Senior Engineer - SOC Operations Engineering - Software Developer

 

Dominion Energy is committed to providing reliable, affordable, and increasingly clean energy that powers our customers every day. If you want to work for a purpose-driven company that values safety and collaboration, we’re looking for you. You won’t just find a job here; you’ll find your career. Review the position below and apply today.

 

We offer a hybrid 3-2 work schedule (three days in the office, two days of teleworking) to accommodate the need for flexibility.

Military service members and veterans with ranks from E5-E9, W1-CW5, or O3-O6, plus appropriate equivalent combination of education and years of experience as outlined below will be considered for this opportunity. 


At this time, Dominion Energy cannot transfer or sponsor a work visa or employment authorization for this position.
 

 

Job Summary

Dominion Energy is seeking Senior Engineer with a strong software development background to be a part of the Electric Transmission team. The candidate will be part of a team that supports our system operators and engineers in the Electric Transmission System Operations Center (SOC). You will be part of a team with a variety of specializations and skill sets.

 

We’re looking for a candidate with a software development background to support the various needs within the team. This can include writing short scripts to automate work, developing interfaces to move data between systems, developing new applications for specific needs, troubleshooting existing applications, and acting as a subject matter expert in areas of technology and software.

 

The System Operations Engineering team has many responsibilities. To name a few:

• We maintain the Energy Management System model of our electrical transmission network and the external modeling our or neighboring utilities.
• We build and maintain displays and applications used by system operators.
• We are partnering to building a state-of-the-art synchrophasor based EMS, a very exciting project and first of its kind in the industry that you can be an integral part of.
• We ensure the reliability and accuracy of our State Estimation and Contingency Analysis tools.
• We perform extensive testing and quality assurance on our systems and applications.
• We work to evaluate and implement new technology, comply with new regulations, and act as consultants in our respective areas of expertise both within the SOC and the company as a whole.

Job Responsibilities

•    Developing and/or supporting the development of client-side applications used by members of the modeling team to automate and enhance processes or improve situational awareness in the operations control room.
•    Support debugging, testing, and validating developed applications.
•    Coordinate with and provide technical assistance to various engineering, operations and field teams and PJM to fully maintain the EMS’s reliability.
•    Writing scripts or tools to automate various tasks and processes. 
•    Maintaining high quality documentation
•    Applying software ‘best practices’ and maintaining a high quality of work
•    Assisting with quality assurance testing of major EMS IT projects.
•    Conducting research, development, and demonstration of leading-edge tools, technologies, and applications to maintain Dominion's leadership position in the industry.
•    Participating/collaborating with trade and industry organizations, benchmarking activities, universities, ISOs/RTOs, and national research labs.
•    Participating in various company teams, industry-level organizations, university partnerships, ISOs/RTOs, and national research labs to enhance Electric Transmission’s system operations performance. 
•    Performing other duties, as requested or assigned.
 

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Experience

 

• 5-6+ years of relevant engineering experience
• Knowledge of and development experience with programming languages, tools, and frameworks for automation and analysis, such as Python, Perl, C#, SQL, Bash etc. 
• Familiarity with the Git version control system.
• Proficiency in working with both relational and hierarchical databases.
• Basic proficiency with technology and file formats such as: Adobe Illustrator, vector graphics, SVG files, CIM.
• Experience working with large data sets within an organization
• Candidate should have a general power systems understanding
• Strong and up-to-date software development and technology skills and knowledge
• Ability to work independently and set goals to achieve results
• Strong oral and written communication skills (includes technical writing).