Senior IT Software Engineer

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Job Summary

Senior IT Software Engineers design, build, test, and support modern software solutions using Duke Energy's technology platforms and engineering practices. We are looking for a software engineer with a strong foundation in application development and who is dedicated to building exceptional software. Independently or limited supervision, develops and tests software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products. Develops software and tools in support of design, infrastructure and technology platforms. Senior Software Engineers are primarily responsible for designing highly complex solutions then building and overseeing the execution of those designs.

Role requirements:

• Design and build highly complex software solutions using agile/XP/TDD.
• Program well-designed, efficient code independently.
• Collaborate with designers, developers, and product owners to build cloud native software solutions targeting PCF, Azure, AWS, mobile iOS/Android, etc.
• Clearly communicate team wide progress and identify blocking processes/patterns that hold a team back.
• Participate in paired programming and code reviews with juniors to expand the team’s collective knowledge and understanding of software engineering.
• Complete independent research to refine best practices and present work to peers.
• Turn complex ideas into manageable pieces of work to complete as part of a product team.
• Coach and mentor software developers.
• Provide technical guidance to leadership so that solutions are built with innovation and sustainability in mind.
• Learn the business drivers of a product and help drive the technical direction of a product to fulfill the desired vision.

Senior Software Engineers will typically possess:

• A breadth of experience building software solutions (through a strong mix of independent research/projects and industry expertise).
• Significant familiarity and comfort in using IDEs. Knows short-cuts and frequents operations that speeds up development time.
• Deep and solid understanding of APIs. Have been involved in designing/building/implementing APIs.
• Significant understanding of cloud-native software engineering best practices.
• Familiarity with a several frameworks. Resulting code is concise and easy-to-follow.
• Experience with automation and optimization. Looks for ways to create repeatable patterns that increase the efficiency of the team.
• Experience and ability to manage and optimize databases.
• Understanding of functional programming and how to apply functional concepts in any language. Quick to picking up a new language or adopting a more recent version of a language.
• Familiarity and able to comfortably work with multiple platforms.
• Experience turning complex ideas into user stories. From that, can turn user stories into workable solutions, providing estimates to complete that work, and breaking down complex work into smaller components.
• Previous experience collaborating on a cross-functional team.
• Deep understanding of development cycle.
• Ability to debug and avoid future problems by building more robust solutions.
• Ability to look at previous personal or team experience and use this to analyze mistakes/successes, draw conclusions, and design future solutions. Resulting solutions have few bugs and quick remediation times.
• Experience building solutions with the larger team in mind. Solutions have the goal of improving software engineering at the team level.
• Experience with teaching and mentoring team members at various levels.
• A deep and solid understanding of cyber security principles such as authentication, authorization and encryption.
• Ability to leverage and recommend common security libraries applicable to their language stack and solid experience with secure programming best practices.
• Knowledgeable of common attack vectors, such as SQL injection, Denial of Service (DoS), Cross-Site Scripting, etc. and methods to limit exposure.
• Quick to identify and remediate potential security vulnerabilities.
• Experience working with one or more CI/CD stacks and associated best practices. Ability to setup CI/CD for new products with no guidance. Recommends and implements modifications to CI/CD processes when continuous improvement opportunities are identified.

Required/Basic Qualifications

• Associates degree in Information Technology or Other Related Degree
• 5 years related work experience
• In lieu of Associates degree(s) AND 5 year(s) related work experience listed above, High School/GED AND 7 year(s) related work experience

Desired Qualifications

• Previous Duke Energy experience
• Hands on experience supporting and troubleshooting Esri ArcGIS Enterprise with large complex, multi-machine and multi-environment deployments with high uptime requirements
• Strong working knowledge of ArcGIS Pro including enterprise geodatabases, map/service publishing, data connections, and troubleshooting
• Experience developing with python in a GIS context using ArcPy/ARCGIS/Pandas etc
• Experience with FME
• Experience developing, configuring, and supporting ArcGIS Experience Builder and ArcGIS Maps SDK for Javascript web GIS applications
• Experience developing and supporting large and complex web GIS applications

Working Conditions

• Virtual Mobility Classification – Work will be performed from a remote location after the onboarding period. However, virtual employees should live within a reasonable commute to a Duke Energy facility and must live within a footprint state of Duke Energy (NC, SC, FL, OH, KY, IN) or the DC metro area.

Specific Requirements

• Associate’s Degree + 5 yrs work experience
• Bachelor’s + 3 yrs work experience
• Master’s + 1 yr work experience

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