DERMS Requirements Solution Specialist

GE Vernova DERMS Requirements Solution Specialist in Remote, Ontario

Job Description Summary

Who are you?

You are a technical client-focused Solution Specialist who seeks to understand emerging energy industry trends and implications on utilities and their clients through effective requirements management.

What will you as our new DERMS Solution Specialist work on?

1. Engage with our utility clients to understand their business needs and the impacts of distributed energy resources (DERs) on their distribution system.
2. Work collaboratively with a strong DERMS Solution Specialists team providing input on solution architecture based on client needs and solution capabilities.
3. Elicit, capture, and complete analysis on business needs to ensure that the requirements can be effectively mapped to test cases, use cases, and DERMS modules.
4. Ensure requirements traceability and status throughout the full project lifecycle.
5. Define success criteria and track during engagement lifecycle to ensure defined criteria is met.
6. Work collaboratively to deploy GE GridOS DERMS solutions to client environments to support project use cases and DER planning scenarios.
7. Prepare, modify, and configure client and testing input data for solutions by creating scripts and automating data processing systems.
8. Lead the custom adapter, connector, API, or microservice requirements definition and contribute to the Design and Test Phases.
9. Collaborate with our Service Engineering development lead during the development cycle to ensure all custom deliverables meet defined needs and standards and are on time and budget.
10. Respond to client inquiries, bugs, and product ideas for in-flight projects.
11. Perform test cycle testing (FAT, SAT), including use case and DERMS Modules.
12. Analyze and assess data and results of project activities and tasks.
13. Participate in deploying solution to the AWS cloud (GE’s and/or the clients).
14. Report on project outcomes and present findings to project team and stakeholders.
15. Document requirements capturing acceptance criteria and necessary features to meet client business needs mapping them back to product capabilities.
16. Define the user acceptance testing process and test cases, and articulate progress metrics.
17. Experience with enterprise software full stack development, including backend development and scripting including Java, Python, and DB connector experience.
18. Use internal software demonstrations to develop user acceptance documentation and training modules.
19. Train utility clients and end users on how to use GE GridOS DERMS to achieve their business cases.

Required Skills:

Education: You hold a bachelor’s degree in engineering or a similar program, with a focus on power systems, Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems (DERMS) or relevant experience.

Experience:

1. You have 3+ years of electricity industry knowledge, and one or more internships.
2. You will bring 3+ years of analysis skills including requirements elicitation and management skills in the utility sector.
3. Experience in tracing a requirement to a design specification and the test plans/cases.
4. Software development experience and a strong understanding of the SDLC and integrating custom solutions into a product, in our case the GE GridOS DERMS product.
5. Hands-on Python enterprise application development is a bonus.
6. Familiar with emerging energy industry trends and implications on utility clients in DER management, distribution planning, IT, SCADA, and asset management with a strong background in analysis.
7. You can quickly understand and analyze various approaches and processes and are able to configure solutions to client needs given existing product functionality.
8. You can drill down to the details, obtaining the right level of specificity for your team.
9. Experience creatively solving complex problems.
10. Strong written and verbal communication style.
11. Can effectively share complex technical topics with various levels of audience.
12. You enjoy being in front of clients, listening to their needs. You are deeply focused on ensuring their success. You can create powerful user stories detailing the needs of your clients.
13. A genuine interest in new tools and technology. You learn new software products quickly without extensive documentation or hand-holding.

Nice to have:

1. DevOps hands-on experience.
2. Cybersecurity hands-on experience.
3. Utility integration experience (E.g. SCADA, ADMS, OT, OMS etc.)

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

#LI-Remote - This is a remote position

GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.