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 operating the grid reliably 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 California ISO is committed to the health, safety, and work/life integration of it employees and is proud to offer flexible work arrangements. This position would be eligible to participate in a hybrid or local remote schedule. 

Relocation Assistance is available.

Under the general direction of the Manager, provides integration data modeling design and implementation support for all enterprise level applications. Participates in the strategy, development, and implementation of information models representing enterprise energy market subject matter used in data repository, systems integration technologies, and Common Information Model (CIM).  Subject matter expert in modeling and also coordinates with other business units and technology projects to assess, design, and implement changes to UML data models and associated integration. Contributes to the development and software engineering roadmaps, including the implementation and support of IT systems that maintain the enterprise UML model(s) as well as IT systems that maintain instance data based in the enterprise models. In the planning phase projects, works with business SME’s, product owners and IT analysts to fine tune the CIM modeling requirements related to application to application and business to business data exchange .  Thereafter, works with internal and external applications development teams related to development of web services based on the enterprise data models.

What You Will Be Doing: 

• Participates in the development and maintenance of enterprise UML model(s) representing CAISO network and commercial concepts such as business semantics and metadata workflow management.
  • Manages CIM data model and product roadmaps, develops and updates schedules, positions features within the enterprise and prevents overlaps.
  • Measures project software architecture compliance using defined metrics.
• Works with Application integrators, software product owners, software engineers and business units SMEs to review modeling requirements, implement updates to enterprise UML models and integration profiles, and develops web services technical artifacts needed by internal and external development teams.
  • Translates Web Service Data requirements into a UML model and integration profiles, which respects enterprise standards and services and meets customer’s expectations.
• Provides senior level technical expertise on CAISO UML / CIM modeling and related industry standards, and serves as a point-of-contact to advise both external groups and ISO personnel on business related matters. 
  • May serve as a committee member to industry related consortiums.
  • Maintains extensive product knowledge and expertise. Stays current on IT trends and best practices, leverage 3rd-party research and attends technical training/conferences as appropriate.
  • Demonstrates leadership, subject matter expertise and mentors and guides other team members. 
• Diagnoses, isolates and resolves complex problems related to data models, applications and associated data repositories and web services.
• Performs unit and user acceptance testing for systems related to UML model and instance data maintenance.
• Creates and maintains documentation and procedures related to enterprise modeling.

Level of Education and Discipline:

A Bachelor's degree (BA, BS) or equivalent education, training or experience in Power Systems Engineering, Computer Science or engineering, Mathematics or related field. Master Degree preferred.

Amount of Experience:

Equivalent years of education and training, plus five (5) or more years related experience.

Type of Experience:

Modeling Software and ability to generate WSDL, XSDs, JSON schemas and OpenAPI specification files.   Requires a thorough understanding of ITIL processes and their role in the data center and the software solutions in support of them.  .

Experienced in all areas of software engineering including design, development, analysis and data modeling. 

Experience with Source Control Systems (Bit bucket/Git), automated tests and continuous integration & Deployment (CI & CD).

Knowledge of Java/J2EE Technologies, Open API, Kafka, SOA, and other Integrations tools and technologies.

Familiarity with waterfall, agile methodologies.

Additional Skills and Abilities:

Must be able to work effectively in a team environment as facilitator and team member.  Excellent analytical, verbal and written communication and documentation skills required, with a demonstrated attention to detail. Ability to use deductive reasoning and analytical thinking with sound judgment and decision-making skills.  Excellent interpersonal and conflict resolution skills are also essential.  Must be self-starting and willing and able to work independently in a dynamic corporate organization under pressure of tight deadlines and aggressive expectations.  Self-motivated, problem solving skills and the ability to influence others without direct authority. 

Demonstrates an ability to innovate, find and propose new solutions to complex Information data modeling, application and system architecture issues. 

Ability to effectively communicate complex technical materials and concepts in a non-technical manner. 

The pay range for the Sr Software Information Modeling Engineer position is $116,850 - $194,750 / annually.

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