Sr Staff Software Engineer

Job Description Summary The person in this role will be the technical team lead and the point of contact between the PM Architect and People leader. This person will work closely with the Product Owner to break down features into detailed technical work chunks that will be implemented by the team members. This person will oversee the detailed technical designs of the individual features.
This person will need to fully understand the Modeling ecosystem and where it fits in the GridOS context.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Serve as technical lead for the Modeling Development team: Single point of contact about technical development aspects for the Architect PO Scrum Master and Team Manager owns onboarding and ramp-up processes for the team members owns efficiency and quality of the development process.
• Responsible for the quality of the development in terms of software performances code quality test automation code coverage CI/CD and documentation.
• Oversee the detailed technical designs of the individual features.
• High level estimates of the different features of the products.
• Owns technical deliverables during the entire lifecycle of the products.
• Keep the products development lifecycle on track in terms of budget time and quality.
• Keep track of developments happening within GridOS ecosystem and build bridges with other engineering and services teams.
• Interact with Services teams and partner integrator teams to provide processes to ensure best use of GridOS Modeling products and services.
• Effectively communicate both verbally and in writing with peers and team members as an inclusive team member.
• Serves as a technical leader or mentor on complex integrated implementations within the GridOS Modeling product teams.
• 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.
• Peer review of Pull Requests.

Education Qualification

For roles outside USA: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or u201CSTEMu201D Majors (Science Technology Engineering and Math) with significant experience.

For roles in USA: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or u201CSTEMu201D Majors (Science Technology Engineering and Math)

Years of experience: 8+ years

Desired Characteristics

Technical Expertise:

• Strong understanding of OOP concepts
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and microservices architectures
• Containers technology
• Strong expertise in JAVA and Python Maven and Springboot framework
• REST API (OpenAPI) and event design
• GraphQL schemas & services design
• Graph technologies and frameworks: Apache Jena / Neo4J / GraphDB
• Experience with RDF and SPARQL
• Unit and integration tests design
• CI/CD pipelines designs
• JSON & YAML Schemas
• Events driven architecture
• Data streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka
• Microservice observability and metrics
• Integration skills
• Autonomous and able to work asynchronously (due to time zone difference)
• Software & API documentation

Good to have

• Data engineering and data architecture expertise
• Apache Camel & Apache Arrow
• Experience in Grid or Energy software business (AEMS / ADMS / Energy Markets / SCADA / GIS)

Business Acumen:

• Adept at navigating the organizational matrix; understanding people's roles can foresee obstacles identify workarounds leverage resources and rally teammates.
• Understand how internal and/or external business model works and facilitate active customer engagement
• Able to articulate the value of what is most important to the business/customer to achieve outcomes
• Able to produce functional area information in sufficient detail for cross-functional teams to utilize using presentation and storytelling concepts.
• Possess extensive knowledge of full solution catalog within a business unit and proficiency in discussing each area at an advanced level.
• Six Sigma Green Belt Certification or equivalent quality certification.

Leadership:

• Demonstrated working knowledge of internal organization
• Foresee obstacles identify workarounds leverage resources rally teammates.
• Demonstrated ability to work with and/or lead blended teams including 3rd party partners and customer personnel.
• Demonstrated Change Management /Acceleration capabilities
• Strong interpersonal skills including creativity and curiosity with ability to effectively communicate and influence across all organizational levels
• Proven analytical and problem resolution skills
• Ability to influence and build consensus with other Information Technology (IT) teams and leadership.

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.

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