Developer Sr, Application

Southern Company • Birmingham, AL

1d • Onsite

About The Position

This posting is for an Application Developer located in Birmingham, Alabama. The
position will be filled in the Electric Technology Solutions Fleet Operations
and Trading Portfolio supporting Southern Company's Fleet Operations and Trading
business.

 This position is responsible for software application development, support, and
technical expertise in support of Fleet Operations and Trading (Trading Floor).
The primary responsibilities include designing, developing, testing,
implementing, integrating, and supporting application solutions. Microsoft .NET
is the primary development platform.  Fleet Operations and Trading support
critical real-time systems and financial contracts vital to Southern Company and
the successful candidate ensures systems are developed, maintained, and operated
to attain highly accurate and dependable business solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Engineering, or related degree (preferred)
• Experience designing, developing, testing, implementing, integrating, and supporting applications (Windows desktop apps, web apps, and web services) (required)
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with development
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with relational databases
• Microsoft .NET
• C#
• AI-assisted development
• ASP.NET Core Web Apps (Blazor, Razor Pages, or MVC)
• ASP.NET Core Web APIs (Controllers, Minimal APIs, or gRPC)
• Visual Studio, GitHub Copilot, Postman
• SQL Server, T-SQL, Entity Framework Core
• git, CI/CD
• General and practical knowledge of AI concepts, tools, and paradigms
• Ambition to be a continuous learner of technology and to become a student of the Southern Company business developing a deep knowledge of the Fleet Operations and Trading domains
• Ability to be resilient in ambiguous situations with minimum requirements; able to approach challenges from multiple perspectives and show an appropriate level of self-sufficiency; able to elicit requirements from business partners
• Participate in the entire life cycle of software development and delivery from ideation to deployment using the latest technologies and platforms employing modern best practices and techniques including UX specifications, design patterns, OOA/OOD, DDD, and enterprise architecture patterns
• Ability to utilize DevSecOps tools and best practices to build and deploy software, advocating a DevOps culture and shifting security left in development
• Ability to collaborate with a variety of teammates to build and support apps; strong communication skills especially the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders at an appropriate level of detail.

Nice To Haves

• WPF
• IIS
• Infragistics Controls
• SignalR
• PowerShell
• GitHub, GitHub Actions
• Fortify, Sonatype
• WCF
• OpenTelemetry
• Clover DX
• Docker, OpenShift, Podman
• Azure, AWS
• ML.NET, MCP, Agent Framework
• Databricks
• Python
• Pandas, NumPy, SciPy
• PyTorch, Scikit-learn

Responsibilities

• designing, developing, testing, implementing, integrating, and supporting application solutions

Benefits

• Southern Company invests in the well-being of its employees and their families through a comprehensive total rewards strategy that includes competitive base salary, annual incentive awards for eligible employees and health, welfare and retirement benefits designed to support physical, financial, and emotional/social well-being.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level