This is a CONTRACT POSITION.
Your employment will be held by a third-party company of ENGIE’s choosing. Any offered contract role will not constitute an offer for nor guarantee of future employment with ENGIE.

Duration:
•    One Year

Compensation:
•    Pay Rate: $80.00/hr.

Location:
•    Houston (Hybrid)

What You Can Expect
The Application Engineer is a highly visible position and a key contributor to evolve and build exciting solutions for the grid-scale storage group with national and global impacts. By understanding the operations, the Application Engineer will work with a dedicated team in enhancing existing products and collaborating with cross functional groups to develop high quality and robust solutions.

•    Initial responsibilities will involve a migration effort and understanding the various processes and custom applications. 
•    Collaborate with a team that is dedicated to architecting, planning, designing and delivering enterprise level solutions for the grid-scale storage group. 
•    Deliver new solutions in the cloud that can be leveraged for global and regional ingestion for models and analysis and also transactional activities. 
•    Engage with cross functional groups and stakeholders. 
•    Learn and utilize knowledge of storage operations for day-ahead, real-time, ancillary services, PnL, settlement, visualization, forecasting, modeling and compliance as it relates to the market protocols and operations. 
•    Derive baseline requirements that will convert to valuable, robust, flexible, and quality solutions. 
•    Potential development areas include comprehensive user interfaces, dashboards, reports, custom APIs, data integration, database, microservices and other areas that might be identified and prioritized. 
•    Implement, enhance or recommend processes that provides efficiency such as strong development and coding standards and version control. 
•    Provide immediate support, including non-business hours (rotational) 
•    Explore and evaluate potential solutions and services.

What You’ll Bring
•    Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. 
•    Heavy application development and integration experience. 
•    Experience supporting the needs of an energy trading business preferred. 
•    Proficient with Microsoft and Linux operating systems. 
•    ISO market knowledge, primarily with ERCOT and CAISO with a focus on storage and battery, highly desirable. 
•    Cloud technologies and services with Azure and AWS.
•    Working knowledge of ISO markets and/or trading preferred. 
•    Vast experience in data integration with websites, APIs, databases, and cloud platforms (AWS and Azure). 
•    Converting on-premise applications to utilize available cloud solutions and services. 
•    Experience building complex user interfaces using Javascript, React, or Angular. 
•    Deep knowledge and development using C#/.NET and Python. The ability to potentially learn other languages such as R is desirable. 
•    Deep experience working with multiple Azure and AWS services and solutions for heavy transactional processes.

Additional Details
•    This role is eligible for our hybrid work policy; explain any work outside of the typical policy 
•    Must be willing and able to comply with ENGIE’s policy with respect to COVID vaccination and testing 
•    Must be willing and able to comply with all ENGIE ethics and safety policies 

Why ENGIE?
ENGIE North America isn’t just participating in the Zero-Carbon Transition, we’re leading it!  Join us as we develop energy that is renewable, efficient, and accessible to everyone.   
 
At ENGIE, our goal is to support, promote, and thrive on diversity, equity, and inclusion.  We do so for the benefit of our employees, customers, products and services, and community.  ENGIE is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace, and we are firmly committed to creating an equitable and inclusive environment for all employees. 

We are committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status. 
 
If you need assistance with this application or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at ENGIENA-ENGIEHR@engie.com. This email address is reserved for individuals with disabilities in need of assistance and is not a means of inquiry regarding positions or application status. 
 
We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role at any time.
 
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