Grid Management System, Senior Advisor

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Become a Grid Management System (GMS), Senior Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you'll oversee the GMS Operations, provide strategic guidance, and improve overall reliability of SCE's Grid. This position will provide technical leadership for highly complex projects, lead architecture, design and implementation efforts, which include hands-on software development. Work with application vendors and manage all escalated design and implementation issues to proper closure.

This role involves mentoring senior technical team members, serving as a subject matter expert on GMS and related systems, and collaborating with vendors, senior leadership, and multidisciplinary teams. The candidate will provide technical leadership in the maintenance and support of mission-critical GMS, Distribution, and SCADA applications, including after-hours tier 3 support. Responsibilities include performing complex analysis, consulting on technical issues, leading system upgrades and deployments, and implementing action plans to prevent future issues.

• Oversees EMS related activities such as updating databases, displays, operation and maintenance of systems and sub-systems and interfaces with internal and external systems
• Optimizes algorithms, prediction models and an interface with microgrid equipment
• Troubleshoots and resolves complex systems issues to resolution independently, collaboratively with the team, and with vendor engagement
• Collaborates directly with IT maintaining, improving, and implementing communications, and hardware and software infrastructure
• Interprets and implements various supervisory control and data acquisition protocol communications on remote devices and control centers
• Configures and modifies EMS databases and ensures that all telemetry and controls are available and accurate
• Performs complex technical analysis to define customer requirements, identify risks and improve existing solutions
• Maintains and supports system interfacing historical data systems
• Understands and implements various ISO (Independent System Operator) telemetry requirements to support various energy management needs of the customers and maintains grid operator reliability and compliance
• Writes and reviews documentation to describe configuration processes, logic, and test plans. Writes and reviews manuals for users
• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

• Ten or more years of experience architecting or designing technology solutions for mission critical systems.
• Experience with Transmission and Distribution networks, SCADA and control systems.

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical major.
• Experience in infrastructure and networking capabilities, including LTE and Landis + Gyr radio solutions and industry network protocols.
• Experience with GE's eTerra and PowerOn Reliance applications.
• Experience with Distribution, Outage & Distributed Energy Resource Management.
• Extensive experience and proficiency in programming, i.e. JAVA, C++, Python, etc...
• Experience troubleshooting and resolving complex system technical issues.
• Strong leadership experience working with cross-functional teams, clients, and vendors.

• This position's work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
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• This position has an option for a 9/80 Alternate Work Schedule or 40hrs/5 days a week.
• Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

• This position has been identified as a NERC/CIP impacted position - Prior to being hired, the successful candidate must pass a Personnel Risk Assessment (PRA) or Background Investigation. Once hired, the candidate must complete specified training prior to gaining un-escorted access to assigned work location and performing necessary job duties.