Senior Implementation Engineer - Opower

Job Description

If you are passionate about energy efficiency & carbon footprint reduction, growing your technical skills, working with clients, or love working in a cross functional team setup, this is the role for you!

The implementation engineering team helps our utility partners integrate with the Opower platform and plays an essential technical role in implementing Opower's SaaS-based energy efficiency and customer engagement programs. You will work directly with our utility partners' technical and project teams to integrate their data with our platform and to configure our applications to meet their program requirements. Additionally, you will work with a broad group of other teams at Opower, including project managers and product engineering teams.

Implementation engineers have a diverse set of technical skills in conjunction with customer facing skills, with a focus on delivering high-quality products customized for our utility partners' needs. A typical week might involve ingesting and analyzing utility data; running Unix command-line text manipulation tools; writing python scripts to automate work; adding documentation; working with a utility partner's technical team; and collaborating with R&D teams on future roadmap projects.

You will be an ideal candidate for this job if you have solid understanding of relational databases, are comfortable with advanced UNIX commands, have done some basic programming, and do not hesitate to ask questions. You will work with a variety of teams in different contexts, making the role a good opportunity if you are looking to develop new skills while helping us accomplish our mission of energy efficiency & carbon footprint reduction for our utility partners.

There is flexibility to work remotely full-time, otherwise we have teams located in Oracle's Redwood City, CA and Arlington, VA offices. You will join a team of extremely helpful engineers with different cultural and professional backgrounds. Besides standard company benefits like 401k matches and unlimited PTO, you will have an excellent work-life balance, the ability to direct your career, and access to an abundance of educational material and professional trainings to help you grow.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities :

• ??Collaborate with utility and internal project teams on data integrations for energy efficiency product implementations
• ??Explain technical specifications of Opower data integration and products - including highlighting risks with customer experience when requirements are not met
• ??Analyze, transform, and load utility provided data to meet Opower's data requirements for a successful delivery of downstream end-user communications and web experiences
• ??Develop new or maintain tooling (in ruby or python) to make our data integration and product implementations more cost & time effective
• ??Configure and customize existing data ingest platform to meet the specific needs of each utility client
• ??Develop a deep understanding of our products and their data requirements with the ability to explain them to others with non-technical backgrounds
• ??Improve the speed and quality of our data integrations by optimizing the ingest processes and writing useful documentation.

Provide leadership to offshore implementation teams by promoting consistency across projects, including methodology, data analysis, and custom integration solutions.

About You :

Expertise in writing effective SQL or Hive queries to analyze large relational datasets

Prioritizes data quality and crafts test plans tailored to integration and product requirements.

Proficient in Unix / Linux command-line to perform advanced file searches and text manipulation

Understand code versioning concepts and have used tools like git

Familiar with Jenkins CI / CD concepts and deployment tools like Nomad

Skillful at troubleshooting software applications that involve APIs, databases, and frontend

Working knowledge of managing data in any of the cloud systems like OCI, AWS etc.

Experience writing software tools using object-oriented programming

Driving and responding to change such as crafting solutions using different pieces of information gained from multiple sources

Have 6+ years of professional experience with 2 years of technical leadership. We are open to hiring at different levels too if there's a better fit.

Responsibilities

Operates independently to provide quality work products to an engagement. Performs varied and complex duties and tasks that need independent judgment, in order to implement Oracle products and technology to meet customer needs. Applies Oracle methodology, company procedures, and leading practices. Demonstrates expertise to deliver functional and technical solutions on moderately complex customer engagements. May lead the solution design and implementation aspects of engagement(s) ensuring high quality, integrated software solutions within constraints of time and budget. May act as the team lead on projects, providing coaching, guidance and feedback to develop skills of team members. Effectively consults with management of customer organizations. Participates in business development activities. Develops and leads detailed solutions for moderately complex projects.

Disclaimer :

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US : Hiring Range in USD from : $87,000 to $178,100 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following :

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

Short term disability and long term disability

Life insurance and AD&D

Supplemental life insurance (Employee / Spouse / Child)

Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

Paid time off : Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.

11 paid holidays

Paid sick leave : 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Financial planning and group legal

Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - IC3

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