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Sr Electricity Market Optimization Software Engineer

About the position

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).

Responsibilities

  • 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 le 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

Requirements

  • Ph.D. or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering with thesis related work in power systems or Optimization.
  • A minimum of Two (2) years of experience in Power systems Analysis with focus on Electricity Market Optimization application development.
  • Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required.
  • Must be willing to travel 10-20% of the time
  • Must be willing to work out of an office located in Bellevue, WA if the need arises.

Nice-to-haves

  • Strong business knowledge of Wholesale Market Management System, especially PJM, Midwest ISO, Southwest Power Pool, ISO New England or Alberta Electric System Operator.
  • Hands-on experience in developing optimization software designed to manage large scale systems for Unit Commitment and Economic Dispatch problems .
  • 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.
  • 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 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 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.

Benefits

  • medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
  • access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource
  • access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services.
  • GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants.
  • tuition assistance
  • adoption assistance
  • paid parental leave
  • disability benefits
  • life insurance
  • 12 paid holidays
  • permissive time off
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