Application Engineer – MMS Data Management

Description

General information: As part of the Data Management team, you will be focused in retrieving, validating, processing and storing various data to guarantee the accessibility, reliability, and timeliness of the data to be used by downstream programs (for example, Network and Optimization). Responsibilities: Analyze and understand customer engineering, business and software requirements, propose effective and efficient data management solutions, estimate required effort, identify risks and formulate implementation approach and assumptions. Understand database design concepts, the benefits and limits of various types of databases and ability to recognize how to efficiently store and analyze various types of data. Design, develop, test, integrate and document data management applications and related work for customer projects, while following best engineering and software development practices. Support software releases and assist onsite/support team with expert knowledge, problem analysis, troubleshoot and resolution of defects as required to bringing issues to closure. Actively research and further own knowledge in data management skills and improve software development practices and documentation. Your background: Bachelor's degree or Master's in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering with special emphasis in Data Management skills. Demonstrated programming skills in high performance, high programming level languages such as C/FORTRAN. Familiarity with operating systems such as linux or similar. Proficient skills in English written and oral communication. Experience developing power system application software for Electric Utilities or Electricity Markets.