Senior Software Engineer – ICCP & PCU - C#

Mission Statement:

Hitachi Energy India Development Centre (IDC) is a research and development facility with around 500 R&D engineers, specialists, and experts, who focus on creating and sustaining digital solutions, new products, and technology. This includes product integration, testing, cybersecurity, and certification.  The India Development Centre is situated in Chennai and Bangalore.

IDC collaborates with the R&D and Research centres of Hitachi Energy, which are spread across more than 15 locations throughout 12 countries. In the past 20 years, IDC has secured more than 200 international papers and 150+ patents.

Our customers have thousands of technicians keeping power, gas and other essential services operating daily around the planet. Our development teams write microservice based three-tier software to make this possible using Agile and SCRUM processes. Come join us and see your work transformed into a tangible product.

Your responsibilities:

• We’re looking for someone passionate both about software quality and about delivering business value to our customers.
• The ideal candidate recognizes the importance of both individual and group efforts to deliver high quality software on time.
• You’ll have the opportunity to work in large technical teams to create amazing products with us.
• You will be responsible for development of SCADA communication protocols for Network Manager PCU400.
• Candidate expected to understand the Software Requirement Specifications & Design specification and implement it as per PCU protocol framework.
• Support development teams in estimation, planning and should have worked development of Communication protocol like ICCP, IEC 61850, DNP3 and OPC UA.
• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background:

• Bachelor of Engineering (B.E/B Tech) in Computer Science/ Electrical Engineering/ Electronics and Communications engineering.
• Should have more than 8 years of experience in Software Development
• Should have good knowledge of TCP/IP stack and Socket Programming in Windows or Linux 
• Background in SCADA & Industrial communications protocols like ICCP, IEC 61850, DNP3 and OPC UA. Knowledge of SISCO MMS stack is also preferrable.
• Additional C++ knowledge and Linux experience.
• Technical knowledge of cloud-based systems (infrastructure, platform types, and software as a service principles), Ability to take ownership and work independently
• Working knowledge with one or more of the following: JSON, JSON schema, XML / XSLT, LDAP, ActiveMQ/RabbitMQ Kafka and Configuration Management, Open API as well as Black Duck and Sonar Cloud.
• Should possess expert/strong coding skill in .NET technology stack: C#, WPF, WCF, Oracle and or PostgreSQL
• Should have knowledge of agile methodologies and have worked on Azure DevOps environment
• Team player and great attitude
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.