Software Engineer (2, 3 or Senior) Portland, OR / Salt Lake City, UT - #112367

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PacifiCorp is seeking customer-centric candidates to grow and sustain our commitment to a culture of customer service excellence, environmental sustainability and diversity, equity and inclusion.

General Purpose

This position is on the Berkshire Hathaway Energy Transmission and Distribution (T&D) IT application team. The team comprises software engineers, systems analysts, and quality assurance professionals providing development, system integration, and support for critical utility industry enterprise applications. Our team supports several business units, which include electrical grid operations, grid technology, grid reliability, distribution operations, transmission operations, and system control. Technologies and systems include OMS, DMS, ADMS, FLISR, and DERMS, supporting the electrical distribution system, fault circuit indicators, and field distributed energy resources (rooftop solar, batteries, EV). The ultimate goal is to provide our nearly 5M customers with reliable, resilient, efficient energy safely and securely.
    
This role will involve managing existing in-house-developed transmission applications, interfaces, and vendor applications and contributing to a significant new initiative within the PacifiCorp Energy Supply organization. 
    
We seek a talented Software Engineer with Software Development Engineering Test (SDET) experience to join our team. As an SDET, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our software products.

 

Conduct analysis, create system specifications, develop, test and implement engineering, scientific and business applications, operating systems, and file/database servers. Evaluate software packages and provide recommendations to management and business clients. Identify future needs for key technologies and/or techniques and evaluates these technologies for adoption.

Responsibilities

The responsibilities of the Software Eng 2 position include:

• Design, code, test, and implement complex programs; develop appropriate programs and systems documentation according to established IT standards.
• Enhance existing systems; participate in client walkthroughs and technical design reviews.
• Aid in systems development planning and monitoring.
• Participate in design reviews and peer code walkthroughs.
• Provide client and software support.
• Participate in development and ensure conformance to performance optimization and interoperability standards and requirements. 
• Act as a subject matter resource and consult with clients and IT in support of the company’s IT strategy and overarching business requirements.  
• Collaborate with IT teams to identify technical deficits and improvement opportunities in current practices and procedures.
• Apply industry standard techniques as appropriate such as automated unit testing, test-driven development, continuous integration, and iterative development for example.

In addition to above, the responsibilities of the Software Eng 3 position include:

• May act as senior contributor or technical lead on small to mid-sized projects.
• Design, code, test, and implement complex programs; 
• May act as senior contributor or technical lead on small to mid-sized projects.
• Enhance existing systems; participate in client walkthroughs and technical design reviews.
• Act as a subject matter resource and consult with clients and IT in support of the company’s IT strategy and overarching business requirements.  
• Collaborate with IT teams to identify technical deficits and improvement opportunities in current practices and procedures.

In addition to above, the responsibilities of the Sr Software Eng position include:

• Architects, designs, codes, tests, documents, implements and maintains more complex application programs and interfaces. 
• Provides technical support; problem determination and investigation; implementation of upgrades for developed applications. 
• Perform software development and ensure conformance to performance optimization and interoperability standards and requirements. Work in adherence to secure development lifecycle practices and policies. 
• Performs or assists in the research and fact-finding to develop or modify application programs. Includes working with vendors to review quality, adaptability and compatibility of their products. 
• Stay current with industry standards techniques for software development, and apply them to development, testing, integration and reporting processes where appropriate. 
• Consults with application users in developing functional/technical specifications.
• Consults with application users, evaluates user requests for new or modified c