Software Engineer 3 (Portland, OR / Salt Lake City, UT) #113761

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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 inclusion & belonging.
 
 

General Purpose

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

• Design, code, test, and implement complex programs; develop appropriate program and system documentation according to established IT standards.
• 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.
• Aid in systems development planning and monitoring.
• Participate in design reviews and peer code walkthroughs.
• Provide client and application 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Systems or a related field; or the equivalent combination education and experience.
• A minimum of four years of experience in business application design, development, and implementation.
• Experience in the industry or in an environment whose scope, size, and complexity are comparable.
• Advanced Knowledge of Object Oriented Design and methodologies.
• Project management skills and the ability to develop and monitor work agreements and budgets, as well as the ability to determine specifications, schedules, and deliverables.
• Consultative and business analysis aptitude including communication and interpersonal skills that enables
• understanding of clients needs, define requirements and provide effective solutions.
• Knowledge of current and emerging technologies, tools, applications, and vendors.
• Strong understanding of structured analysis and technical design concepts.
• Advanced knowledge of common industry architectural and software design patterns.
• Able to work in a zero-code-ownership environment where the team members can modify any source file at any time.
• Advanced knowledge of deployment topologies (ie. ensuring secure, highly available systems).

Preferences

• Experience integrating Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) solutions within an environment with strong change and release management processes and procedures.
• Technical knowledge with hands-on experience in Java, C# .NET, PL/SQL and other new and current computing programming languages.  
• Understanding of company’s existing IT environment and of applicable company policies, practices, and procedures.
  Experience with Test Driven Design (TDD).
• Experience with other development process methodologies such as Agile, Lean, Scrum or others.
• Experience integrating large disconnected enterprise-class systems in a robust, fault-tolerant manner consistent with industry standards.

Additional Information

Req Id: 113761 
Company Code: PACIFICORP
Primary Location: PORTLAND     
Department: PacifiCorp Corporate 
Schedule: FT 
Personnel Subarea: Exempt
Hiring Range: $103,800-$122,000  
This position is eligible for an annual discretionary performance incentive bonus of up to 15.00% of salary.   

Benefits: Health care, retirement, paid time off, tuition assistance, paid short-term and long-term disability, paid bereavement leave. For more information, please visit: https://careers.pacificorp.com/content/New-Benefits-Page/?locale=en_US 

Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without an accommodation.
PacifiCorp is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or religious creed, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status (except as required by