Power System Engineer

Sr. Staff Software Engineer – WAMS

100% Remote

12-month Contract-to-hire

About Job

Join a team of highly skilled power system professionals with specialized expertise and extensive knowledge of the utility industry. You are responsible for power system applications, ensuring these power system tools deliver operational effectiveness for our T&D and WAMS customers, and drive successful project outcomes for our GridOS and Performance product lines.

Through close collaboration with customers—addressing challenges and communicating in their terms—you drive the ground-level innovation and conceptualize new power system operational workflows as the grid evolves to support bi-directional energy flows and need for our solutions/products to interoperate in the GridOS world.

Roles and Responsibilities

• As a member of the Power Systems group, you will represent the forefront of high-quality solution design and delivery practices for advanced power system applications. You will implement new functionalities and workflows within power system application software, including EMS (Energy Management System), WAMS (Wide Area Management System), and DTS (Dispatcher Training Simulator) applications.
• Your responsibilities will include maintaining power systems application functionality through code fixes, documentation, and user interface enhancements. You will collaborate with system and project engineers, frontend developers, and application developers to deliver solutions aligned with product strategy.
• You will consult with other Engineering technical leads to ensure adherence to project-related system design guidelines and will be responsible for authoring functional software designs. Additionally, you will provide input to leadership team regarding schedules and cost estimates, interface with customers to address both general and specific issues within your area of expertise, and support marketing efforts through proposals and demonstrations for prospective clients. You will also mentor interns and junior staff.

Minimum Education Requirements:

• Degree in Electrical Engineering with thesis or related work in power systems.

Minimum Experience Requirements:

• Requires 5 - 10 years development or delivery experience of Advanced Power System applications.
• Require 4 years of experience in developing or delivering WAMS based applications.

Desired Characteristics

Technical Expertise:

• Work and/or academic experience in the power systems area.
• Excellent programming skills in C++, Java or other related language, as required. Good understanding of database operation.
• Excellent knowledge of assigned technical area and a strong overview of the AEMS or WAMS area.
• Good understanding of power systems and/or energy management systems with focus on transmission Network Applications like State Estimation, Contingency Analysis, Optimal Power Flow or Dispatcher training Simulator
• Knowledge and experience with electric utility industry practices
• Strong knowledge of customer perspective and needs.
• Proven software design skills at the application and technical area level.
• Ability to see integration issues and to preclude schedule impacts.
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills. Ability to write professional and technical reports and procedures. Ability to make formal and informal presentation to technical and non-technical staff and customers.
• Ability to work independently and be self-motivated.
• Demonstrates a high degree of personal and professional integrity.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Business Acumen:

• Evaluates technology to drive features and roadmaps. Maps technology trends to internal vision. Differentiates buzzwords from value proposition. Embraces technology trends that drive excellence beyond traditional practices (e.g., Test automation in lieu of traditional QA practices).
• Balances value propositions for competing stakeholders. Recommends a well-researched recommendation of buy vs. build solution. Conveys the value proposition for the company by assessing financial risks and gains of decisions and return on investment (ROI). Manages the process of building and maintaining a successful alliance. Understands and successfully applies common analytical techniques, including ROI, SWOT, and Gap analyses. Able to clearly articulate the business drivers relevant to a given initiative.

Leadership:

• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas. Pre-emptively sees downstream consequences and effectively tailors influencing strategy to support a positive outcome. Uses experts or other third parties to influence.
• Able to verbalize what is behind decisions and downstream implications. Continuously reflecting on success and failures to improve performance and decision-making. Understands when change is needed. Participates in technical strategy planning.
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team. Able to navigate accountability in a matrixed organization.
• Communicates and demonstrates a shared sense of purpose. Learns from failure.

Personal Attributes:

• Able to effectively direct and mentor others in critical thinking skills. Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking and analysis skills and best practices. Finds important patterns in seemingly unrelated information.
• Influences and energizes other 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 GEV. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.