Associate, Business Applications

RWE Clean Energy, LLC 

The Associate, Buisness Applications will be responsible for analyzing, designing, and implementing business solutions that support the company's strategic goals.  The Sr. Associate will work closely with stakeholders, developers, testers, and project managers to ensure that the requirements are clear, feasible, and aligned with the business needs.  They will also provide technical support, documentation, and training for IT systems and applications.  Additionally, the ideal candidate will be responsible for overseeing and maintaining the software management portfolio system, ensuring that all applications are up-to-date, compliant, and aligned with the company's strategic objectives. The applicant must have the ability to perform tasks independently and/or with minimum guidance, and to take a leadership role in the software development life cycle to ensure project tasks are completed. This includes business use case analysis, designing or selecting the application, stakeholder communication, testing the application, deploying and documenting the solution.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with business representatives to understand, define and achieve system goals, enhance efficiency and reduce costs
• Work with software vendors to install packages or modules
• Create functional specifications, use cases, user stories, wireframes, and other artifacts that describe the desired features and functionalities of the IT systems and applications.
• Assist with the management of the Azure DevOps environment, including but not limited to setup & configuration of services, user permission management, maintaining best practices, template management and monitoring and troubleshooting pipelines & components
• Provide support and troubleshooting for the IT systems and applications to the stakeholders
• Maintain and update the documentation and knowledge base of the IT systems and applications
• Develop documents, presentations & dashboards to effectively communicate requirements and project status to relevant stakeholders
• Implement proposed software solutions that align with the business requirements and specifications of our company
• Ensure end-users can utilize software effectively and understand IT business processes through the creation of training material and hosting of training sessions

Qualifications:

• College Degree required, Computer Science, Information Systems or related field preferred
• A minumum 2 years experience with software development life cycle or equivalent is preferred
• Ability to learn new technologies as required for the job using documentation and other available sources
• Ability to handle multiple assignments with changing priorities while meeting deadlines
• Strong interpersonal skills, with ability to manage customer relationships
• Demonstrated desire to learn about the Company and the renewables space
• Excellent proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio, Project, SharePoint, Teams)
• Familiarity with administration within the Microsoft Azure DevOps platform
• Familiarity with Airtable, Lucidchart, Github Copilot, LeanIX a plus
• Working knowledge using and administering Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) tools
• Strong knowledge of business analysis methodologies, tools, and techniques, such as data flow diagrams, entity-relationship diagrams (ERD), cross functional diagrams, user stories, wireframes, Agile, Scrum, Unified Modeling Language (UML), Business Process Model & Notation (BPMN), etc.
• Strong organization skills and ability to coordinate multiple tasks and deliverables
• Motivated self-starter, goal-oriented, and strong problem-solving abilities
• Proven ability to empathize, build relationships, and effectively communicate with people from a diverse set of backgrounds at all levels of the organization
• Is a team player embracing the spirit of continuous improvement personally and within the team
• Is detail-oriented, has strong business acumen, and a sound understanding of business concepts

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• This position is an office-based role with some travel and visits to other RWECE office and field locations.  The candidate must be able to work with remote teams, both within the US and globally.  The candidate must also be able to sit, walk, or stand for long durations of time.  The candidate must be flexible to work off hours as required to install product upgrades, support production problems and other corporate emergencies.

Pay range: The annual base salary range for this position in California or New York is $71,000- $107,000. The listed salary range represents our good faith estimate for this position and represents the range for new hire salaries across all U.S locations. Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. RWE considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate’s education & work experience, training & certifications, and key skills as well as market and business considerations at the time of the offer.

Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays. Eligible employees also participate in short-term incentives, in addition to salary.

RWE is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

For 125 years RWE has been the source of energy for millions of people across the globe. Now we’re making all that energy green. This decade alone we’re investing €50bn into renewables and will be carbon neutral by 2040 – ten years earlier than most other global targets. This is a chance to play a key role on our journey.

Join our renewables specialists, working across the clean energy spectrum to grow our operations to 50 GW by 2030 – with some of the world’s largest on and offshore wind farms and industry-leading hydrogen initiatives. We’re also considered innovators in solar development including floating photovoltaics and agri-photovoltaics. Or add your expertise to our supply and trading operations, brokering renewable electricity, green gas, commodities, and CO2 emission allowances from one of our advanced energy trading floors.

We look forward to meeting you! Apply today.

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