Southwest Power Pool (SPP) is about more than power. We're about the power of relationships. Our employees have the opportunity to work together to ensure electricity is delivered reliably and affordably to the millions of people living in our service territory. We have been voted one of Arkansas' Best Places to work by Arkansas Business and we are looking for a member of our team who is passionate about our mission to keep the lights on!
We have a core ideology here at SPP that we stand by: Do the right thing, for the right reason, in the right way.
We believe in supporting our employees through a fantastic benefits package:
- Competitive pay with bonus opportunities
- Excellent insurance package including three great medical plans to choose from, employer-paid short term disability, long term disability, and life insurance
- Relocation assistance
- Flexible working environment for positions that are eligible where employees have the flexibility to work from home and come in where collaborative in person work is needed.
- Fantastic contributions to your retirement through a 401(k) savings plan with employer-match benefits and a defined benefit plan fully funded by SPP
Join our team as a Programmer Developer!
At SPP, financial applications are the core of the services we provide, powering critical aspects of financial technology like credit, congestion hedging auctions, and regulatory rates. These applications are a mix of vendor and in-house developed solutions, built using technologies like Java, Springboot, React, C#, ASP.NET Core, SQL, and ETL processes.
We're looking for a Programmer Developer to join our evolving IT Financial Applications team! If you love working with new technologies, such as containers, Ansible, Kubernetes, and more, you'll fit right in. We're constantly exploring new tools to enhance how IT and the business collaborate.
In this role, you'll engage in the entire SDLC and project lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, testing, deployment, and coordinating with teams, vendors, and stakeholders. You'll have the opportunity to multi-task, problem-solve, and support complex, highly integrated systems.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Enhancing, maintaining, and supporting both vendor and custom financial software applications that play a crucial role in SPP's financial operations.
- Helping facilitate transmission congestion rights auctions, managing member collateral requirements and credit amounts, and supporting network upgrade cost sharing.
- Ensuring regulatory rates and requirements are set accurately in accordance with the tariff.
If you're ready to make a meaningful impact, learn new technologies, and work with a dynamic team, apply now to join SPP!
To be successful as the Programmer Developer, we're looking for:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, related field, or equivalent work experience
- Senior Programmer Developer - Six (6) years of applicable Information Technology Development/Support experience
- Programmer Developer II - Three (3) years' experience of Information Technology Development/Support experience
- Competent and effective working knowledge of Microsoft Windows, Unix or Linux operating systems, application development and support, and database management systems
- Competent and effective troubleshooting, problem solving, and analytical skills
- Competent and effective written and oral communication skills
- Competent understanding and effective working knowledge of SDLC and project life cycle methods and practices
- Good customer service and organization skills
Preferred:
- Two (2) or more years applicable utility industry experience
- Java, Springboot, React
- C#/ASPNETCORE, SQL, Extract Transform Load (ETL)
- Containers, Kubernetes, Docker
- Scripting experience: Powershell, Perl, Shell scripting
- Web Service / SOAP / WSDL / XSD Experience
- Ansible, JIRA, Bitbucket, and Jenkins Experience
- Oracle PL/SQL or Microsoft SQL Development Experience
Southwest Power Pool Inc.
415 N McKinley
Little Rock
Arkansas United States
www.spp.org
