Principal Solutions Engineer - Energy Platforms (Onsite)

Apex Systems; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

ESPP (employee stock purchase) program

401K with company match

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Certifications & training programs

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Everforth Apex is hiring a Solutions Engineer Principal in Columbus, Ohio to provide hands-on support for a customer-facing energy trading platform and related data services. You will diagnose failures, develop fixes, and deploy changes across databases, integrations, and reports.

The role requires strong communication with end users and senior stakeholders in a production environment. The ideal candidate brings 8+ years in application development or production support, advanced SQL, C#, REST

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field is required.
• Eight or more years of relevant experience in application development, database development, integration, or production support.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical support for a customer-facing retail trading platform, data-intensive pricing solutions, and an enterprise energy-trading and risk-management platform.
• Diagnose and resolve application, database, interface, job, configuration, and data-processing failures, restoring service during production incidents.
• Develop, test, and deploy changes to stored procedures, databases, integrations, applications, reports, and automation.
• Improve application logging, monitoring, alerting, error handling, recoverability, and operational transparency.
• Trace data from source systems through databases, calculations, interfaces, and reports.
• Work directly with business subject-matter experts to reproduce issues, validate results, and understand operational impacts.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, support runbooks, recovery procedures, and troubleshooting guides.
• Cross-train with other application-support engineers to establish primary and backup coverage.
• Provide infrequent after-hours support for specific operational events.

Skills

Strong communication

Customer-service oriented

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Microsoft SQL Server/T-SQL

C#

REST APIs

IIS

Windows Server

FTP

Batch processing

Job scheduling

Source control

Structured testing

Release procedures

Oracle/SQL

Java

Job description

Everforth Apex is hiring a Solutions Engineer Principal in Columbus, Ohio to provide hands-on support for a customer-facing energy trading platform and related data services. You will diagnose failures, develop fixes, and deploy changes across databases, integrations, and reports.

The role requires strong communication with end users and senior stakeholders in a production environment. The ideal candidate brings 8+ years in application development or production support, advanced SQL, C#, REST