Hybrid IT Engineer & Project Leader – Utility Tech

SB&O Inc; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 15,000,000; Full time

Job summary

SB&O, Inc. is hiring across multiple tracks for IT solution engineering, IT project management, AMI operations, and utility telecom/OT work in the Oakland area. Hybrid work with at least one day onsite weekly is required, with occasional site visits and travel up to three hours each way.

Local candidates only; include city/state on resume. Tracks include design and delivery of IT platforms, managing multi-million dollar projects, smart metering operations, and OT network deployments within

Qualifications

• BA/BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or equivalent experience.
• Project management track: 5+ years managing one or more complex IT product/software development cycles or projects.
• PMI PMP certification for project management roles.
• Advanced understanding of project management principles and methodologies.
• Experience with IT professional service agreements and materials logistics.
• Ability to function and manage in a matrixed environment, with an understanding of IT roles, responsibilities, business strategy, and IT strategy.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and collaboration skills; strong negotiation, risk management, and financial acumen.
• Must be local to the San Francisco Bay, Sacramento, or Central Valley Areas and able to meet the onsite and travel expectations above.

Responsibilities

• Assist senior engineers in creating comprehensive technology platform solution designs that meet business requirements on IT projects.
• Apply knowledge of IT standards, service offerings, and operational options to help develop implementation approaches and evaluate technology alternatives.
• Help ensure the physical design and configuration of delivered solutions align directly with the approved logical design.
• Promote development and reuse of common solutions, components, and services.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and information engineers, architects, product specialists, and system design engineers to complete IT deliverables.
• Work with engineers, architects, and product specialists to confirm that products and components work together to meet objectives and performance goals defined in the requirements.
• Support buy vs. build decisions, business requirements impact analysis, refinement of early-phase project estimates that feed the business case, and implementation-level design.
• Provide solution engineering support through the plan, analyze, design, build, test, and deploy phases of IT projects.
• Manage one or more concurrent complex IT projects, typically ranging from $100,000 to $10,000,000; senior assignments may go to $15M–$20M.

Skills

IT engineering

Project management

Stakeholder communication

Education

BA/BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

PMI PMP certification (preferred)

Tools

HP PPM Center

MS Office

Job description

SB&O, Inc. is hiring across multiple tracks for IT solution engineering, IT project management, AMI operations, and utility telecom/OT work in the Oakland area. Hybrid work with at least one day onsite weekly is required, with occasional site visits and travel up to three hours each way.

Local candidates only; include city/state on resume. Tracks include design and delivery of IT platforms, managing multi-million dollar projects, smart metering operations, and OT network deployments within