Sr. Systems Engineer 2 - DSeries Scheduling Platform

Exelon • Washington, DC

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The IT Sr. Systems Engineer II – Lead Systems Administrator administers, supports, secures, optimizes, and strategically advances Exelon’s enterprise Dseries scheduling platform environment. The role provides technical leadership for job scheduling, workload automation, batch processing, and critical business process orchestration across enterprise applications, cloud platforms, databases, and infrastructure services. The selected candidate may be based at an Exelon Corporate Office in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, Oakbrook Terrace, or Washington, DC. The position may require extended hours, including 24 x 7 coverage during storms or other energy delivery emergencies.

The engineer leads requirements discussions with business partners and vendors; works with leadership, architecture, project teams, and end users to assess system requirements and proposed changes; and creates specifications, architecture diagrams, and implementation plans. The role delivers solutions through hands-on configuration, troubleshooting, optimization, and supporting metrics. It also develops plans, resource requirements, migration strategies, and project schedules; presents to engineering, architecture review boards, and business partners; and coaches less experienced engineers.

The position designs, supports, and maintains scheduling integrations with other platforms, assesses emerging technologies, manages and communicates risks and issues, and supports compliance with preferred technologies, methodologies, standards, and policies. It leads peer code reviews and may lead and supervise interns and apprentices while contributing to a development-centric work environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Computer Networking, plus 4–7 years of experience in IT infrastructure design, application design, cloud computing, or disaster/recovery; alternatively, 6–9 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with system administration.
• Experience with the Dseries scheduling platform and business acumen within that platform.
• Ability to design and document processes and procedures; experience leading operational handoffs.
• Ability to solve complex problems and communicate sensitive, mission-critical information effectively in writing and verbally to varied audiences, including senior leaders.
• Ability to help team members make informed decisions aligned with sub-department strategic plans.
• Ability to understand business partner requests and develop strategies to address them.
• Ability to influence up, down, and across the organization.
• Ability to drive process improvements and innovative solutions by using alternative perspectives and emerging technologies across teams.
• Ability to deliver work aligned with project management principles and frameworks.
• Ability to provide financial impact analysis, including assessment of cost-optimization opportunities.
• Advanced capability in applying monitoring tools and independently making informed decisions about monitoring settings, including sample size, criticality, and self-healing opportunities.
• Ability to develop cloud technology white papers and conduct presentations as needed.
• Ability to apply solutions that meet current security requirements and account for future industry trends.
• Proficiency in PowerShell, Ansible, or another appropriate scripting tool, including the ability to independently create, modify, and troubleshoot scripts for automation, reporting, and monitoring.

Nice To Haves

• Understanding of programming languages and ability to solve increasingly difficult engineering problems.
• Initiative beyond implementation and experience building highly scalable applications.
• Ability to apply a broader perspective and contribute to research articles or reference reports that inform decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and lead discussions with business partners and vendors to gather information, and consult with leadership, architecture, project teams, and end users to identify scheduling system requirements.
• Perform feasibility analyses of potential changes related to existing and future security and technical architectures.
• Write and disseminate system specifications, logical and physical architecture diagrams, and implementation plans.
• Deliver practical, efficient, and cost-effective solutions, including hands-on configuration, troubleshooting, optimization, and supporting metrics.
• Develop future plans, resource requirements, migration strategies, and project schedules with others.
• Create and deliver presentations to Engineering, Architecture Review Boards, and business partners.
• Provide coaching and oversight for less experienced engineers.
• Design, support, and maintain scheduling system integrations with other platforms.
• Maintain knowledge of current and emerging IT systems technologies and recommend emerging technologies to solve business problems.
• Identify, document, and appropriately action risks and issues; provide supporting data to leadership and peers.
• Maintain knowledge of and ensure compliance with preferred technologies, methodologies, standards, and policies.
• Perform advanced debugging and problem-solving and lead peer code reviews.
• Design, implement, support, and document infrastructure systems, and lead technological innovation to address complex business problems and opportunities.
• Lead and supervise interns and apprentices and serve as a peer coach for system engineers.
• Administer and support enterprise scheduling and workload automation platforms, particularly Dseries.
• Configure, maintain, and optimize scheduling agents, controllers, calendars, workflows, and automation components.
• Monitor scheduling environments for high availability, reliability, and performance.
• Assist with and test system upgrades, patching, maintenance, and platform lifecycle management.
• Assist with troubleshooting scheduling failures, performance issues, and workflow bottlenecks.

Benefits

• Annual bonus of 15% for eligible positions.
• 401(k) match and annual company contribution.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Paid time off options, including vacation, sick time, floating and fixed holidays, maternity leave, and bonding/primary caregiver or parental leave.
• Employee Assistance Program and mental and emotional support resources.
• Wellbeing programs, including tuition reimbursement, adoption and surrogacy assistance, and fitness reimbursement.
• Referral bonus program.

What This Job Offers

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