Sr. Systems Engineer 2 - DSeries Scheduling Platform

About the role

Exelon is helping build a more affordable, reliable energy future for the communities we serve. 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.

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.

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; or Washington, DC.

Responsibilities

• Independently coordinate and lead discussions with business partners and vendors to gather information; consult 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 (30%).
• Write and disseminate system specifications, logical & physical architecture diagrams, and implementation plans; deliver practical, efficient, and cost‑effective solutions that satisfy business needs, including hands‑on configuration, troubleshooting, optimization, and supporting metrics (30%).
• Work closely with others to develop future plans, resource requirements, migration strategies, and project schedules; create and deliver presentations to Engineering, Architecture Review Boards, and business partners; possess a deep understanding of current scheduling technologies and service offerings within the industry; provide coaching and oversight for less experienced engineers (25%).
• Design, support, and maintain scheduling system integration with other platforms specific to customer needs; 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, captured following set process, and actioned appropriately; responsible for providing supporting data to leadership and peers (15%).
• Maintain knowledge of and ensure compliance with preferred technologies, methodologies, standards, and policies; maintain technical knowledge and business acumen within own discipline; apply advanced debugging and problem‑solving skills; lead peer code reviews (10%).
• Design, implement, support, and document infrastructure systems; maintain deep knowledge of technology and its application across business areas or for customers.
• Lead in technological innovation to drive new business opportunities and solve complex business problems, inclusive of partner, vendor, and other IT professionals.
• Conduct work assignments of higher complexity under occasional supervision with latitude for independent judgment.
• Create and contribute to a development‑centric work environment where employees are challenged, coached, and engaged; lead and supervise interns and apprentices; serve as peer coach for system engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Networking, or related field.
• 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 of senior leaders).
• Demonstrates ability to help team members make informed decisions in alignment with 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.