Senior Data Management Engineer - Electricity Market

In this role, you will support the Grid Automation business at Hitachi Energy by designing and delivering data management solutions that enable electricity market operations, power system analysis, and realtime control. You will work closely with customers and internal teams to understand engineering, business, and software needs, translate those requirements into technically feasible solutions, and contribute across the full software and data engineering lifecycle-from design and development through testing, integration, and documentation.

Your work will directly support the reliability, performance, and operational effectiveness of modern power grids by ensuring that critical electricity market and power system data is processed accurately and efficiently. You will contribute to customer projects that rely on highperformance, memoryintensive analytical applications and robust data workflows, while following established engineering and software development practices. Along the way, you will continue to grow your expertise in data management for market operations and power systems, support software releases, and represent Hitachi Energy in technical discussions with customers and industry stakeholders. This role offers exposure to realworld grid challenges, opportunities to deepen your technical capabilities, and a chance to make a meaningful impact on how electricity systems operate and evolve. How You’ll Make an Impact

• Study customer engineering, business, and software requirements to propose technically feasible solutions and implementation approaches.
• Estimate effort, identify risks, and define assumptions to support successful project delivery.
• Design, develop, test, integrate, and document data management applications for electricity markets and power system-related projects.
• Support software releases by investigating issues, troubleshooting defects, and driving resolutions to closure.
• Grow and apply data management skills related to electricity market operations, power system analysis, and realtime control.
• Improve and maintain software development practices and technical documentation.
• Provide technical expertise in internal collaborations, customer meetings, and industry discussions.
• Travel for short periods to support customers and project activities when required.
• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.

• Candidate must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for Hitachi Energy in the United States.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field with a minimum of 2 years of professional experience in software development and/or the data engineering lifecycle supporting electricity markets or power systems.
• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field with research experience developing automation scripts, software applications, or database operations for electricity market data.
• Formal classroom education in Electrical Power Systems and Electricity Markets.
• Minimum 1 year of experience using highperformance programming languages such as FORTRAN, C/C++, or Python, along with relational database operations.
• Minimum 1 year of experience working in a Linux environment.

In this role, you gain handson experience working with datadriven solutions that support realworld power grid operations while collaborating with professionals across the energy sector.

• Opportunities to work on innovative technologies that shape the future of energy
• A collaborative environment with experienced professionals across the power industry
• Access to learning platforms and career development programs
• Attractive health and retirement benefits
• Paid leave and flexible work arrangements

Salary California: 126,900.00 - 158,600.00