IT Lead Software Engineer (Hybrid)

Eversource Energy•Berlin, CT

5d•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 Lead Software Engineer 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. This role creates or ensures architectural designs and BC/DR plans exist for systems, leads software performance management, and successfully plans and executes projects involving multiple developers and complex requirements, prioritizing strategically. The Lead Software Engineer contributes to major architectural decisions, reads all project-related tech specs, tracks status, and considers implications to other systems. They 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.
Technical decision making.
Leading work that affects one or more complex systems and mission-critical areas.
Go-to expert in an area, with an increasingly strategic mindset.
Ability to communicate with executive leadership regarding matters of significant importance to the organization.
Must be able to work up to five days in the office if needed (for example: emergencies, training, or other business needs) or should the policy change.

Nice To Haves

Advanced Degree in a related field preferred.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the legacy and smart Metering and Energy Efficient platforms.
Architect phenomenal systems.
Create and encourage great software development practices engineering-wide.
Drive strategic technical improvements.
Mentor other engineers.
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).
Plan and execute projects involving multiple developers and complex requirements, prioritizing strategically.
Contribute to major architectural decisions.
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.
Significantly improve on existing processes and practices.
Communicate with executives in the business.
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.
Communicate with parties within and outside of own function, and typically has responsibilities for communicating with parties external to the organization.
Influence others to accept job function’s view / practices and agree / accept new concepts, practices, and approaches.
Communicate with executive leadership regarding matters of significant importance to the organization.
Conduct briefings with senior leaders within the job function.
Deliver code that sets the standard for quality and maintainability.
Write highly insightful, comprehensive code reviews.
Have a broad understanding of Eversource and project architectures and how their domain fits within it.
Systematically think through potential design impacts on other teams and the company.
Explore, research and recommend technologies with sizable potential impact for ES.
Identify and advocate for foundational work and practice improvements in their domain.
Convince others about technical tradeoffs and decisions.
Motivate and empower teammates to achieve higher level of performance.
Educate others about the work of the team.
Coach and help teammates prioritize.
Help others maintain resilience in periods of change.
Avoid monolithic deliverables and break down complex tasks quickly.
Execute pragmatically, consistently delivering high-quality, non-disruptive releases.
Identify, define, and solve strategic problems, thinking holistically about the whole system.
Tackle technical debt proactively and document corporate standards.
Author insightful documentation and architecture diagrams.
Build consensus for decisions.
Help define roadmaps and set vision for long-term projects.
Be available to work emergency restoration assignment as required.
Be available to travel between MA/CT/NH as necessary.