IT Solutions Engineer

Pay Rate: $70 - $90 per hour

Summary:

• Location: Oakland, CA
• Duration: 8 Months
• Work Mode: Onsite on an as-needed basis
• Travel: Up to 3 hours each way within one business day

Responsibilities:

• Assist other Engineers in creating comprehensive technology platform solution designs that meet business solution requirements on IT projects.
• Apply knowledge of IT standards, service offerings, and operational options to aid in developing an implementation approach of technology solution alternatives.
• Ensure that the physical design and configuration of the delivered solutions align with the logical design.
• Promote the development and reuse of common solutions, components, and services.
• Collaborate with domain-specific Engineers, Architects, Product Specialists, System Design Engineers, and technologists to complete IT deliverables.
• Work with other engineers, architects, and product specialists to ensure that products and components work together to meet objectives and performance goals as defined in the requirements.
• Assist with buy vs. build decisions, business requirements impact analysis, refinement of early-phase project estimates which contribute to the business case, and implementation level design.
• Provide support for Solution Engineering design decisions during plan, analyze, design, build, test, and deploy phases of IT projects.

Requirements:

• Associate's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related degree or equivalent experience.

Preferred Skills:

• Bachelor's degree.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or other job-related certification.
• IT engineering design and/or technical project implementation experience.
• Project Management IT experience.
• Ability to quickly learn and understand a core business area of a utility and how technology plays a key enabler/support role.
• Ability to quickly learn process design, information modeling, or system architecture within a core business area of a utility.
• Ability to quickly develop an understanding of the Solution Engineering discipline, processes, concepts, and best practices.
• Exposure to a process improvement discipline (e.g., Six Sigma) used within a technology-supported business process implementation.