Sr. Systems Engineer 2 - DSeries Scheduling Platform

Pepco; United States; Remote; USD 118,000 - 162,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Life and disability insurance

Generous paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program

Wellbeing programs

Referral bonus program

Job summary

The IT Sr Systems Engineer II - Lead Systems Administrator at Exelon is responsible for the administration, security, optimization, and strategic advancement of the enterprise scheduling platform (Dseries). This role provides technical leadership for job scheduling, workload automation, and batch processing across enterprise apps, cloud platforms, databases, and infrastructure services.

Position may require extended hours, including 24x7 coverage during storms or energy emergencies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Networking with 4–7 years IT infrastructure experience.
• Experience with system administration.
• Ability to document processes and handoffs.
• Experience with Dseries scheduling platform.
• Strong business acumen in Dseries context.
• Problem solving and communication to senior leaders.
• Ability to influence across the organization.
• Understanding of project management principles.
• Ability to analyze financial impact and cost optimization.
• Advanced debugging and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead discussions with partners and vendors to gather requirements.
• Develop future plans, migration strategies, and project schedules.
• Design, support, and maintain integration with platforms for customers.
• Identify and manage risks and issues with data for leadership.
• Maintain compliance with technologies, standards and policies.

Skills

IT infra design

System administration

Dseries scheduling

Cloud computing

Scripting & automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Networking

Tools

Dseries scheduling platform

PowerShell

Ansible

Job description

Who We Are

Exelon is helping build a more affordable, reliable energy future for the communities we serve. We're looking for people who are ready to make a difference and work together to deliver the energy our customers count on every day.

As a Fortune 200 company and one of the nation's largest utility companies, we have more than 20,000 colleagues who serve nearly 11 million customers through six fully regulated utilities - Atlantic City Electric (ACE), Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE), Commonwealth Edison (ComEd), Delmarva Power & Light (DPL), PECO Energy Company (PECO), and Potomac Electric Power Company (Pepco).

Exelon is built by people who put safety first, work together to solve problems and show up every day for our customers and communities. We believe strong teams are built on trust, respect and a shared commitment to high-performance culture. And our commitment to employees includes creating an environment where people can grow, develop new skills and build thriving careers.

We know this work isn't easy. That's why we offer competitive compensation, incentives, excellent benefits and the opportunity to build a rewarding career. No matter your role, you will be part of a team that is committed to making a difference, improving how we work and delivering for the people who depend on us.

Are you on for the challenge?

Primary Purpose

The IT Sr Systems Engineer II - Lead Systems Administrator is responsible for the administration, support, security, optimization, and strategic advancement of the enterprise scheduling platform environment (Dseries). This role provides technical leadership for job scheduling, workload automation, batch processing, and critical business process orchestration across enterprise applications, cloud platforms, databases, and infrastructure services.

Position may be required to work extended hours, including 24 x 7 coverage during storms or other energy delivery emergencies.

**This is a multiple‑location posting. The selected candidate may be based out of our Exelon Corporate Office locations in Baltimore, MD, Philadelphia, PA, Chicago, IL, Oakbrook Terrace, IL, Washington, DC**

Primary Duties

• Independently coordinates and leads discussions with business partners and vendors to gather information. Consults with leadership, architecture, project teams and end users to identify scheduling system requirements and perform feasibility analysis on potential changes related to existing and future security and technical architectures. Writes and disseminates system specifications, logical & physical architecture diagrams, and implementation plans. Delivers practical, efficient, and cost -effective solutions that satisfy business needs, including hands‑on configuration, troubleshooting and optimization and supporting metrics for the same. (30%)
• Work closely with others to develop future plans, resource requirements, migration strategies, and project schedules. Creates and delivers presentations to Engineering , Architecture Review Boards, and business partners. Possesses a deep understanding of current scheduling technologies and service offerings within the industry. Provides coaching and oversite for less experienced engineers (25%)
• Design, support, and maintain scheduling system integration with other platforms, specific to the needs of the customers. Maintain relevancy and knowledge in current and evolving emerging IT systems technologies. Provide emerging technology recommendations to solve business problems. (20%)
• Ensure all risks and issues are identified and are captured following set process and are actioned appropriately. Responsible for providing supporting data to leadership and peers. (15%)
• Maintains knowledge of and ensures others are compliant with preferred technologies, methodologies, standards and policies. Maintain technical knowledge and business acumen within own discipline or function. Advanced debugging and problem‑solvinq skills; lead peer code reviews. (10%)

