Developer Sr, Application

Application Developer

Location: Birmingham, Alabama (Onsite 4 days a week)

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. Microsoft .NET is the primary development platform. Fleet Operations and Trading support 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.

Job Experience & Education:

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

Technical Skills

(Required)

• Microsoft .NET
• C#
• AI-assisted development
• ASP.NET Core Web Apps (Blazor, Razor Pages, or MVC)
• ASP.NET Core Web APIs (Controllers, Minimal APIs, or gRPC)
• Visual Studio, GitHub Copilot, Postman
• SQL Server, T-SQL, Entity Framework Core
• git, CI/CD
  
  

Technical Skills

(Advantageous)

• WPF
• IIS
• Infragistics Controls
• SignalR
• PowerShell
• GitHub, GitHub Actions
• Fortify, Sonatype
• WCF
• OpenTelemetry
• Clover DX
• Docker, OpenShift, Podman
• Azure, AWS
• ML.NET, MCP, Agent Framework
• Databricks
• Python
• Pandas, NumPy, SciPy
• PyTorch, Scikit-learn
  
  

Professional Skills

• General and practical knowledge of AI concepts, tools, and paradigms
• Ambition to be a continuous learner of technology and to become a student of the Southern Company business developing a deep knowledge of the Fleet Operations and Trading domains
• Ability to be resilient in ambiguous situations with minimum requirements; able to approach challenges from multiple perspectives and show an appropriate level of self-sufficiency; able to elicit requirements from business partners
• Participate in the entire life cycle of software development and delivery from ideation to deployment using the latest technologies and platforms employing modern best practices and techniques including UX specifications, design patterns, OOA/OOD, DDD, and enterprise architecture patterns
• Ability to utilize DevSecOps tools and best practices to build and deploy software, advocating a DevOps culture and shifting security left in development
• Ability to collaborate with a variety of teammates to build and support apps; strong communication skills especially the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders at an appropriate level of detail.
  
  

Other Considerations

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

• Limited travel
  
  

This position falls under the company's Insider Threat Program and will have access to, and control over sensitive data, systems or assets. Enhanced personnel screening, which includes a background review, drug screen and psychological assessment, will be required if you are selected for this position

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