Software Architect - Electricity Market Systems - SPP

Software Architect - Electricity Market Systems - SPP

Essential Responsibilities:

In this role, you will:

·         Own technical deliverables during the entire lifecycle of the projects.

·         Execute on and serve as technical lead for the implementation of software solutions.

·         Provide expert knowledge and experience to collaborate with the customer to identify technical requirements and estimate the technical effort required to implement complex software solutions.

·         Engage throughout the full lifecycle of assigned projects, influencing decisions on design, and functionality to keep projects on track in terms of budget, time, and customer expectations.

·         Collaborate with Project Managers and Services Consultants throughout the project to identify and scope applications changes while adhering to the change management process.

·         Provide technical support to Wholesale Electricity Market Management (MMS) applications.

·         Effectively leverage product capability, driving standardization, limiting customization, and maximizing reuse of content developed for previous solutions. 

·         Interact with Product Development Team, Commercial Team, Customers, Solution Providers (Partner / Integrators), and other cross-functional teams as required for the solution and implement processes to ensure best use of GE Digital products and services.

·         Perform all installation and/or programming tasks related to agreed interface & conversion specifications and/or application assignments, including agreed upon system tailoring and customizations.

·         Effectively communicate both verbally and in writing with peers and team members as an inclusive team member, supporting pre-sale strategy (as needed) and project execution.

·         Serve as a technical leader or mentor on complex, integrated customer implementations, either within individual project teams and/or cross-organizationally.

·         Work independently as well as part of the team.

·         Work in a self-directed fashion to proactively identify system problems, failures, and areas for improvement.

·         Track issue resolution and document solutions implemented and create troubleshooting guides.

Basic Qualifications:

·         Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field from an accredited university or college.

·         A Ten (10) to Fifteen (15) years of professional experience in Market Management System (MMS) technical lead role.

·         Minimum of Ten (10) years of professional experience working with or for an Independent System Operator (ISO) organization, Market Participant, or wholesale markets vendor.

Technical Expertise:

·         Expert on Market Management Systems.

·         Strong understanding of Unit Commitment and Economic Dispatch.

·         Hands-on experience on analyzing, troubleshooting, and fixing problems on Market Management Systems

·         Strong knowledge of Power System applications.

·         Applies architecture development process & methods at various stages of the project lifecycle.

·         Possesses proven ability to deploy in on-premise and/or cloud-based environments.  

·         Ability to isolate highly complex scenarios down to actionable items and drive solutions.  

·         Coaches others on troubleshooting and problem solving techniques.

·         Strong knowledge on DevOps, GitOps, CI/CD, source control management.

·         Strong knowledge on Git, Maven, Jenkins, Artifactory, and Ansible.

·         familiarity with Kubernetes and containerization.

·         Experience using logging and monitoring tools such as Splunk, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Prometheus and Jaeger.

·         Strong knowledge of Oracle RDBMS desired.  Knowledge of PostgreSQL a plus.

·         Knowledge of Kafka a plus.

·         Understanding of Java programming concepts, awareness of Spring boot, Modern web client (TypeScript or JavaScript), Restful APIs a plus.

Desired Characteristics:

·         End-to-end ownership and accountability for tasks is required, including gathering requirements, completing technical work, documenting, and supporting on delivery.

·         Self-starter; comfortable pulling together information from multiple resources.

·         Excellent analytical and debugging skills, including debugging issues across complex systems involving multiple layers of technology.

·         Demonstrated ability to learn new software development practices, languages, and tools.

·         Excellent and clear communication skills, both written and verbal.

·         Team player, dedicated, detail-oriented and customer focused.

·         Strong interpersonal skills.