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- 1 Year Contract-to-hire; 40 hrs/week
- W2 Employee Only- NO CORP to CORP
- Must reside in Texas and can work 100% remote
- Occasional onsite meetings could be requested (possibly once a month); travel to/from ERCOT location(s) not reimbursed as an expense under this contrac.
- Starting range $55+/hr, DOE
- Broadly applies principles, theories and concepts related to the profession. A seasoned, experienced professional with an in-depth/full understanding of area of specialization.
- May provide recommendations regarding issues outside the bounds of defined procedures and practices. Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
- Wide latitude for decisions within assignments, programs, and projects; impact is generally limited to the project or department.
- Acts as a resource to advise and may at times a lead the work of lower level professional and/or support employees. Generally, represents the department on projects and may perform in a project leadership role.
- Works under the direction of a senior developers or supervisor/manager to complete departmental goals and assignments.
- Performs all work according to applicable rules and regulations including regulatory requirements and organization policies and procedures.
- Good Knowledge on core electric power systems operations and control functions like power flow studies, state estimation, contingency analysis, economic dispatch, Unit Commitment, and electric power market operations.
- Works with internal stake holders closely, review and understand grid applications functional and non-functional requirements.
- Develops design, performs software development (using Fortran, C/C, Java, Perl, Python etc. programming languages) and testing for suite of grid applications and its interfaces in windows and Linux environments.
- Designs, develops, and tests grid applications backend oracle database changes using Oracle PL/SQL programming language.
- Performs grid applications user interfaces display development using GE EMS FGbuilder and Siemens WebSDK platform.
- Performs GE EMS applications software code migration to port all ERCOT customs from current EMS system to upgrade EMS system as part EMS Upgrade project.
- Participates in requirements and design review discussions with grid systems vendors (GE, Powertech, Siemens, EPG, Itron).
- Develops and manages source code using Atlassian Bitbucket source code control tool.
- Adheres to software development life cycle (SDLC) standards for all the software changes within portfolio.
- Understands and follows grid applications software release process and best practices to deliver software changes to customers seamlessly. Adheres to change management processes during software release delivery.
- Participates in interdepartmental meetings and present software design and implementation details.
- Good Knowledge on Linear and Non-Linear Optimization techniques and understand grid applications (SCOPF, SCUC etc.) optimization objective functions formulation.
- Analyzes electric power grid operations and congestion management related requirements and designs, develops software solutions in core EMS applications like Power Flows, State Estimator, Contingency Analysis, Load Frequency Control, Load Forecast, Dispatcher Training Simulator (DTS) and in ERCOT developed custom EMS applications to meet the requirements.
- Works closely with Network Modeling team on CIM Model data modeling, designs CIM Importer Schema and performs EMS CIM Importer software development.
- Analyzes, troubleshoots, identifies root cause of Voltage and Transient Stability Analysis (VSAT/TSAT) applications issues, and works with Powertech to develop and deliver software solutions to resolve the issues.
- Designs and implements IRR (Wind/Solar) forecast requirements in Siemens WebSDK based forecast presentation platform.
- Works closely with grid systems vendors, drives requirements and design discussions and ensures that quality software is delivered by vendors.
- Deploys, configures, integrates, and tests software releases from grid systems vendors in development environments and delivers quality software releases to customers. Vendor software includes GE EMS, Siemens Network Model Management System (NMMS), Powertech DSA/VSAT/TSAT, EPG PMU/RTDMS, iTron MetrixIDR.
- Provide timely software solutions to address grid applications critical production issues on 24x7 basis as level 2 support team.
- Works closely with GMS production support teams, Grid Operations & Training teams, Network Modeling team and provides technical support on EMS, DTS and NMMS applications.
- Automates software development processes using Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools such as Bitbucket, Apache Maven/Jenkins etc.
- Creates and gives presentations for training on GMS grid applications enhancements.
- Represents GMS Technology Development department at interdepartmental meetings.
- Assists in developing tools, processes and procedures that improves grid applications software development and departmental/organizational efficiencies.
- Experience with one of the vendors (Hitachi Energy/ABB, GE, Siemens, Resource Innovations/Nexant, OSI Inc) Energy or Market Management Systems and applications preferred.
- Power industry experience in grid and market arena preferably with software vendors or ISO/utilities.
- Experience with programming languages such as FORTRAN, C, C, Java, Perl and Python.
- Experience with Oracle PL/SQL
- Experience with Commercial Optimization Solvers: CPLEX/AMPL, Gurobi
- Experience with CIM/XML model-based tools.
- Experience with developing integration layers using Messaging Services: Tibco JMS, AMQ
- Programming Languages/Packages/Scripting: C, C, VisualC, FORTRAN, Java, Perl, Python, PL/SQL, Shell Scripting
- Optimization Solvers: CPLEX/AMPL, Gurobi
- Operating System: Windows, Linux, AIX
- Database: Oracle, SQLSERVER
- Source Code Control Tools: Git, GitHub
- Web Application Servers: JBOSS, Tomcat
- Message Queues: Tibco JMS, AMQ
- Web Based Development – J2EE, Servlets, SOAP, Java Script, HTML/CSS, XML
- Requires minimum 2 years related work experience in excess of degree requirements
- Bachelor's Degree : Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field (Required)
- Master's Degree : Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field (Preferred)
- or a combination of education and experience that provides equivalent knowledge to a major in such fields is required