Job Description Summary
You are a technical client-focused Solution specialist who seeks to understand emerging energy industry trends and implications on utilities.
As "Solution Architect GridOS - ADMS" will be part of the Solution Design team, dedicated to ensuring best in class and optimal technical design to meet customer functional and non-functional requirements, project budget and timescale. You will drive, validate and audit the design of the solution during the different phases of the execution of a project (Scope Review, Statement of Work, Solution review, Factory Acceptance Tests, Site Acceptance Tests,…)
Job Description
Essential Responsibilities – Day-to-day
As "Solution Architect GridOS - ADMS"" you will:
* Engage with utility clients to understand their business needs and the impact of emerging trends as distributed energy resources (DERs) on their distribution system.
* Collaborate with the Services function (Delivery Manager and Project Manager), to interact with customers defining, producing and maintaining an optimal Solution Design based on customer needs and products capabilities.
* Own the design deliverables (Statement of Work, Solution Architecture documents), ensure traceability of requirements with solutions proposed.
* Be responsible for the communication and enforcement of the Solution Design to Customer and Key Project Stakeholders.
* Manage involvement of other SMEs (e.g. business analysts, IT / Cybersecurity experts) and make sure their design contributions meet system architecture functional and non-functional requirements.
* Drive excellence in execution through continuous improvement in their segment or domain (best practices and reference material - reference architectures, reference solutions)
* Collaborate with Product Managers & Engineering (Customer Voice, Return on Experience, product enhancements, reference architectures)
* Build technical expertise in the field of their segment or domain. Deliver technical consultancy services on demand
* Coordinate knowledge capitalization and dissemination across the Services & Solution Design teams,
* Be accountable for activities planning, progress reporting, and completing activities in his scope as per approved budget.
Qualifications/Requirements – Must Have
* Bachelor's degree in engineering or a similar program, with a focus on Computer Science and Electrical Engineering /Power systems.
* Electricity Industry knowledge, with proven relevant work experience as a Business Analyst or Solution Architect.
* You understand how to trace a requirement to a design specification and the test plans / cases
* You bring software development experience and integrating custom solutions with a product, in our case the GE Vernova GridOS ADMS product
* Experience with Linux, Source code Management, Virtualization, Cloud Architecture (AWS and/or Azure), Micro-services architectures,
* Experience of cloud and cloud native technologies such as containers and Kubernetes,
* Exposure to iterative product development and program management techniques including Agile, Safe, Scrum, DevOps…
* Strong problem-solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments
* Professional English level.
Qualifications/Requirements – Nice to Have
* Knowledge of emerging energy industry trends and implications on utility customers (Renewables and DER orchestration, distribution planning, IT/OT, SCADA)
* Experience in Services – Software Commissioning
* Experience of utility network management systems, ideally in the electricity industry
* Experience of SCADA
* Exposure to Outage Management and Customer Call Centre applications
* Familiarity with CIM / CGMES standards, IEC 61970/61968, or other energy modeling frameworks.
* Familiarity with power systems analysis e.g. load flow, short circuit analysis
* Experience of system integration e.g. SOAP, REST, Kafka etc.
* Experience of scripting and/or programming languages e.g. shell, perl, python, java etc.
* Familiarity with database technologies including RDBMS, SQL, NOSQL and data modelling, data migration
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: No