Senior Full Stack Developer, Portland General Electric Company, US

At PGE, our work involves dreaming about, planning for, and realizing a smarter, cleaner, more enduring Oregon neighborhood. Its core to our DNA and we haven’t stopped since we started in 1888. We energize lives, strengthen communities and drive advancements in energy that promote social, economic and environmental progress. We’re always on the lookout for people passionate about leading and being a part of teams that are advancing innovative clean energy solutions that are also affordable and accessible to all.

SENIOR FULL STACK DEVELOPER

JOB FUNCTION SUMMARY

PGE seeks a Senior Level Full Stack Developer/Analyst with a strong background in software development, cloud, database, and data science exposure to support its Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) business technology platform. This position will be responsible to analyzing, recommending, and implementing cloud technology and analytical solutions that will further increase the capability, effectiveness and efficiency required by PGE to enjoy continued success within the energy trading and risk management business arena.  This highly visible position will work with other teams with evolving the future of the platform that brings people, processes and technology together drive success on behalf of all PGE constituents to include Customers, Shareholders, Employees, and the Environment.

KEY JOB INFORMATION

Senior Application Developer 6015

Grade 8
Career Level: P4

Specialist Professional Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise. Interprets internal or external business issues and recommends best practices. Solves complex problems; takes a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions. Works independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations. May lead functional teams or projects.

ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

The energy sector is undergoing rapid and complex transformation, shaped by regulatory, policy, economic, technology, social and climate forces. In this role, you will help senior I.T. leadership and key business partners to understand, quantify and act upon uncertainty in an increasingly complex and data-driven business landscape.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Collaborate with key stakeholders to define the conception of our in-house risk and analytic frameworks
• Design and construct risk management tools used in evaluating and managing company's risk and position profile and exposure levels
• Develop techniques enabling Data Management and Analysis, Advanced Analytics, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence business solutions
• Monitoring and analyzing market information to identify opportunities to maximize our technology stack and reduce costs
• Specifies and designs large or complex systems. Selects appropriate design standards, methods and tools consistent with agreed enterprise and solution architectures and ensures they are applied effectively. Reviews others' systems design to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology. Contributes to policy for selection of architecture components. Evaluates and undertakes impact analysis on major design options and assesses and manages associated risks. Ensures that the system design balances functional, service quality, security and systems management requirements.
• Designs and builds integration components and interfaces. Leads practical integration work under the technical direction of the system/service designer. May contribute to the overall design of the service. May define the technical criteria for product/component selection. Contributes to decisions about tools, methods and approaches.
• Review, analyze and discuss the technology decisions, identifying the underlying risks, proposing alternatives and/or mitigation strategies
• Drafts and maintains procedures and documentation for applications support. Manages application enhancements to improve business performance. Advises on application security, licensing, upgrades, backups and disaster-recovery needs. Ensures that all requests for support are dealt with according to set standards and procedures.
• Ensures that incidents are handled according to agreed procedures. Investigates escalated incidents to responsible service owners and seeks resolution. Facilitates recovery following resolution of incidents. Ensures that resolved incidents are properly documented and closed. Analyzes causes of incidents and informs service owners to minimize probability of recurrence and contribute to service improvement. Analyzes metrics and reports on performance of incident-management process.
• Support the development of innovative commercial structures to meet customer needs and to facilitate the development of new business models within our technology ecosystem
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams by owning the complete software development cycle from conception through deployment, ensuring applications are maintained and upgraded post launch.
• Creating reports on an ad hoc basis
• Prepare internal analysis to drive decision making

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

To achieve success, the individual filling this role must bring a combination of expert technical skills and business acumen, effective communication and influence skills and an ability to quickly establish trust and credibility with other teams, both business and technology.

