Description :
Business Unit: GE Infrastructure, Energy
Function: Engineering/Technology
Location: Dallas, TX
Job #: 836248
Posted: Sep 17, 2008 Responsibilities
The Senior Software Engineer is a key contributor individually and as a member of a project team. Personnel at this level are expected to be able to serve in a role of a technical or project contributor in a project, application, or technical area as part of a project team with minimal guidance.
This level should be capable of providing recommendations to other more junior personnel as part of a project team, and propose alternatives to the project lead. The Senior Software Engineer should be able to work independently to solve moderately complex application and technical problems.
* Provides GE MapFrame application development and configuration services to clients and internal development teams.
* Delivers solutions to clients.
* Demonstrates and promotes excellence in all aspects of development including design, coding standards, testing and documentation.
* Participates with project technical leads and project management efforts on projects and provides technical support to the project manager.
* Participates in statement of work and functional requirement customer write-ups, customer and project management status calls, submission of technical documentation for development work, draft and review of end user documentation.
* Participates in the design, development of customer projects using MapFrame application configurations, GIS / CIS / DMS extractions tools and methodologies, and appropriate programming languages.
* Reviews user requirements and proposes system and application design.
* Participates in technical reviews of papers and presentations developed by other employees.
* Participates in development of training materials and delivery of training as appropriate.
* Reviews technical designs and other project deliverables.
* Participates in the development of testing and training materials and supports and/or performs testing, training, and application deployment tasks for client.
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Qualifications
* Four-year college degree or international equivalent in Geography/Cartography, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, or other field.
* Minimum of three years of work experience, developing applications using Microsoft Visual C++/MFC.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:
* Ability and willingness to travel.
Desired
* Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
* Excellent oral and written communication skills and able to discuss complex technology in a clear and concise manner with a variety of audiences.
* Solid business acumen.
* The ideal candidate will additionally have experience in one or more of the following: GIS / spatial data environments: ESRI, GE Smallworld, Intergraph, and/or Autodesk, field crew automation for electric, gas, telecommunications or cable operations, knowledge of Utility industry work management applications from MDSI (Ventyx), Viryanet, LogicaCMG, CGI, Indus, and @Road.
* Green Belt Certified (internal only)
General
* Location is negotiable. Possible location options are Dallas, TX and Denver, CO.
* Work for Fortune's Most Admired Company and enjoy incredible growth potential for General Electric. We currently have a Project Manager position available in MapFrame, a division of GE Energy providing high-tech, software solutions to the Utility/Public Service and Telecomm industries.
* GE Energy ( [link removed] ) electrifies the world by providing reliable, efficient products and services for the energy industry. We help businesses and authorities that generate, transmit or use electricity. We work in all areas of the energy industry including coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear energy, as well as with renewable resources such as water and wind energy.
* GE Energy's Transmission & Distribution (T&D) is a division of GE Energy Services. Our business offers the best hardware & software products, services & solutions in the control, transmission & distribution of electricity. You will be part of the business that develops, implements, & provides high-tech software solutions such as Grid management software, automation systems, meters, power transformers & capacitors that enable grid intelligence processes for the electric, utility, public service & telecomm industries. This is an exciting time to join our business. [link removed] >
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