Job Scope

Designing, implementing, supporting, and documenting infrastructure systems Maintains deep knowledge of technology and its application across our business areas or for our customers Leads in technological innovation to drive new business opportunities and solve complex business problems, inclusive of partner, vendor and other IT professionals. Requires advanced skill set and proficiency in technical discipline. Conducts work assignments of higher complexity, under occasional supervision with latitude for independent judgment Creates and contributes to a development‑centric work environment where employees are challenged, coached and engaged. Will lead and supervise interns and apprentices and will serve as peer coach for system engineers.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Networking 4 - 7 years' experience in IT infrastructure design, application design, cloud computing, disaster/recovery, or 6-9 years of relevant experience
• Experience with system administration
• Demonstrated ability to design and document processes & procedures Has led operational hand offs
• Maintained experience with Dseries scheduling platform.
• Demonstrated competence with business acumen within Dseries scheduling platform.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems.Expert in articulating sensitive and mission‑critical information to a wide variety of target audiences (written and verbal, inclusive to senior leaders)
• Demonstrates ability to help team members make informed decisions in alignment with the sub‑department strategic plans
• Proactively comprehends what a business partner is requesting and develops a strategy to address
• Demonstrates ability to influence up, down, and across the organization.
• Drives innovative process and improvements by leveraging alternative perspectives and emerging technologies to deliver creative solutions across many teams.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver work aligning to project management principles & framework.
• Demonstrated ability to provide financial impact analysis, inclusive of assessing cost optimization opportunities.
• Troubleshooting & Monitoring: Demonstration of advanced capabilities to apply monitoring tools. Independently makes informed decisions on monitoring settings such as sample size, level of criticality, and self‑healing opportunities.
• Cloud Technologies: Develops white papers, conducting presentations as needed Security Basics: Applies solutions against current security requirements and future industry trends .
• Scripting & Automation: Proficient in PowerShell, Ansible, or other appropriate scripting tool. Able to independently create, modify, and troubleshoot scripts for automation, reporting, and monitoring tasks.

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of programming languages, and an ability to solve engineering problems of increasing difficulty.
• Shows initiative beyond pure implementation. Experience building highly scalable applications
• Demonstrated ability to apply a broader perspective, may contribute to the development of research articles or reference reports that inform the decision‑making process.
• Administer and support enterprise scheduling and workload automation platforms, particularly Dseries.
• Configure, maintain, and optimize scheduling agents, controllers, calendars, workflows, and automation components.
• Monitor all scheduling environments to ensure high availability, reliability, and performance.
• Assist and test system upgrades, patching, maintenance, and platform lifecycle management.
• Assist with troubleshooting of scheduling failures, performance issues, and workflow bottlenecks.

Benefits

• Annual salary will vary based on a candidate’s skills, qualifications, experience, and other factors: $117,600.00/Yr. – $161,700.00/Yr.
• Annual Bonus for eligible positions: 15%
• 401(k) match and annual company contribution
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Life and disability insurance
• Generous paid time off options, including vacation, sick time, floating and fixed holidays, maternity leave and bonding/primary caregiver leave or parental leave
• Employee Assistance Program and resources for mental and emotional support
• Wellbeing programs such as tuition reimbursement, adoption and surrogacy assistance and fitness reimbursement
• Referral bonus program
• And much more