Job Description Summary

Who are you?
You are a technical client-focused Solution Specialist who seeks to understands emerging energy industry trends and implications on utilities and their clients through effective requirements management.

Job Description

What will you as our new DERMS Solution Specialist work on?

• Engage with our utility clients to understand their business needs and the impacts of distributed energy resources (DERs) on their distribution system.
• Work collaboratively with a strong DERMS Solution Specialists team providing input on solution architecture based on client needs and solution capabilities.
• Elicit, capture, and complete analysis on business needs to ensure that the requirements can be effectively mapped to test cases, use cases, and DERMS modules.
• Ensure requirements traceability and status throughout the full project lifecycle.
• Define success criteria and track during engagement lifecycle to ensure define criteria is met.
• Work collaboratively to deploy GE GridOS DERMS solutions to client environments to support project use cases and DER planning scenarios.

• Prepare, modify, and configure client and testing input data for solutions by creating scripts and automating data processing systems.
• Lead the custom adapter, connector, API, or microservice requirements definition and contribute to the Design and Test Phases.
• Collaborate with our Service Engineering development lead during the development cycle to ensure all custom deliverables meet defined needs and standards and are on time and budget.
• Respond to client inquiries, bugs, and product ideas for in-flight projects.
• Perform test cycle testing (FAT, SAT), including use case and DERMS Modules.
• Analyse and assess data and results of project activities and tasks.
• Participate in deploying solution to the AWS cloud (GE's and / or the clients).
• Report on project outcomes and present findings to project team and stakeholders.

• Education.
  • You hold a bachelor's degree in engineering or a similar program, with a focus on power systems, Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems (DERMS) or relevant experience.

• Experience.
  • You have 3+ years of electricity industry knowledge, and one or more internships.
  • You will bring 3+ years of analysis skills including requirements elicitation and management skills in the utility sector.
  • Experience in tracing a requirement to a design specification and the test plans / cases.
  • Software development experience and a strong understanding of the SDLC and integrating custom solutions into a product, in our case the GE GridOS DERMS product.
  • Hands on Python enterprise application development is a bonus.
  • Familiar with emerging energy industry trends and implications on utility clients in DER management, distribution planning, IT, SCADA and asset management with a strong background in analysis.
  • You can quickly understand and analyze various approaches and processes and are able to configure solutions to client needs given existing product functionality.
  • You can drill down to the details, obtaining the right level of specificity for your team.
  • Experience creatively solving complex problems.
  • Strong written and verbal communication style.
    • Can effectively share complex technical topics with various levels of audience.
  • You enjoy being in front of clients, listening to their needs. You are deeply focused on ensuring their success. You can create powerful user stories detailing the needs of your clients.
  • A genuine interest in new tools and technology. You learn new software products quickly without extensive documentation or hand holding.

• Master's degree.
• AWS / Azure Cloud Certification.
• DevOps hands on experience.
• Cybersecurity hands on experience.
• Utility integration experience (E.g. SCADA, ADMS, OT, OMS etc.)