October 1, 2026
Electric Energy Jobs

Solution Engineer Principal

Organization:
American Electric Power
Region:
Canada, Ohio, Gahanna
End of contest:
December 30, 2026
Type:
full time
Category:
Engineer
Description
Job Summary

Part of a larger team delivering high-quality technology solutions to the business. Design, develop and install advanced software solutions. Build high-quality, innovative and fully performing software in compliance with internal architecture, development & design standards & best practices. Design, modify, develop, write, implement and troubleshoot software programming applications. Support and/or install software applications. Participate in the testing process through test review and analysis, test witnessing and certification of software.  Works within a Waterfall or Agile methodology/framework-based team. Collaborates heavily with Project Management, Business Analyst and Infrastructure Job Families.

**Please Note: We are looking for someone with .Net experience

Job Description

What you'll do:

  • Responsibilities include one or more of the following for any sized project: Develop solutions to resolve customer and prospective customer issues in a logical, creative and structured manner.
  • Align the client's goals, needs and objectives to the solutions.
  • Communicate issues and status in a clear, timely manner.
  • Interpret specifications and build advanced solutions to those specifications.Support the business strategy by acting as an expert of the company's services and products, including usage, architecture, functionality and deployment.
  • Develop custom presentations and demonstrations.Generates infrastructure support documentation.
  • Make proposals and help to write request for proposal (RFP) responses.Evaluate and propose process improvements.
  • Maintain the highest level of knowledge about the company's software/hardware products.                                
  • May provide training and mentoring, as well as work direction, to others on the team.                                         

What we're looking for:

Education:

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field is required.

Experience:

  • 7 years relevant work experience is required.
  • An equivalent combination of education and related experience may be considered.

Other Must Haves:

  • Demonstrated experience designing and delivering software solutions using modern AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot or similar.
  • Proven experience applying DevOps principles throughout the software development lifecycle, including CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, monitoring, observability, security integration, and production support in enterprise environments.

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Contact

American Electric Power

1 Riverside Plaza

Columbus

Ohio United States

www.aep.com