Manager, Applications Development

Manager, Applications Development 

Location: Birmingham, Alabama-The Energy Center

Schedule: Monday-Friday: *In-office required 4 days/week

 

SUMMARY

 

This position is responsible for owning and facilitating strategic delivery and support of technology solutions supporting the Operations and Commercial functions for Southern Power. The span of control includes centralized operations for Southern Power’s entire fleet of Natural Gas, Wind, Solar, and alternative clean technologies for power generation, as well as integrated Optimization and Transmission functions for maximizing the commercial value of the fleet’s generation. The position is responsible for extending foundational technology and delivering innovative technology to position Southern Power as a renewable energy market leader and drive synergies with the mature Gas & Renewables fleet. 

 

This position is the primary technology partner with Southern Power’s - Monitoring & Diagnostics (M&D) Center: Remote Operations Center (ROC): Renewable Operations: Commercial Optimization, Trading, and Transmission (COT&T); Generation Support leadership to continuously evolve and execute on their technology roadmap.

  

After influencing the approval of business cases, this position is responsible for the delivery and execution of identified projects. This position effectively delegates to team members and partners to identify internal and external data integration sources, deliver automated solutions which improve efficiency, transparency and accuracy of commercial and operational reports and analytics. The leader is accountable for follow through with business users and leaders on benefit realization through accelerated adoption of deployed technology.

 

This position is a member of the Southern Power Technology Solutions leadership team. The leader reports directly to the Director, Southern Power & PowerSecure Technology Solutions and is responsible for a team of 8 and a $3M budget with a project portfolio of $5-20M.

 

This position is a responsible for the successful management of production support and maintenance of existing business solutions, as well as the implementation and execution of new solution development.

 

 

MAJOR JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

 

• Partners with business leadership and other functional areas of the organization to ensure resources and strategies are aligned to current and future needs of the business.

 

• Drives innovation and leverages technology to create value and transform the business.

 

• Establishes and maintains excellent working relationships and partnerships with Operations and Commercial leadership, key business owners and influential power users as well as with external vendors and suppliers.

 

• Delivers technology solutions that are common where possible and custom where it counts.

 

• Drives and manages continuous improvement of technology delivery, maintenance, production support and reliability.

 

• Accountable for leveraging of shared systems and resources for scheduling, settlement and risk management.

 

• Accountable for ensuring communications of changes & planned outages with shared FOT & F&CS systems.

 

• Provides cost-effective management, rationalization and simplification of technology portfolio & projects.

 

• Provides thought leadership and consulting to business functions as well as technology partners.

 

• Creates a technology budget and manages financial performance holding technology partners accountable.

 

• Holds project management, business sponsors and core team members accountable for commitment to scope, resources, timelines, user adoption and benefit realization.

 

• Elicits key business requirements from business leaders, business owners to recommend, influence and accelerate technology solutions which automate processes, provide scalable reporting and analytics requiring the least amount of effort to implement and support yet achieve the desired business outcome and benefit.

 

• Establishes and enforces appropriate technology and business policies, practices and processes.

 

• Acts as a student of the business and technology, anticipating future needs and directional shifts in both the technology and energy industries.

 

 

JOB REQUIREMENTS

 

 

Education

 

• Degree in Computer Science or related field is required. An advanced