Job Description Summary

At GE Vernova, we are helping transform the electric power industry through advanced grid and market solutions. Our software teams partner with utilities, ISOs, and TSOs to deliver reliable, high-performance technologies that support efficient market operations and a more sustainable energy future.

As a Senior Electricity Market Optimization Software Engineer, you will contribute to and lead the design, development, testing, integration, and performance tuning of advanced power systems application software to meet project and product commitments. These projects primarily focus on developing power system capabilities for electric utilities, Independent System Operators (ISOs), and Transmission System Operators (TSOs).

In this role, you will work closely with a team of 8–15 professionals responsible for enhancing, evolving, and supporting a large, on-premise, highly available Electricity Market Management System (MMS). The team includes power systems, database, software, and optimization engineers.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

In this role, you will:

• Be responsible for defining, developing, and evolving software in a fast paced and agile development environment using the latest software development technologies and infrastructure
• Provide domain knowledge and/or technical leadership to a team of electricity markets application software engineers
• Lead and contribute to electricity market application development and ensure software delivery is on schedule, within budget and meets or exceeds customer expectations
• Promote and demonstrate best practices and high-quality in software development processes
• Write documents such as design notes, testing procedures, etc.
• Provide budgetary estimate for new project tasks to project leads and project managers
• Support tendering team, customer demos and customer training
• Work with customer throughout the project life cycle to ensure the software meets customer’s quality standards and functional requirements.
• Mentor junior team members
• Participate in testing of the integrated system.  Identify the need for changes whether they are defects or new enhancements
• Work in a self-directed fashion to proactively identify system problems, failures, and areas for improvement. 
• Track issue resolution and document solutions implemented and create troubleshooting guides. 
• Interact with Product Development Team, Customers, Solution Providers (Partner / Integrators), and other cross-functional teams as required.
• Apply principles of SDLC and methodologies like Lean/Agile/XP, CI, software and product security, scalability, documentation practices, refactoring and testing techniques

Basic Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering with thesis or related work in power systems OR in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
• Two to five years of experience in Electricity Markets, Security Constrained Unit Commitment and Economic Dispatch using Mixed Integer Programming (MIP), Energy Management Systems (EMS), or Power System Analysis applications.

Desired Characteristics:

Technical Expertise:

• PHD in Electrical Engineering with thesis or related work in power systems
• Three (3) years of experience in development or project delivery experience in Electricity Market field
• Continuous improvement oriented; actively generates process improvements, champions and drives change initiatives
• Highly organized and efficient; able to balance competing priorities and execute accordingly
• Strong understanding of Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP)
• Experience with testing and test automation.
• Strong knowledge of source control management and GitHub in particular.
• Excellent analytical and debugging skills.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new software development practices, languages, and tools.
• Team player, dedicated, detailed oriented and Customer focused.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills. 
• Self-starter; comfortable pulling together information from multiple resources. 

Business Acumen:

• Anticipates potential risks, obstacles and resolves proactively in order to ensure smooth project delivery.
• Maintains high levels of customer satisfaction across all projects by addressing customer concerns quickly and effectively; at times, anticipates customer concerns before they become issues.
• Leverages knowledge of market and customer segment in order to establish further credibility in the eyes of the customer.
• Plans and facilitates collaborative discussions with client and others w