IT Solutions Engineer I

Spectraforce Technologies; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectraforce Technologies in Oakland, CA is seeking an IT Solution Engineer for a 9+ month contract in a hybrid onsite/remote setup.

You will assist engineers in designing technology platform solutions, translate business requirements into implementation approaches, and collaborate across domains to ensure components integrate cohesively.

Local candidates only; associates degree required and bachelors preferred. PMP certification is a plus.

Qualifications

• Associates degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business or related field or equivalent experience.
• Bachelors degree is preferred.
• PMP certification or related certification is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Assist Engineers in designing technology platform solutions that meet business requirements.
• Apply IT standards and service offerings to develop implementation approaches.
• Ensure delivered solutions align with logical design and integrate components.

Skills

Solution design

Cross-team collaboration

IT standards knowledge

Process improvement familiarity

Education

Associates degree in CS/Engineering/Business

Bachelors degree

Tools

PMP certification

Job description

IT Solution Engineer

Oakland, CA-Hybrid (1 day in a week onsite)

9 months+ Contract

*******Local candidates only******

Travel: would be within one business day and can be up to 3 hours each way

Onsite on an as needed basis. Looking for local candidates, please be sure to include your candidate's location at the top of the resume

Job Responsibilities:

• Assists other Engineers in creating comprehensive technology platform solution designs that meet business solution requirements on IT projects.
• Applies knowledge of IT standards, service offerings and operational options to assist in developing an implementation approach of technology solution alternatives.
• Assist in ensuring that the physical design and configuration of the delivered solutions are in direct alignment with the logical design.
• Assists in promoting the development and reuse of common solutions, components and services.
• Collaborate with other domain specific (application, infrastructure, or information) Engineers, Architects, Product Specialists, System Design Engineers and technologists to complete IT deliverables.
• Work with other engineers, architects and product specialists to ensure that the products and components work together to meet the objectives and performance goals as defined in the requirements.
• Assists 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.
• Provides support function for Solution Engineering design decisions during plan, analyze, design, build, test, and deploy phases of IT projects

Education Minimum: Associates degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business or related degree or equivalent experience

Education Desired: Bachelors degree

License/Certification Desired: Project Management Professional (PMP) certification; Other job related certification

Experience Desired:

• IT engineering design and/or technical project implementation experience Project Management IT experience

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and (Technical) Competencies:

• Ability to quickly learn and understand a core business area of a utility, of 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 (i.e., Six Sigma) used within a technology supported business process implementation.