The California Independent System Operator (ISO) manages the flow of electricity across the high-voltage, long-distance power lines that make up 80 percent of California's power grid. We safeguard the economy and well-being of 30 million Californians by "keeping the lights on" 24/7.

As the impartial grid operator, the California ISO opens access to the wholesale power market that is designed to diversify resources and lower prices. It also grants equal access to 25,865 circuit-miles of power lines and reduces barriers to diverse resources competing to bring power to customers.

The California ISO's function is often compared to that of air traffic controllers. It would be grossly unfair for air traffic controllers to represent one airline and profit from allowing that company's planes to go through before others. In the same way, the California ISO operates independently—managing the electron traffic on a power grid we do not own—making sure electricity is safely delivered to utilities and consumers on time and reliably.

The Senior Applications Engineer is responsible for the development, maintenance and enhancements of California ISO applications. Assignments typically include applications analysis, design, development, integration, testing, and implementation activities in compliance with established department and corporate policies, procedures and methods.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Develops and maintains application systems to ensure timely access to accurate, real-time data.
• Maintains enterprise application programs for internal and external ISO workflow and control functions.
• Develops and implements unit tests and code review processes related to all supported applications.
• Creates and maintains documentation and procedures related to the maintenance and operation of application systems.
• Develops specifications and procures new applications that support ISO internal and external users.
• Coordinates with various departments to support changes or additions to applications in accordance with ISO Change Management policies and procedures.
• Interacts with vendor staff in the implementation of new systems and modifications to existing business applications.
• Analyzes, supports, and resolves real-time computer hardware, software and database issues in a time sensitive environment.

What's In It For You:

You will play a key role in providing your technical expertise to developing and enhancing applications used by the California ISO.

An opportunity to make a difference and impact millions of people who depend on electricity in their everyday lives.

Alternative work schedules are available (every other Friday off).

You will work in an extremely comfortable and collaborative work environment in our beautiful building at our LEED certified green campus.

The California ISO has a competitive Benefits Package:
 *Great Medical, Dental, Vision insurance
 *401K matching AND additional contribution

Join an innovative company that is leading the way to tomorrow's energy network!

Level of Education

• A Bachelor's degree (BA, BS) or equivalent education, training and experience.

Discipline

• Computer Science, Engineering or related field.

Amount of Experience

• Five or more years related experience.

Type of Experience

• Experienced in all areas of IT applications development including design, analysis and data modeling. 
• Expert level knowledge of Java/J2EE technologies. 
• Experience implementing SOA solutions using SOAP/REST. 
• Experience with Test Driven Development(TDD) techniques
• Experience with Source Control Systems (Perforce/Git), automated tests and continuous integration & Deployment (CI & CD)
• Design techniques such as Domain-Driven Design, Design by Contract, and Domain Specific Languages. Designing object-oriented components and coding algorithms.
• Familiarity with waterfall, Agile methodologies. 
• Development and production implementation experience with spring, Apache Camel, and/or Active MQ highly desired. 
• Experience with dynamic languages (Groovy, Ruby, Perl and JavaScript). 
• Basic business process management experience.

Experience in any of the following development technologies is desired: 

• Java frameworks (Hibernate, spring, Groovy/Grails)
• Web Application Servers (JBoss, Spring boot)
• Java Message Service (JMS)
• RBDMS (Oracle, PL/SQL)
• NoSQL (Casandra), cloud computing (AWS)
• SOA (ESB, Web Services) and Application/Web Services Security Design Patterns
• Testing Tools (SOAP UI)
• Testing Frameworks (JUnit, jMock, Selenium) 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.