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Southern Company

Developer I, Application

Company: 
Southern Company
City: 
Birmingham
State: 
Alabama
Occupational fields: 
Technology
Employment type: 
Full time
Remote Position: 
No
Required degree level: 
Other
Company: Southern Company, Posted: April 13, 2024

Job Description

Application Developer

This posting is for an Application Developer located in Birmingham, Alabama. The position will be filled in the Electric Technology Solutions Fleet Operations and Trading Portfolio supporting Southern Company's Fleet Operations and Trading business.

This position is responsible for software application development, support, and technical expertise in support of Fleet Operations and Trading (Trading Floor). The primary responsibilities include designing, developing, testing, implementing, integrating, and supporting application solutions (desktop, web applications, and web services). Microsoft .NET is the primary development platform. Fleet Operations and Trading supports critical real-time systems and financial contracts vital to Southern Company and the successful candidate ensures systems are developed, maintained, and operated to attain highly accurate and dependable business solutions. The successful candidate should not only have a strong technical background but the desire to learn business concepts and processes.

Job Experience & Education:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Engineering, Math, Business, or related degree (preferred)
  • Experience designing, developing, testing, implementing, integrating, and supporting applications (desktop, web applications, and web services) (required)
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience with development
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience with relational databases (SQL Server, Oracle, ...)


Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

  • Strong all-around development and technical skills.
  • Ability to quickly learn new technologies and application domains.
  • Solid experience in all areas of the Microsoft .NET development platform and other Microsoft technologies is required. Knowledge areas include:
    • Microsoft .NET and .NET Framework; C#, WPF, ASP.NET (Blazor, Razor Pages, or MVC), ASP.NET Web API, Entity Framework
    • Web development experience including: JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, and AngularJS
    • Visual Studio
  • REST-based service development is a plus
  • Experience using relational databases and SQL. SQL Server, Oracle, data modeling, and O/R mapping knowledge is required.
  • Experience with Source Control, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery is a plus. Experience with Git, TeamCity, and GitHub Enterprise is a plus.
  • Experience using Agile software development methodologies is a plus.
  • Real-world experience with full life-cycle development and delivery of enterprise-class software solutions using the latest technologies and platforms (.NET or Java) and latest software development best practices and techniques including design patterns, test-driven development, and object-oriented frameworks.
  • A strong working knowledge of domain-driven design, design patterns, enterprise application architecture patterns, enterprise integration patterns, analysis patterns and OOA/OOD in general and refactoring.
  • Ability to develop simple, elegant solutions to complex problems.
  • Ability to design intuitive user interfaces for complex data-rich applications.
  • Ability to take direction and work as a member of a high performing team; overall excellent teamwork skills.
  • Strong communication skills including ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders at an appropriate level of detail.



Behavioral Attributes

  • Results-oriented
  • Team player
  • Commitment to continuous learning and improvement; stays abreast of new technologies
  • Must be flexible and able to change directions quickly and comfortably
  • Ability to work independently of direct supervision
  • Self-starter who takes initiative and does what it takes to meet commitments
  • Thinks strategically
  • Innovative
  • Committed to building and maintaining constructive partnerships with business partners
  • Can-do positive attitude


Other Considerations

  • Directly supports business critical and key financial applications; so limited after hours and weekend support is necessary
  • Limited travel


#LI

Together with our subsidiaries, we deliver clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy to our 9 million customers. Our focus is doing so with service excellence.

That means we are leaders who take action to meet our customers’ and communities’ needs while advancing our commitment to net zero emissions by 2050. We create community value through energy, social, economic, and environmental progress.

We do this through electric operating companies in three states and natural gas distribution companies in four. Our family of companies draw on diverse energy sources to create the best mix for our service areas, including electricity, natural gas, solar power, carbon-free nuclear, and other sustainable sources.

We leverage our leading distributed energy infrastructure company and other innovative technology to better serve every customer. Our competitive, national generation company serves wholesale customers, and our family includes a fiber optics network, and telecommunications services.

We have positioned diversity and inclusion as critical to our success enabling us to put the needs and well-being of the people we serve at the center of all that we do.

Southern Company believes all employees should feel welcome, valued, respected and heard. Our goal is a workplace in which all employees contribute to their fullest and a workforce that reflects our customers and communities. We accomplish this by valuing and leveraging the full range of differences and similarities we bring to our teams, customers and communities.

Workplace Awards

  • 2023 100% Corporate Equality Index Score - Human Rights Campaign (7th consecutive year)
  • 2023 America's Best-In-State Employers – Forbes
    • Southern Company (No. 1 in Alabama, No. 5 in Georgia)
  • 2023 Best Employers for Women (No. 9) - Forbes
  • 2023 America’s Greatest Workplaces – Newsweek
  • 2023 Best Companies for Multicultural Women – Seramount
  • 2023 Top 50 Companies for Diversity - DiversityInc (8th consecutive year)
    • No. 1 Top Company for Black executives
    • No. 3 Top Company for Veterans
    • No. 5 Top Company for Supplier Diversity
    • No. 14 - Top Company for Executive Diversity Councils
  • 2022 Global 200 – Forbes
  • 2022 Best Employers for Women - Forbes
  • 2023 America’s Best Employers for Diversity - Forbes
  • 2023 America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity - Newsweek
  • 2023 America’s Best Large Employers – Forbes
    • No. 15 overall, top utility
  • 2023 Top 100 Military-Friendly Employer (No. 2) - GI Jobs magazine
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