Programmer Developer - II, Senior, or Lead - Remote Eligible

Programmer Developer - II, Senior, or Lead - Remote Eligible

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.

Southwest Power Pool (SPP) is about more than power. We’re about the power of relationships. Our employees have the opportunity to work together to ensure electricity is delivered reliably and affordably to the millions of people living in our service territory.

We have a core ideology here at SPP that we stand by:
Do the right thing, for the right reason, in the right way.

We believe in supporting our employees through a fantastic benefits package:

• Competitive pay with bonus opportunities
• Excellent insurance package including three great medical plans to choose from, employer-paid short term disability, long term disability, and life insurance
• Relocation assistance
• Flexible working environment for positions that are eligible where employees have the flexibility to work from home and come in where collaborative in person work is needed.
• Fantastic contributions to your retirement through a 401(k) savings plan with employer-match benefits and a defined benefit plan fully funded by SPP

The salary range(s) represents our good faith estimate for the role at this time. While we strive to provide competitive and transparent compensation, there may be circumstances where an offer is above or outside of the listed range.

Lead Programmer Developer | Pay Range: $ - $
Senior Programmer Developer| Pay Range: $95,200.00 - $
Programmer/Developer II | Pay Range: $76,000.00 - $96,900.00

Join SPP as a Programmer Developer – Build the Future of Financial Technology

At Southwest Power Pool (SPP), our IT teams are driving innovation at the core of the energy industry’s financial operations. We're looking for Programmer Developers to join our growing teams—across both Financial Applications and IT Settlements
—where you'll play a key role in shaping mission-critical systems that support credit management, regulatory rates, financial settlements, and congestion hedging auctions.

What You'll Do

• Participate in the design, development, support, and maintenance of applications and databases that power financial operations.
• Enhance and support custom and vendor applications used to facilitate:
  • Financial settlements for SPP's regional transmission organization (RTO) and contract services
  • Transmission congestion rights auctions
  • Collateral and credit management
  • Regulatory rate calculations
  • Network upgrade cost sharing
• Collaborate across the full software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to deployment and support.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders and external vendors to deliver scalable, efficient, and compliant solutions.
• Identify automation opportunities to streamline operations and improve reliability.

To be successful as the Programmer Developer, we're looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, related field, or equivalent work experience
• Lead Programmer Developer - Ten (10) years of applicable Information Technology Development/Support experience
• Senior Programmer Developer - Six (6) years of applicable Information Technology Development/Support experience
• Programmer Developer II - Three (3) years experience of Information Technology Development/Support experience
• Competent and effective working knowledge of Microsoft Windows, Unix or Linux operating systems, application development and support, and database management systems
• Competent and effective troubleshooting, problem solving, and analytical skills
• Competent and effective written and oral communication skills
• Competent understanding and effective working knowledge of SDLC and project life cycle methods and practices
• Good customer service and organization skills

Preferred

• Two (2) or more years applicable utility industry experience
• Java, Springboot, React
• SQL, Extract Transform Load (ETL)
• Containers, Kubernetes, Docker
• Scripting experience:
  Python, Powershell, Perl, Shell scripting
• Web Service / REST / SOAP / WSDL / XSD Experience
• Ansible, JIRA, Bitbucket, and Jenkins Experience
• Mongo
  
  DB, Oracle PL/SQL or Microsoft SQL Development Experience

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