Description
Job Purpose
The Principal Developer – Aspen designs, develops, tests, and supports Manufacturing Execution System (MES) solutions using Aspen Manufacturing Suite.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, configure, develop, and implement MES solutions using Aspen Manufacturing Suite.
- Translate business and manufacturing requirements into technical solutions by developing and maintaining system integrations, database objects, and custom applications to support business needs.
- Perform testing, deployment, and validation activities to ensure system reliability and compliance.
- Troubleshoot and resolve MES application issues and provide production support.
- Use approved development and AI-assisted tools to improve productivity and solution quality.
- Ensure compliance with GxP, data integrity, cybersecurity, and company standards.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, design specifications, and support materials.
- Contribute to standardization, best practices, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Collaborate with business users, project teams, and vendors to successfully deliver MES projects while providing technical guidance, mentoring, and knowledge sharing to team members.
- Participate in system upgrades, enhancements, and lifecycle management activities.
- Develop expertise across MES platforms, software technologies, and AI tools to effectively support and deliver solutions across multiple MES systems.
- Use AI-assisted development as the default way of coding, testing, reviewing, and documenting, and validate all AI-generated output for quality, security, data integrity, and GxP before release.
- Implement version control and automated build, test, and deployment practices where supported, achieving improved release quality and deployment efficiency.
- Monitor production performance, proactively identify and eliminate root causes of issues, reducing recurring incidents and improving system reliability and availability.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Automation, Data, Life Sciences, or a relevant technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Relevant technical, AI, cloud, integration, automation, data, validation, cyber security, or engineering certifications.
- Minimum 7+ years of hands-on technical engineering experience in complex enterprise or operational technology environments.
- Experience in Aspen Manufacturing Suite MES and the ability to work across multiple MES platforms.
- Experience in leading MES solution delivery across products, platforms, and sites.
- Experience in software development, database technologies, and system integrations within manufacturing or enterprise environments.
- Experience in industrial connectivity technologies such as OPC UA (Unified Architecture)/OPC HDA (Historical Data Access) and manufacturing system integrations.
- Experience in technical review, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
- Experience in coordinating cross-functional teams and vendors to deliver compliant solutions that can be operated and scaled.
- Experience in managing technical risk, ensuring data integrity, GxP compliance, and supporting audits and inspections.
- Experience in mentoring engineers and supporting technical best practices and standardization.
- Experience in using AI-assisted development tools and applying software quality, security, compliance, and maintainability controls.