Responsibilities

• Provide technical and people leadership for two Agile Scrum teams, driving execution excellence, engineering quality, and predictable delivery of Grid Software products.
• Define and drive the technical vision, architecture strategy, and technology roadmap across both legacy and contemporary product portfolios.
• Lead key architecture and design decisions, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with long-term business objectives.
• Drive modernization initiatives, balancing investments between sustaining mission-critical legacy applications and adopting modern cloud-native architectures.
• Oversee development of enterprise-grade software solutions using C++, Java, microservices, cloud technologies, Kubernetes, and containerized platforms.
• Champion engineering best practices including Agile development, DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, security, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Partner with architects, product managers, power system domain experts, and global engineering teams to translate customer and utility requirements into effective technical solutions.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers, fostering innovation, accountability, and continuous learning across teams.
• Drive software quality, performance, reliability, and scalability through architecture reviews, code quality initiatives, and engineering governance.
• Build and develop high-performing engineering teams through hiring, talent development, succession planning, and career coaching.
• Lead technical risk management, dependency management, and execution planning across multiple concurrent product initiatives.
• Promote a culture of operational excellence, customer focus, and continuous improvement while delivering strategic outcomes for the Grid Software portfolio.

Desired Characteristics

• Proven technical leadership experience leading multiple software development teams in a product engineering organization.
• Strong background in software architecture, distributed systems, microservices, cloud-native application design, and modernization of enterprise platforms.
• Hands-on understanding of technologies including C++, Java, Kubernetes, Docker, DevOps toolchains, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms.
• Experience balancing the needs of legacy product sustainment and modernization, driving architectural evolution without compromising customer commitments.
• Demonstrated ability to make strategic technology and architecture decisions that improve scalability, maintainability, and long-term product viability.
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, design patterns, quality engineering, security, and performance optimization.
• Experience leading Agile teams and scaling engineering execution through Scrum, SAFe, or similar frameworks.
• Knowledge of power systems, transmission operations, EMS, SCADA, grid applications, or utility software solutions is highly desirable.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills with the ability to align technical and business priorities.
• Strong passion for talent development, team building, technical mentoring, and creating an inclusive, high-performance engineering culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, or a related STEM discipline.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience in technical leadership and people management roles.
• Demonstrated experience leading multiple Scrum teams and delivering complex enterprise software products.
• Proven expertise in software architecture, system design, technical strategy, and large-scale product development.
• Experience with C++, Java, cloud technologies, Kubernetes, microservices architectures, and DevOps practices.
• Prior experience in Grid Software, Energy Management Systems, Utility Applications, Industrial Software, or related domains is preferred.