Sr. Software Engineer - WAMS

Sr. Staff Software Engineer - WAMS, GE Vernova

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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 the need for our solutions/products to interoperate in the GridOS world.

• Represent the forefront of high-quality solution design and delivery practices for advanced power system applications.
• Implement new functionalities and workflows within power system application software, including EMS, WAMS, and DTS applications.
• Maintain power systems application functionality through code fixes, documentation, and user interface enhancements.
• Collaborate with system and project engineers, frontend developers, and application developers to deliver solutions aligned with product strategy.
• Consult with other Engineering technical leads to ensure adherence to project-related system design guidelines and author functional software designs.
• Provide input to leadership team regarding schedules and cost estimates, interface with customers to address issues, and support marketing efforts through proposals and demonstrations for prospective clients.
• Mentor interns and junior staff.

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering with thesis or related work in power systems.

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

• Experience in the power systems area.
• Excellent programming skills in C++, Java or other related language; 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 presentations 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.

• 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.
• Balances value propositions for competing stakeholders; recommends a well-researched recommendation of buy vs. build solution; conveys the value proposition by assessing financial risks and gains; manages the process of building and maintaining a successful alliance; applies analytical techniques such as ROI, SWOT, Gap analyses; articulates business drivers.

• Influences through others; builds support for ideas; pre-emptively sees downstream consequences; uses experts or third parties; verbalizes decisions and downstream implications; reflects on success and failures to improve performance; participates in technical strategy planning.
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles on behalf of the team; navigates accountability in a…