ADMS Engineer (ADMS, Senior, Lead)

About Ameren Services (B&CS)

Ameren Services provides administrative support and services to Ameren Corporation and its operating companies, subsidiaries and affiliates. Ameren Services includes a wide range of skill sets and roles, from finance and legal experts to digital and cyber specialists, plus those charged with ensuring environmental compliance and operational safety. Together, we help execute a strategy that enables Ameren to deliver superior long-term value to customers, shareholders and the environment.

Our benefits include:

• Medical coverage on date of hire

• 100% employer paid cash balance pension plan

• 401(k) with company match fully vested on date of hire

• Minimum of 15 days paid vacation and 12 paid holidays

• Paid parental leave and family caregiver leave

Visit our Benefits & Perks (https://www.ameren.com/company/careers/why-ameren/benefits) Page for more information on benefits provided to regular full-time employees. ​

About The Position

It has never been a more exciting time to work in the energy industry. The electric distribution grid is in transformation to a smarter, more resilient, cleaner, and greener (solar, wind) grid . Advanced systems for grid monitoring and control will be at the forefront of these efforts. This position requires an Engineer to collaborate with a talented team within Digital and Operations to design, implement, and maintain our leading-edge technology suite known as the Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS). Our ADMS platform is utilized within our Distribution Control Center and provides operators with real time awareness and control of the Ameren Distribution electric grid serving over 2.4 million customers . From a more technical perspective the ADMS platform is comprised of an industry leading vendor solution including SCADA – Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, Outage Management, Distribution Management (maps and switching), Voltage Optimization, and other advanced functions. In addition, we have integrated the platform with many other corporate systems and technologies to enable interaction with our Customers reporting and checking power outages, and field service/mobile workers responding to those situations.

In this position you will be involved in crafting and building the future of electric utility operations.

The ADMS system has a 24x7x365 availability requirement and so applicant will be required to provide off hours support as needed.

A diverse technology portfolio keeps the ADMS system operational, technologies include: Virtual VxRail Linux and Windows Servers, Multiple Database technologies (Oracle, Sql Server, Cassandra), Palo Alto Firewalls, Mulesoft Enterprise Service Bus, Splunk SIEM, Dynatrace Application Monitoring, GIS Mapping of electrical components to their physical location in ERSI based map systems.

Key responsibilities include:

• ​​Provide technical and user support to system operators, division office workers, division engineering, and information technology personnel

• ​Provide training and documentation when needed/requested

• ​Aggregate and model data to create reports and dashboards in various BI tools. (PowerBI, SSRS, OBIEE)

• ​Analyze, recommend, design, plan, test,implementand support ADMS

• ​Perform system/data analysis, design software enhancements, test system functionality, andmaintainapplication configuration settings of the ADMS applications

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​ May assist senior staff with the following:

• ​Engage with ADMS vendor, user groups, and utility peers to ensure Ameren's requirements are incorporated into future software releases

• ​Provide input into technological process/standards/methodologyfor cloud-based configuration;identifiesgaps and develops training plans

• ​Enable smart grid with applications including SCADA, Power Flow, Fault Locating, Switching, Outage Management

• ​Perform root cause analysis and develop action plans and priorities for backlogs (identifyingshort- and long-term solutions); may lead implementation of plans

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Qualifications - ADMS Engineer

• ​​​​Bachelor’s degreerequired, preferably in engineering,mathematicsor computer science

• ​Three or more years ofdirectly relatedexperiencerequired

• ​Experience with Electric Power Distribution systems and applications such as Advanced Distribution Management System, Outage Analysis System, GIS Geographic Information Systems, and Electric Circuit Analysis systems preferred

• ​Experience with software applications development, relational databases, and server / network infrastructure preferred​​​

Qualifications - Senior ADMS Engineer

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in engineering, mathematics or computer science

• ​Five or more years of relevant experience required

​Experience with two or more of the following systems or technologies is required:

• ​Electric Power Distribution,

• ​Advanced Distribution Management System,

• ​Outage Analysis System,

• ​GIS Geographic Information System,

• ​Electric Circuit Analysis,

• ​Software applications development,

• ​Relational databases, and

• ​Server / network infrastructure

Qualifications - Lead ADMS Engineer

• ​​​​Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in engineering, mathematics or computer science

• ​Seven or more years of relevant experience required

​Experience with three or more of the following systems or technologies is required:

• ​Electric Power Distribution,

• ​Advanced Distribution Management System,

• ​Outage Analysis System,

• ​GIS Geographic Information System,

• ​Electric Circuit Analysis,

• ​Software applications development,

• ​Relational databases, and

• ​Server / network infrastructure

Additional Information

Ameren’s selection process includes a series of interviews and may include a leadership assessment process. Specific details will be provided to qualified candidates.

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Compensation Range:

$84,400.00 - $204,400.00

• This pay range encompasses multiple levels of the role. Career level and compensation depends upon applicant’s credentials.

At Ameren, base salary is one component of a competitive compensation package for employees. Our pay ranges are broad to allow for movement within our organization and to accommodate different skill sets and levels of expertise. We take into consideration a variety of factors including, but not limited to, skills, abilities, experience, education, credentials, and internal equity when determining the base salary offered. Roles are eligible for additional rewards including annual incentive payments based on individual and company performance.

If end date is listed, the posting will come down at 12:00 am on that date:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, military service or status, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other class, trait, or status protected by law.