Outage Management System (OMS) Senior Advisor

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Become an Outage Management System (OMS) Senior Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you'll provide in-depth technical subject-matter expertise for critical outage management project work defining the future of Grid Management. Strong technical leadership and guidance will ensure our team's success. You will also leverage your skills and experience to solve technical challenges with our next generation outage and grid solutions. As part of the IT team that brings these core capabilities to our T&D organization, you make a true difference in the planning, delivery, and operational support of our key outage management technologies.

• Oversees Grid Application related activities such as operation and maintenance of systems and sub-systems and interfaces with internal and external systems, system enhancements, updating databases and displays, and other activities required to ensure high availability.
• Optimizes algorithms, prediction models and an interface with grid equipment
• Troubleshoots and resolves complex systems issues either independently or collaboratively with the team, and with vendor engagement, as needed.
• Collaborates directly with IT team maintaining, improving, and implementing communications, hardware, and software infrastructure
• Interprets and implements various supervisory control and data acquisition protocol communications on remote devices and control centers
• Configures and modifies Grid Application databases and ensures that all telemetry and controls are available and accurate
• Performs complex technical analysis to define customer requirements, identify risks, design new solutions, and improve existing solutions
• Maintains and supports reporting, analytical, and historian 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, designing, implementing, or supporting technology solutions for mission critical systems
• Experience with Transmission and Distribution networks, SCADA and control systems

• Five or more years of experience working with and/or supporting an electric utility Outage Management System.
• Two or more years of experience with Kubernetes and Jenkins.
• Analytical proficiency and experience troubleshooting complex problems related to real-time systems.
• Experience creating and executing shell scripts and/or Python.
• Experience with SQL queries and reporting tools and platforms.
• Experience performing data analysis, development of business reporting.
• Strong coordination and communication skills to support working with cross-functional teams and vendors to achieve success in project activities.

• 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.\u202f Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California.\u202f Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
• Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!

• 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.
• The primary work location for this position is Santa Ana, CA. However, the successful candidate may also be asked to work for an extended amount of time at Rosemead, CA.

• This position includes providing phone and occasional on-site technical support related to troubleshooting and resolving moderate to highly complex system issues. OMS is supported 24/7, 365 through after-hours on-call that this position will participate in through weekly rotation.

• Position will require up to 5% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.

• 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.

• This position has an option for a 9/80 Alternate Work Schedule or 40hrs/5 days a week.

• Relocation may apply to this position.