Development Lead, Energy Services Platform

Description

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

As a Development Lead, you'll play a key role in executing the strategy and delivery of our Energy Services platform specifically development, launch, and operational management. Working closely with product managers, designers, engineers and various business teams, you'll help shape and guide the development process by keeping things organized, clear, on track and communicated effectively. The platform development lead is responsible for overseeing the design, development, and evolution of core platforms while managing legacy systems.
This role combines technical expertise with leadership skills to ensure our platform is scalable, secure, and aligned with business goals. This position reports to the Head of Platform Business Team and Director of Product or other senior management personnel that the President of the Company may designate.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the end-to-end development of platform architecture, services, and integrations
• Manage and modernize legacy systems, ensuring stability while planning and executing migration strategies.
• Guide and mentor a team of developers, enforcing best practices in coding, testing, and deployment
• Oversee system interoperability, including APIs and integrations across legacy and new platforms
• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Oversee API frameworks and ensure interoperability across products and services
• Drive platform scalability, security, and performance improvements.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and recommend innovations to enhance the platform
• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies to enhance platform capabilities
• Document technical specifications, measure performance index by setting up the metrics

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Information systems, computer science, engineering or related fields.
• 7-10 years of work experience (or equivalent combination of education) with a proven track record in platform or software development with leadership responsibilities
• Strong expertise in backend frameworks, cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure), microservices, and APIs.
• Hands-on experience managing, integrating, and migrating legacy systems.
• Solid understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and agile methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ experience in the solar or clean energy industry
• 5+ years of product development/management experience, especially around customer /partner facing products under Salesforce / Microsoft environment
• Proficiency in development tools, GitHub/Gitlab/Jira/confluence/AWS/Azure/Docker/Kubernetes/Terraform/etc
• Modern backend languages and frameworks, Testing & QA, Database & tools
• Strong analytical skills (structured and data-driven approach)
• Experience working with global or cross-cultural teams
• Experience in ERP, CRM, Cloud or enterprise system building

Hanwha Q CELLS America Inc. (“HQCA”) is a Qcells company, one of the world’s largest manufacturers and providers of solar photovoltaic (PV) products and solutions. Headquartered in Irvine, California, HQCA has been rapidly expanding its business in North America through the expansion of products and solutions, including distributed energy solutions, direct-to-homeowner solar sales and financing, and EPC services. We provide an opportunity to be part of an exciting and growing world-class global business in an interesting and expanding industry of the future.

The salary range is required by the California Pay Transparency Act and may differ depending on the location of those candidates hired nationwide. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to, skill set, education, licenses and certifications, essential job duties and requirements, and the necessary experience relative to the job’s minimum qualifications.

• This target salary range is for CA positions only and should not be interpreted as an offer of compensation.

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