IT Lead Software Engineer (Hybrid)

Eversource Energy•Westwood, MA

1d•$148,530 - $165,030•Hybrid

About The Position

This role will contribute to the legacy and smart Metering and Energy Efficient platforms in a multitude of ways, from architecting phenomenal systems, creating, and encouraging great software development practices engineering-wide, driving strategic technical improvements, and mentoring other engineers. The position is responsible for working with internal staff and 3rd party vendors to oversee the development, integration, maintenance, patching, and repairing of software and associated infrastructure for maximum efficiency and usability. The role involves creating or ensuring architectural designs and BC/DR plans exist for systems, leading software performance management, and successfully planning and executing projects involving multiple developers and complex requirements, prioritizing strategically. The Lead Software Engineer contributes to major architectural decisions, reviews all project-related tech specs, tracks status, and considers implications to other systems. They will spur and facilitate meaningful discussion around complex issues, work effectively with key stakeholders to solve problems and make decisions, and are trusted to always share status with all stakeholders and proactively remedy communication issues.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
Minimum of eight (8) to ten (10) years of related experience.
Expert or mastery level knowledge of work area, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
Deep knowledge of architecture and project management.
Advanced knowledge of related disciplines within work area and ability to identify links and potential impact on projects, programs or systems.
Focused on technical decision making, leading work that affects one or more complex systems and mission-critical areas.
Delivers code that sets the standard for quality and maintainability.
Writes highly insightful, comprehensive code reviews.
Has a broad understanding of Eversource and project architectures and how their domain fits within it.
Systematically thinks through potential design impacts on other teams and the company.
Go-to expert in an area, with an increasingly strategic mindset.
Explores, researches and recommends technologies with sizable potential impact for ES.
Identifies and advocates for foundational work and practice improvements in their domain.
Convinces others about technical tradeoffs and decisions.
Sought out as mentor and provider of technical guidance, positive coaching.
Motivates and empowers teammates to achieve higher level of performance.
Educates others about the work of the team.
Coaches and helps teammates prioritize.
Helps others maintain resilience in periods of change.
Avoids monolithic deliverables and breaks down complex tasks quickly.
Executes pragmatically, consistently delivering high-quality, non-disruptive releases.
Identifies, defines, and solves strategic problems, thinking holistically about the whole system.
Tackles technical debt proactively and documents corporate standards.
Authors insightful documentation and architecture diagrams.
Must be available to work emergency restoration assignment as required.
Must be available to travel between MA/CT/NH as necessary.

Nice To Haves

Advanced Degree in a related field preferred.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the legacy and smart Metering and Energy Efficient platforms by architecting systems, creating and encouraging great software development practices, driving strategic technical improvements, and mentoring other engineers.
Work with internal staff and 3rd party vendors to oversee the development, integration, maintenance, patching, and repairing of software and associated infrastructure.
Create or ensure architectural designs exist for systems.
Create or ensure BC and DR plans exist for systems.
Lead software performance management (measure and improve).
Successfully plan and execute projects involving multiple developers and complex requirements, prioritizing strategically.
Contribute to major architectural decisions and read all project related tech specs, tracking status and considering implications to other systems.
Spur and facilitate meaningful discussion around complex issues.
Work with key stakeholders effectively to solve problems and make decisions.
Share status with all stakeholders and proactively remedy communication issues.
Implement functional strategy.
Establish operational plans for work area.
Develop and implement new products, processes, standards, or operational plans that will have an impact on the achievement of functional results.
Improve existing processes and practices.
Own and develop elements of functional strategies and operational goals in area of expertise.
Focus on operational plans with short to medium-term impact on the organization (e.g., 1 – 2 years).
Direct activities that have significant impact to the achievement of results for the discipline.
Recommend and implement new products, processes, policies, standards, or operating plans in support of the functional strategy.
Conduct extensive investigation to understand root cause of problems.
Improve upon existing processes and systems using significant conceptualizing, reasoning, and interpretation.
Build consensus for decisions.
Help define roadmaps and set vision for long-term projects.