The PI Analyst supports pharmaceutical manufacturing operations by leveraging OSIsoft PI (AVEVA PI System) and process-data analytics to optimize production performance, ensure data integrity, and drive continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities-

• Responsible for the design, implementation, configuration, and support of AVEVA PI System solutions (formerly OSIsoft PI) for real-time data projects.

• Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure successful deployment and maintenance of industrial data systems that enable operational insights and digital transformation.
• Design, configure, and implement AVEVA PI System components including PI Server, PI Asset PI framework (AF), PI Vision, PI Interfaces and Connectors
• Develop and maintain PI AF models, templates, hierarchies, calculations, and analytics to support business use cases.
• Design and deploy PI Vision dashboards for operations, engineering, and management teams.
• Perform system upgrades, patching, backup/restore, and architecture optimizations.
• Troubleshoot PI infrastructure issues including interfaces, connectors, AF performance, and data quality.
• Support data governance, security, and compliance across historian data pipelines.
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Produce technical documentation, configuration specifications, and design packages.
• Builds governed data models and datasets for analytics and reporting (Power BI).
• Designs and implements data pipelines, PI tags, AF templates, event frames, and calculations.
• Ensures data quality, metadata standards, naming conventions, and data governance.
• Develops dashboards, KPIs, and visualizations based on operational & business needs.
• Ensures secure access, data integrity, and (when needed) CSV/validation compliance.
• Troubleshoots data issues, monitors data flows, and maintains historian/BI performance.
• Ensure ALCOA+, Part 11, Annex 11 compliance.
• Proficiency in PI AF, PI Vision, PI Interfaces, and PI Data Archive
• Integrate equipment, SCADA/DCS, MES, and utilities into PI.
• Experience in Regulated pharmaceutical industry and GXP knowledge is a must.

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