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
- 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.
Important: This role involves work for customers who manage critical infrastructure, based on customer requirements it will be necessary to carry out background checks and suitability assessments (UK BPSS clearance OR UK Security Check (SC)) as part of the hiring process.
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
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