Sr Electricity Market Optimization Software Engineer

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In this role, you will work closely with a team of 8-15 people who are responsible for enhancing, evolving, and supporting large on‑premise highly‑available Electricity Market Management System (MMS). The team includes power systems, database, software, and optimization engineers.

As a Senior Electricity Market Optimization Software Engineer, you will contribute and lead advanced Power Systems Application software design, development, testing, integration and tuning to meet project and/or product commitments. The projects mainly consist of developing power system features for Electric Utilities, Independent System Operators (ISOs) and Transmission System Operators (TSOs).

• 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

• 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 Six (6) years of experience in Electricity Markets, Security Constrained Unit Commitment and Economic Dispatch using Mixed Integer Programming (MIP), or Power System Analysis applications.

• PhD in Electrical Engineering with thesis or related work in power systems, plus Three (3) years 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 Git Hub in particular.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new software development practices, languages, and tools.
• Self‑starter; comfortable pulling together information from multiple resources.

• 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.

• Great at helping others understand and adopt new Dev Ops 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…