Strong candidates will have:

• BS Degree or above in Computer Science, Data Science or related discipline
• 3+ years experience with AWS cloud development environment building and deploying scalable applications using a variety of Amazon Web Services EC2, S3, Lambda, etc.
• 5+ years’ experience with Python, JavaScript, Node.js, XmL, Web-services.
• Ability to model database Schema’s in a data lake, warehouse, or lake environment using Snowflake or other tools (Data Bricks, Redshift, etc.…)
• 3+ years using front end development tools, working with business intelligence tools (such as Tableau or Power BI).  
• Ability to drive recommendations and selections of new technologies.
• Able to interact with a diverse eco-system to create best of breed ETL solutions from batch to real-time processing of transactions to data store.
• Able to make recommendations on improvements to our data architecture
• Exposure to ML/AI and Statistical modeling in a Utility or trading organization.
• Familiar with Energy (or Commodities Trading) valuation and analysis of energy trading derivatives, pricing of structured products
• Ability to work with cross functional teams and consultants in a mid-sized to large organization.
• Nice to have would be able to work with Energy or financial trading systems and exposure to ML/AI.
• Excellent interpersonal and strong communication skills by working with other developers, business users, data governance teams, testers, and analysts to ensure the business needs and goals are met
• Ability to clearly document technical designs.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/CERTIFICATIONS

Education Requires a bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, engineering, management or other related field or equivalent experience.

Experience Typically eight or more years in related field.

COMPETENCIES

Functional Competencies

Advanced knowledge of business goals and scope of change initiatives

Advanced knowledge of user experience design frameworks

Advanced knowledge of change management processes

Advanced knowledge of software configuration

Advanced knowledge of operating system concepts

Advanced knowledge of database concepts

Intermediate knowledge of infrastructure concepts

Advanced knowledge of service continuity planning and support

General Competencies

Advanced customer-focus skills

Advanced accuracy skills

Advanced risk-management skills

Advanced oral and written communication skills

Advanced interpersonal skills

Advanced decision-making skills

Advanced organization and prioritization skills

Advanced meeting facilitation skills

Advanced team-building skills

PHYSICAL AND CONGNITIVE DEMANDS

Cognitive Level

Substantial: Consistent use of logic or scientific thinking to define problems, collect information, establish facts and draw valid conclusions (for example, engineer, HR director, plant manager, etc.).

Cognitive

Ability to adhere to set response times, deadlines and time-sensitive tasks

Ability to follow accuracy standards

Ability to follow through on decision-making tasks

Ability to interact effectively and collaboratively within a team environment

Ability to communicate and problem solve when under stress

Ability to respond and adapt to frequent change

Ability to accept and demonstrate self-awareness when provided constructive feedback

Ability to discern feedback and acknowledge ownership of areas of improvement

Ability to avoid future mistakes by applying reasonable skills to new but similar work situations or tasks

Ability to successfully collaborate with peers, managers and others within the organization

Demonstrates sound memory

Ability to process new information to be applied consistently to work tasks

SCHEDULE/ATTENDANCE

Ability to adhere to pre-established schedule, including start/stop time and break/lunch schedule

Ability to work long hours

Ability to work a variable schedule

Ability to report to work and perform work during periods of severe inclement weather

Ability to consistently meet attendance standards for regular, reliable, predictable, full-time attendance

Ability to work shift schedule

Ability to work on-call schedule

PHYSICAL CAPABILITIES

• Driving/travel/commute: Daily within service territory - Frequently (at least once a week or more)
• Computer use (use computer regularly for entire work shift)

Environment - Indoor/Outdoor

• Office 

Compensation Range:

Actual total compensation, including a performance based incentive bonus, is commensurate with experience, skills, qualifications, education, training, and internal equity. While we anticipate the selected candidate for this position will fall towards the middle or entry point of the compensation range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis.

PGE believes in rewarding dedicated performance. We provide a total rewards package that is designed to reward your contributions to the company, and, at the same time, support your well-being and professional development, both now and into the future. To find out more, click here.

Join us today and power your potential!

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PGE is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to fostering a workplace where employees feel connected, valued, and empowered to thrive. PGE will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.

PGE does not discriminate on the basis of disability. We recognize individuals have a variety of abilities to offer and we believe there is much to value and celebrate by incorporating different abilities into the work we do. One very important way we live this out is in our application and interview process. We work hard to support individuals who may need an accommodation to fully participate in these processes. If you feel you may need an accommodation, or would like to request one, please notify the Recruiter associated with the job posting. You may also make this request by contacting talentacquisition@pgn.com or by calling 503-464-7250. The Recruiter will provide information and next steps for the accommodation process. 

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