationalization
SAP Asset data integration
Financial reporting
Work management interfaces
Master data management
GIS Platforms Spatial analytics
Encroachment identification
Asset proximity analysis
Mapping and visualization
Python Analytics Risk scoring models
Data quality automation
Predictive analytics
Workflow automation
Power BI Executive dashboards
KPI reporting
Portfolio management reporting
Risk and performance analytics
Program Governance & Stakeholder Management (15%)
Serve as primary interface between business organizations and technology delivery teams.
Coordinate across program managers, product owners, architects, developers, and analysts.
Explore, innovate, and demonstrate technologies that facilitate risk management
Communicate project status, risks, issues, decisions, and dependencies.
Support organizational change management and user adoption efforts.
Qualifications
Minimum:
Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, Data Analytics, or related field.
5+ years of experience in IT engineering design and/or technical project implementation, OR Master’s degree and 8 years of experience in IT engineering design and/or technical project implementation.
Experience with multi-tier enterprise technology environments
Experience working with staff across diverse IT disciplines.
Implementation experience with process design, information modeling or system architecture within a core business area of a utility.
Experience gathering and documenting business requirements.
Experience leading cross-functional technology initiatives.
Experience supporting utility, infrastructure, asset management, wildfire risk, or operational programs preferred.
Desired:
Master’s degree
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
Salesforce
Palantir Foundry
SAP
Esri ArcGIS
Power BI
SQL
Python
Azure Data Services
Data governance and master data management
Machine learning and predictive analytics
Executive communication and presentation skills
Strategic planning and roadmap development
Facilitation and stakeholder engagement
Conflict resolution and negotiation
Change management
Functional knowledge: Electrical utility operations
Asset management processes
Land rights, easements, or right-of-way programs
Risk management and mitigation programs
Regulatory compliance programs :
Success Measures
Within the first 12-18 months, the successful candidate will:
Deliver a comprehensive ROWRS technology roadmap.
Establish business requirements and governance processes for major platform enhancements.
Enable integration between Salesforce, Foundry, SAP, and GIS data sources.
Support deployment of analytics and reporting capabilities that improve risk visibility.
Reduce manual processes through workflow automation and system integration.
Improve data quality, traceability, and executive reporting across the ROWRS program.
Help establish scalable technology capabilities supporting long-term operationalization of the ROWRS strategy.