Power Systems Application Engineer - Energy Market Data Management

The opportunity:

Hitachi Energy is a world leader that is advancing a sustainable energy future for all. We are advancing the world's energy system to be more sustainable, flexible, and secure, and we collaborate with customers and partners to enable a sustainable energy future - for today's generations and those to come.

The Hitachi Energy Indian Operations Center (INOPC) is a competence center with around 3000+ skilled engineers who focus on tendering, engineering, planning, procurement, project Management, functional system testing, installation supervision, documentation and commissioning. However, over the last decade, it has evolved to become the largest Operations hub. The India Operations Centre team at Chennai, Bangalore and Gurugram supports Hitachi Energy's units in more than 40 countries across a wide portfolio of all the four business units in Hitachi Energy to date, the team has executed engineering and commissioning for projects in more than 80 countries.

• Analyze and understand customer engineering, business and software requirements, propose effective and efficient data management solutions, estimate required effort, identify risks and formulate implementation approach and assumptions.
• Understand database design concepts, the benefits and limits of various types of databases and ability to recognize how to efficiently store and analyze various types of data.
• Design, develop, test, integrate and document data management applications and related work for customer projects, while following best engineering and software development practices.
• Support software releases and assist onsite/support team with expert knowledge, problem analysis, troubleshoot and resolution of defects as required to bringing issues to closure.
• Actively research and further own knowledge in data management skills and improve software development practices and documentation.
• Must be willing to travel for short periods of time to visit or support customers around the world.
• Living Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

• Master's degree or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering with special emphasis on Power System and Data Management skills.
• Should have 5+ years of experience.
• Demonstrated programming skills in high performance, high programming level languages such as C/FORTRAN/C++.
• Should have Power Systems analysis experience.
• Familiarity with operating systems such as Linux or similar.
• Proficient skills in English written and oral communication.
• Formal classroom education in Data Management course.
• Formal classroom education in Data Structures and Databases.
• Experience developing power system application software for Electric Utilities or Electricity Markets.
• Experience with multi-threading, high performance, memory intensive analytical applications.