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PacifiCorp

Software Engineer (2, 3 or Senior) Portland, OR / Salt Lake City, UT -

PacifiCorp, Portland, Oregon, United States, 97204


Date:

Jul 20, 2024Location:

PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232Company:

PacifiCorpJoin Our Team!PacifiCorp is seeking customer-centric candidates to grow and sustain our commitment to a culture of customer service excellence, environmental sustainability, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.General Purpose

This position is on the Berkshire Hathaway Energy Transmission and Distribution (T&D) IT application team. The team comprises software engineers, systems analysts, and quality assurance professionals providing development, system integration, and support for critical utility industry enterprise applications. Our team supports several business units, which include electrical grid operations, grid technology, grid reliability, distribution operations, transmission operations, and system control. Technologies and systems include OMS, DMS, ADMS, FLISR, and DERMS, supporting the electrical distribution system, fault circuit indicators, and field distributed energy resources (rooftop solar, batteries, EV). The ultimate goal is to provide our nearly 5M customers with reliable, resilient, efficient energy safely and securely.This role will involve managing existing in-house-developed transmission applications, interfaces, and vendor applications and contributing to a significant new initiative within the PacifiCorp Energy Supply organization.We seek a talented Software Engineer with Software Development Engineering Test (SDET) experience to join our team. As an SDET, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our software products.Responsibilities

The responsibilities of the Software Eng 2 position include:Design, code, test, and implement complex programs; develop appropriate programs and systems documentation according to established IT standards.Enhance existing systems; participate in client walkthroughs and technical design reviews.Aid in systems development planning and monitoring.Participate in design reviews and peer code walkthroughs.Provide client and software support.Participate in development and ensure conformance to performance optimization and interoperability standards and requirements.Act as a subject matter resource and consult with clients and IT in support of the company's IT strategy and overarching business requirements.Collaborate with IT teams to identify technical deficits and improvement opportunities in current practices and procedures.Apply industry standard techniques as appropriate such as automated unit testing, test-driven development, continuous integration, and iterative development.In addition to the above, the responsibilities of the Software Eng 3 position include:May act as senior contributor or technical lead on small to mid-sized projects.Design, code, test, and implement complex programs.Enhance existing systems; participate in client walkthroughs and technical design reviews.Act as a subject matter resource and consult with clients and IT in support of the company's IT strategy and overarching business requirements.Collaborate with IT teams to identify technical deficits and improvement opportunities in current practices and procedures.In addition to the above, the responsibilities of the Sr Software Eng position include:Architects, designs, codes, tests, documents, implements, and maintains more complex application programs and interfaces.Provides technical support; problem determination and investigation; implementation of upgrades for developed applications.Perform software development and ensure conformance to performance optimization and interoperability standards and requirements. Work in adherence to secure development lifecycle practices and policies.Performs or assists in the research and fact-finding to develop or modify application programs. Includes working with vendors to review quality, adaptability, and compatibility of their products.Stay current with industry standards techniques for software development, and apply them to development, testing, integration, and reporting processes where appropriate.Consults with application users in developing functional/technical specifications.Consults with application users, evaluates user requests for new or modified computer applications and associated interfaces to determine feasibility, cost and time required, compatibility with current systems and computer capabilities.Performs any additional responsibilities as requested or assigned.Requirements

Requirements of the Software Eng 2 position include:Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Systems or a related field; or the equivalent combination education and experience.A minimum of three years of experience in business software application design, development, and implementation.Experience in the industry or in an environment whose scope, size, and complexity are comparable.Knowledge of Object Oriented Design and methodologies.Project management skills and the ability to develop and monitor work agreements and budgets, as well as the ability to determine specifications, schedules, and deliverables.Consultative and business analysis aptitude including communication and interpersonal skills that enables understanding of client's needs, define requirements, and provide effective solutions.Knowledge of current and emerging technologies, tools, applications, and vendors.Strong understanding of structured analysis and technical design concepts.Knowledge of common industry architectural patterns and software design patterns.Able to work in a zero-code-ownership environment where the team members can modify any source file at any time.Knowledge of deployment topologies (i.e., ensuring secure, highly available systems).In addition to the above, the requirements for the Software Eng 3 include:A minimum of four years of experience in business application design, development, and implementation.Advanced knowledge of Object Oriented Design and methodologies. Advanced knowledge of common industry architectural and software design patterns.Advanced knowledge of deployment topologies (i.e., ensuring secure, highly available systems).In addition, the requirements for the Sr Software Eng include all of the above:(Typically six years of related, progressive work experience would be needed for candidates applying for this position who do not possess a bachelor's degree.)A minimum of six years of experience in business software application design, development, integration, and/or installation.Demonstrated advanced knowledge of programming in client/server or web development environment. Experience in the industry, or in an environment whose scope, size, and complexity are comparable.Demonstrated advanced knowledge of relational database technology. Demonstrated project management skills and ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks and projects concurrently.Demonstrated advanced knowledge of information technology terms, equipment, systems, functions and major vendors. Experience integrating large disconnected enterprise-class systems in a robust, fault-tolerant manner consistent with industry standards.Effective oral and written communication skills. Effective analytical and problem-solving skills. Availability for periodic on-call responsibilities.Experience integrating Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) solutions within an environment with strong change and release management processes and procedures.Technical knowledge with hands-on experience in Oracle and Microsoft SQL database development. Technical knowledge with hands-on experience in current computing programming languages.Preferences

An understanding of change and release management processes and procedures.Technical knowledge with hands-on experience in Java, C# .NET, PL/SQL and other common enterprise computing programming languages.Familiarity or experience with Test-Driven Design (TDD).Experience integrating Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) solutions within an environment with strong change and release management processes and procedures.Understanding of company's existing IT environment and of applicable company policies, practices, and procedures.Experience with other development process methodologies such as Agile, Lean, Scrum or others.Experience integrating large disconnected enterprise-class systems in a robust, fault-tolerant manner consistent with industry standards.Additional InformationReq Id: 112367Company Code: PacifiCorpPrimary Location: PORTLANDDepartment: PacifiCorp CorporateSchedule: ?FTPersonnel Subarea: ExemptHiring Range: $87,600-136,300. Click apply for full job details.

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