Title: Senior Software Systems Engineer
Location: Richmond, VA
Pay Rate: $64/hr.
Top Required Skills:
- Experience in adapting and applying rapidly-changing technology to business needs
- Demonstrated competency in verbal communications, written communications, and interpersonal understanding.
- Demonstrated ability to seek out and understand customers’ issues and business needs.
- Demonstrated ability to handle deadlines and pressure
- Conceptual thinking and reasoning abilities.
- Demonstrated competency in logical and analytical thinking
- Demonstrated decision making ability
- Demonstrated competency in identifying and solving problems
- Demonstrated ability in utilizing multiple tools to solve problems
- Demonstrated ability to perform as technical expert in field.
What soft skill requirements do you have (team fit and personality requirements)?
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to work with IT and customer teams.
- Must be able and willing to collaborate in a team/cooperative environment as well as exercise independent judgment and initiative.
- Self-directed and highly motivated.
- Strong work ethic and demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team environment.
- Ability to multitask and handle changes in priorities
- Demonstrated ability to maintain a high level of professionalism in a fast-paced environment
- Extremely detail oriented and strong customer service focus.
- Ability to adapt in a dynamic work environment and make independent decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize work load and meet multiple project deadlines.
- Proven ability to quickly learn new applications, processes, and procedures
High Level Project Overview:
This contractor position is intended to serve as the primary resource for application support, maintenance, operational stability, incident resolution, and minor enhancements across the Electric Transmission application portfolio. Success in this role will allow internal resources to focus on application modernization, cloud migration, automation, architecture improvements, cybersecurity initiatives, and strategic technology transformation efforts.
Primary Responsibilities
- Working independently helps lead to the development of applications ensuring that the code follows latest coding practices and industry standards.
- Work closely and help lead other software engineers and team members to understand the system end-to-end and perform system analysis.
- Helps define Product along with analyzing, designing, configuring and developing the business logic and backend systems.
- Independently completes the work needed to implement features from the product backlog. Work closely with Product/Business Owner to understand stories and requirements from both Business and Technical perspective.
- Size/estimate user stories/requirements for their work and mentor less senior team members as they estimate their work.
- Perform unit testing and execute all testing related activities including the automation of test cases where applicable.
- Work closely with other team members to ensure features meet business needs.
- Work collaboratively with infrastructure, security and other partners.
- Collaborate with Portfolio Architects to ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards.
- Communicate with Product/Business Owner, Engineering Lead, UI/UX Designer or Scrum Master/Project Manager to ensure stories/tasks are delivered on schedule.
- Perform ongoing product maintenance and resolve issues (e.g. break/fix) as support requests arise.
- Mentor less experienced team members.
- Participate in design and code reviews to ensure standards are being met.
- Challenge ideas and opinions to avoid pitfalls and inefficient solutions.
- Create necessary project and product artifacts including support documentation.
- Review and validate product/project artifacts of other team members.
- Support product/business owner in defining future stories/requirements in defining technical designs.
Required Years of Experience:
- 5+ years of relevant professional experience in a directly related field-In-depth experience in programming or systems analysis desired
Education:
- Preferred: B.S. Degree in Computer Sciences or Computer Engineering
- Minimum of High School Diploma or Equivalency Required
- Are there any specific companies/industries you’d like to see in the candidate’s experience?
- Would be nice to have candidates with Utilities experience
Preferred Interview Process Overview (High level):
- Initial Phone Screen
- Onsite Interview