Sr. Software Engineer - Electricity Market Optimization w/Remote Option

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Be responsible for defining, developing, and evolving software in a fast paced and agile development environment using the latest software development technologies and infrastructure

• Provide domain knowledge and/or technical leadership to a team of electricity markets application software engineers

• Lead and contribute to electricity market application development and ensure software delivery is on schedule, within budget and meets or exceeds customer expectations

• Write documents such as design notes, testing procedures, etc.

• Provide budgetary estimate for new project tasks to project leads and project managers • Work with customer throughout the project life cycle to ensure the software meets customer’s quality standards and functional requirements.

• Mentor junior team members

• Interact with Product Development Team, Customers, Solution Providers (Partner / Integrators), and other cross-functional teams as required.

• Apply principles of SDLC and methodologies like Lean/Agile/XP, CI, software and product security, scalability, documentation practices, refactoring, and testing techniques

• Willingness to travel 10-20% of the time.

The compensation range mentioned is for candidates placed in the Bellevue, WA market. Other compensation will be reviewed upon candidate selection if they reside in other markets and work remote.

Required Qualification

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering with thesis or related work in power systems OR in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)

• A minimum of Four (4) years of experience in Electricity Markets, Security Constrained Unit Commitment and Economic Dispatch using Mixed Integer Programming (MIP), or Power System Analysis applications (must have at least 1 component in this section)

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Desired Characteristics

• PhD in Electrical Engineering or related work in power systems, plus One (1) year of experience in development or project delivery experience in Electricity Market field.

• Continuous improvement oriented; actively generates process improvements, champions and drives change initiatives.

• Highly organized and efficient; able to balance competing priorities and execute accordingly.

• Strong understanding of Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP).

• Experience with testing and test automation.

• Strong knowledge of source control management and GitHub in particular.

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

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

Leadership

• Serves as a mentor to newer team members in support of business goals and objectives.

• Continuously measures the completion rate of personal deliverables and compares them to the scheduled commitments.

• Provides transparency into problem solving approach and options. Demonstrates ability to determine fair and reasonable outcomes with shared tradeoffs.

• Demonstrates ability to define requirements and collaborate on solutions, leveraging personal technical knowledge and network of experts. Communication style encourages effective interaction with customer and cross-functional teams. Leverages knowledge of product capability to mitigate risk and drive desired outcome.

Personal Attributes

• Great at helping others understand and adopt new DevOps skills and practices – both within your work team and with the customer.

• Detailed oriented and expect software systems to be organized and automated.

• Curiosity drives your learning. You naturally work to extend your sphere of knowledge of the greater system within which your components are a part.

• Comfortable planning and completing your own work. You can run with a list of tasks to be done, but also know when to ask questions.

• Influences and energizes others toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable.

• Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value to GE. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.

Note
To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements, it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years' experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA, to ensure compliance with applicable legislation, the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.

This Job Description is intended to provide a high level guide to the role. However, it is not intended to amend or otherwise restrict/expand the duties required from each individual employee as set out in their respective employment contract and/or as otherwise agreed between an employee and their manager.