Principal Software Engineer - Generation IT

Principal Software Engineer - Generation IT

Kennett Square, Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; Chicago, Illinois; WARRENVILLE, Illinois; Houston, Texas; De Pere, Wisconsin

Information Technology

Hybrid

138261

E04- E04 Exempt Ladder

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Job Description

Who We Are

As the largest private-sector power producer in the world and the nation's largest producer of clean and reliable energy, Constellation is focused on our purpose: lighting the way to a brilliant tomorrow for all. We have been the leader in clean energy production for more than a decade, and we are cultivating a workplace where our employees can grow, thrive, and contribute. Now integrated with Calpine, our portfolio includes 55 gigawatts of capacity from nuclear, natural gas, geothermal, hydro, wind and solar facilities, with the generating capacity to power the equivalent of 27 million homes.

Our culture and employee experience make it clear: We are powered by passion and purpose. Together, we're creating healthier communities and a cleaner planet, and our people are the driving force behind our success. At Constellation, you can build a fulfilling career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact. By doing our best work and meeting new challenges, we can accomplish great things. Join us in meeting the country's energy needs today and tomorrow.

Total Rewards

Constellation offers an extensive selection of benefits and rewards to help our employees thrive professionally and personally. We provide competitive compensation and a wide-range of benefits that support both employees and their families, helping them prepare for the future.

In addition to highly competitive salaries, eligible employees are offered a bonus program, 401(k) with company match, employee stock purchase program; comprehensive medical, dental and vision benefits, including robust wellbeing programs; disability and life insurance benefits; paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick days; and much more.

Expected salary range of $138,600 to $154,000, varies based on experience, along with comprehensive benefits package that includes bonus and 401(k).

Primary Purpose of Position

Constellation is seeking a highly technical and strategic Principal Software Engineer to lead the architecture, design, development, and modernization of enterprise software solutions that support business operations, power generation, and digital transformation initiatives. This role serves as the organization's top technical expert for application design and software engineering practices, partnering closely with business stakeholders, architects, cybersecurity teams, infrastructure teams, product owners, and other engineering leaders.

The Principal Software Engineer will drive technical and consistent excellence across multiple applications and platforms while influencing enterprise engineering standards, cloud adoption, AI integration, operational resiliency, integration platforms and software modernization efforts.

A Principal Software Engineer is a hands-on subject matter expert who is responsible for the overall software design of many components within systems and can lead the technical implementation of multiple initiatives. This role also will cover operational application production support of multiple systems across portfolios. The position requires strong cross-team & cross-functional coordination/collaboration and even stronger communication skills working with senior management, technology leadership peers, key business partners, technical staff, and external partners.

The candidate needs great interpersonal skills, enjoys dealing with tight schedules, can solve complex problems and will thrive in our high-energy, fast-paced environment. They will also be expected to be willing to take on additional engineering and leadership duties as assigned.

Primary Duties and Accountabilities

Drive multiple projects through to delivery, removing obstacles as needed to ensure success.

Provide Technology Production support for multiple high Business value applications in an operational capacity across Portfolios.

Develop architecture and design of large-scale distributed software services and solutions.

Drive improvements to software engineering practices.

Prioritize technology investments to balance short- and long-term goals.

Collaborate with teams across Constellation to achieve goals, promote collaboration across teams for code reuse and knowledge sharing and mentor and develop others.

Keep up to date with industry trends and apply projects as appropriate. Identify investments needed to improve business/customer/partner experience through a data driven approach.

Provide coaching/ mentorship for IT personnel. Participate in career development and recognition activities. Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion and foster teamwork, collaboration, and a learning organization.

Cloud expansion including Azure, Appian (AWS), etc.

Architecting integrations for Generation portfolio applications including considerations for advancing Artificial Intelligence adoption

Managing high-availability environments and regulated operational environments

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems or a Technical Program and 8 years of experience, or 12 years of equivalent experience in lieu of the degree

8-years of experience in area of technical specialty; or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

3-years architecting distributed systems

Experience with migrating workloads from onprem to cloud such as GCP

10-years IT application production support experience supporting multiple applications across portfolios in an operational environment servicing an enterprise level user base

10-years software design and development experience with backend and database services such as SQL or NoSQL databases Oracle, SQL Server, Cosmos DB, MySQL, Redis, Splunk

9-years relevant hands-on experience in object programming languages such as: Python, Perl, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, NodeJS, .NET, HTML, AngularJS, iOS Swift and/or Objective, Android Mobile, Xamarin, or Python

Preferred Qualifications

Ability to effectively share technical information, communicate technical issues and solutions to all levels of business

Able to juggle multiple projects - can identify primary and secondary objectives, prioritize time, and communicate timeline to team members

Ability and desire to take product/project ownership

Ability to work a flexible schedule based on department and Company needs

Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.

Experience in DevOps to maintain live services and\or application frameworks.

Cloud and services experience with Azure cloud experience highly desirable.

Excellent analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design.

Passion for building highly scalable, exceptionally reliable services.

Experience with or exposure to Agile Scrum, Kanban, and interactive development processes.

Appian PaaS experience

Experience with data lakes, data warehouses and data bricks

Experience architecting and developing AI Integrations

Experience developing high-availability environments

Experience working within regulated operational environments

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems or Technical Program with 8 years experience, or 12 years equivalent experience; 8 years in technical specialty.
• 3 years architecting distributed systems; experience migrating workloads from on-prem to cloud (e.g., GCP).
• 10 years IT application production support and software design/development with backend/database services and 9 years hands-on in object programming languages.