Senior Software Engineer II

RWE Americas LLC
To start as soon as possible full time permanent

Functional area: IT / Digital
Remuneration: Exempt

Digital Solutions is responsible for the development and management of RWE Americas application and custom software development portfolio. These applications power our day-to-day business connecting operational data to enable business decisions and drive outcomes that improve the development performance and availability of over 160 renewable energy sites with over13GW of wind solar and battery assets.

The Senior Software Engineer II drives the engineering evolution of the Smart Data Pipeline (SDP) platform a cloudbased Azure-hosted system that automates data ingestion cleaning analysis forecasting alerting and measurement equipment lifecycle management for wind energy assets and potential solar/BESS assets in the future. This role combines hands-on software development architecture leadership and cross-functional technical ownership integrating data streams including met mast lidar and sensor systems. As a Senior Software Engineer II you will operate as a multidomain technical expert sets architectural direction mentors engineers and influences technical strategy across the Digital Solutions organization.

Role Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership & Architecture
  • Architect and own scalable cloud-native data pipeline solutions integrating data systems across the SDP platform
  • Define system architecture data flows and service boundaries across ingestion pre-analysis analysis alerting and monitoring pipelines
  • Create and maintain architecture diagrams blueprints and reusable design patterns that guide development teams
  • Drive technology decisions platform standards and architectural guidelines; lead architecture reviews and technical decision
• Data Pipeline & Cloud Platform Engineering
  • Lead design and implementation of data collection pre-analysis analysis forecasting alert and VMM pipelines ensuring data quality reliability and validation
  • Own solution delivery on Azure-based platforms including Azure Functions pipeline scheduling cloud storage and data lake integration across DEV UAT and PROD environments
  • Define and enforce best practices for CI/CD pipelines infrastructure automation and observability frameworks (logging alerting monitoring dashboards)
• System Integration & Software Delivery
  • Lead integration of measurement systems (lidar met mast sensor networks) with enterprise IT platforms ensuring data consistency reliability and traceability
  • Lead end-to-end feature delivery (Design Build Deploy Operate); review and approve code across multiple services enforcing security performance and coding standards
• Technical Governance Stakeholder Collaboration & Mentorship
  • Define and enforce engineering standards coding guidelines and architectural patterns; ensure compliance with enterprise architecture and data governance policies.
  • Act as primary technical liaison between product owners business stakeholders and development teams translating business requirements into technical architectures and delivery plans
• Mentorship & Engineering Culture
  • Mentor engineers across multiple levels; lead knowledge sharing documentation and capability-building initiatives that foster a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement

Job Requirements and Experiences:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related field or equivalent industry certification/experience
• One or more of the following certifications strongly preferred
• Microsoft Azure certifications (e.g. AZ-900 AZ-204 AZ-305) or equivalent cloud platform credential
• Minimum 7 years of relevant software engineering or data platform experience including hands-on development and technical leadership roles
• Proven experience designing and managing complex multi-stage data pipelines (ingestion analysis forecasting alerting) with strong expertise in data cleaning transformation and validation workflows
• Demonstrated experience architecting and delivering solutions on Azure-based platforms including Kubernetes (AKS) Containers Azure Functions data lake integration and multi-environment deployment management
• Experience with distributed systems microservices messaging systems (e.g. RabbitMQ) event-driven architecture and API design and integration
• Experience in designing access control for applications specifically design and/or sign off on access control schemes for human-to-system and system-to-system access
• Experience leading complex enterprise-scale IT implementations involving coordination of multiple workstreams and multi-level stakeholder communications delivering in Agile or hybrid methodologies
• Strong background in frontend development using React and Typescript backend development using C# Python Terraform or equivalent infrastructure as code experience; experience with SQL querying large-scale datasets and data formats such as Parquet and CSV
• Experience with both Linux and Windows server to be able to own Dockerfiles for both platforms and own SDPs 3rd party integrations (like with Bullfrog)
• Experience working with global team with multiple time zones from Asia Europe and Americas
• The following experience is a plus:
  • Experience with Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime).
  • Measurement systems (lidar met mast SCADA or sensor networks) and operational data ingestion
  • Time-series ML pipelines forecasting model integration or data science workflow design
  • Climate mesoscale or wind resource assessment data processing workflows
  • Hands-on experience with Azure Databricks and Delta Lake including medallion architecture
  • (Bronze/Silver/Gold) Structured Streaming and Delta Live Tables/Lakeflow pipelines is a significant plus
  • Experience with Apache Airflow (DAG authoring task orchestration scheduling and monitoring) is highly desirable and will be considered a strong differentiator given its direct applicability to coordinating SDPs multistage ingestion analysis and alerting pipelines
• Expert-level multi-domain technical knowledge with the ability to resolve highly complex cross-system problems and create strategic preventative solutions
• Strong diagnostics skills to decrease reliance on UHP team for diagnostics
• Demonstrated ability to design cost-effective systems for suboptimal deployments
• Deep understanding of Azure architecture distributed systems and enterprise data platform design
• Strong proficiency with CI/CD pipelines DevOps tooling and observability frameworks (logging metrics monitoring)
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills; able to lead cross-team initiatives and serve as a liaison between business and engineering
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers across multiple levels and drive a culture of technical excellence and innovation
• Ability to oversee multiple projects and domains simultaneously while maintaining high quality and delivery standards
• Ability to produce clear architecture documentation technical specifications and engineering standards
• Proficiency in collaboration and engineering tooling such as Azure DevOps Jira Confluence GitHub or equivalent
• Intellectually curious self-directed and committed to staying current with emerging technologies and engineering practices
• Detail-oriented with strong technical acumen and the ability to translate complex domain requirements into sound engineering decisions
• Demonstrated interest in the renewable energy industry and a commitment to supporting RWEs clean energy mission
• This position is an office-based role with some travel and visits to other RWE Americas office and field locations
• Must be able to sit walk or stand for long durations of time

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. RWE Americas is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time.

Benefits offered:Medical Dental Vision Life Insurance Short-Term Disability Long-Term Disability 401(k) match Flexible Spending Accounts EAP Education Assistance Parental Leave Paid time off and Holidays. Eligible employees also participate in short-term incentives in addition to salary.

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RWE Americas a subsidiary of RWE is a US-based energy company that is helping to meet the growing demand for energy across the United States. Backed by RWEs 125-year global legacy of managing diverse power assets RWE Americas operates approximately 13 GW of power projects across 27 states. With a talented workforce of 2000 employees RWE Americas develops constructs and operates wind solar and battery storage projects along with natural gas-powered generation that safely deliver affordable reliable electricity to our customers. Committed to responsible development RWE Americas invests in local and rural communities creating jobs and partnering with stakeholders to support and strengthen the places where we live and work. Learn more about how RWE Americas is generating impact at.

At RWE Americas we foster a culture defined by our Essential Behaviors Have Courage Create Impact and Actively Collaborate. We encourage bold thinking and continuous learning and we value ownership resilience and inclusion in everything we do. When you join us you become part of a team that supports your development respects your contributions and celebrates shared success. This is a place where you can grow your career and make a meaningful difference.