Share Our Purpose. Be Yourself. Feel Valued. People are the heart of our business. As an American Water employee, you will be offered a competitive salary and health benefits package, along with opportunities to develop, grow, and evolve your career. Our benefits packages focus on key areas such as health & wellness, emotional & well-being, and savings for current & future goals. We are Beautifully Different. We strongly believe having diversity across our company makes us more successful and helps us provide essential services to our customers. We are stronger because we embrace different ideas, viewpoints, experiences, and backgrounds. American Water is the best choice for your next role! Click here for more information on our inclusion, diversity, and equity journey. * About American Water* American Water (NYSE: AWK) is the largest regulated water and wastewater utility company in the United States. With a history dating back to 1886, We Keep Life Flowing® by providing safe, clean, reliable and affordable drinking water and wastewater services to more than 14 million people across 14 regulated jurisdictions and 18 military installations. American Water’s 6,500 talented professionals leverage their significant expertise and the company’s national size and scale to achieve excellent outcomes for the benefit of customers, employees, investors and other stakeholders. As one of the fastest growing utilities in the U.S., American Water expects to invest $30 to $34 billion in infrastructure repairs and replacement, system resiliency and regulated acquisitions over the next 10 years. The company has a long-standing history of executing its core operations, aligned with sustainable best practices, through its commitments to safety, affordability, customer service, protecting the environment, an inclusive workforce and strengthening communities. American Water has been recognized on the 2023 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Indexfor the fifth consecutive year, ranked 18th on Barron’s 100 Most Sustainable U.S. Companies 2023 List, earned the U.S. Department of Homeland Security SAFETY Act designation and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s WaterSense® Excellence Award, among additional state, local and national recognitions. For more information, visit amwater.com and join American Water on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. _ Primary Role_ * Assists with technical aspects of line of business product solutions including custom code, third party applications, and integrations. * Evaluates technical alternatives and feasibility and produce functional/technical designs that offer the best solution to the problem. * Act as a technical lead during iterative development cycles reviewing teams’ work product for quality control and develop complex solutions across varied data sources to provide creative strategies to solve customer problems. * Identifies and implements solutions in conjunction with a development team and collaborates with teams to establish new product design objectives, including systems requirements and validation criteria. * Provides hands-on domain and technical guidance to developers. * Is expected to conceive and create mold breaking design solutions and to deliver brilliant work in a scrappy, fast paced, customer-oriented environment. * Knows the customer and their business. They know technology and how to enable it. * Connects technology with the user, bringing both together in unconventional, innovative ways. _ Key Accountabilities_ 40% Technology Expertise * Act as an expert in a particular field of knowledge [this may be a business/functional area and/or a particular technology] and provide detailed information and advice as necessary in that specialization in order to achieve business outcomes. * Develop and/or promote technical solutions which support the business requirements within their area of expertise. Be accountable for specific deliverables in relation to software or web development and/or support. * As needed, lead the technical activity within their area of specialization. 10% Team Development and Management * Assist in team development and mentoring and developing team members. * Promote empowerment of the team, ensure that each team member is fully engaged in the project and making a meaningful contribution, and encourage a sustainable pace with high levels of quality for the team. * Perform as a team of strategic, creative, and technical professionals who partner with our clients to solve business problems and meet meaningful business goals. 10% Product Owner Support * Support the Head of Technology Enablement/Customer Enablement in managing customer expectations for project deliverables, managing stakeholder communications, and helping to implement an effective system of project governance. * Engage closely with clients to understand what business objectives they want to accomplish through technology enablement and then work with the Customer Enablement team of developers and designers to bring those ideas to life. 40% Application and Web Development * Create technology solutions for business users by developing, implementing, and maintaining commercial off-the-shelf software solutions, internet/intranet applications, and custom developed systems. _ Skills_ * Strong proficiency with Java development. * Strong proficiency in software development methodologies and frameworks, such as - Inversion of control / dependency injection - Unit testing / test driven development - Object-relational mappers - Observer pattern / pub-sub - Message queuing * Strong proficiency with the Spring Tool Suite. * Strong familiarity with UI presentation frameworks, such as AngularJS or ReactJS. * Strong familiarity with standard development technologies, such as - Web protocols (HTTP/HTTPS) - SAML / OpenID Connect / Oauth - SSL / TLS - HTML, CSS / LESS, JavaScript * Strong familiarity with standard application hosting technologies (eg Apache Tomcat). * Strong familiarity with application build, stage, and deploy tools, such as TeamCity or Jenkins, Artifactory, etc. * Strong familiarity with application logging technologies, along with log / metric shipping, collection, and analytics technologies such as Elasticsearch, Splunk, etc. * Strong familiarity with application hosting using Docker and Kubernetes. * Strong familiarity with application / infrastructure debugging tools and techniques. * Strong familiarity with cloud hosting technologies and solutions, as well as cloud automation toolsets (eg, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodePipeline, etc). _ Knowledge_ Excellent knowledge of digital technologies and applicability for the water and wastewater industries focused primarily in one technology specialty area Expertise with a broad set of interdisciplinary technology specialties [e.g. data, mobility, GIS, collaboration, infrastructure] and/or deep knowledge of a specialty area. Demonstrated ability to apply technologies to solve practical problems in a high-tech development environment with multi- function teams for large, complex systems with minimal direction. _ Experience/Education_ * 7+ years of experience working in the technology field required. * Experience with the water utility industry is highly desired, but not required. * Bachelors’ degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Information Systems, or similar technology field [Equivalent work experience will be considered]. * Appropriate technical certification in key specialties are preferred. _ Work Environment_ * On and offsite where the office is located - Camden, NJ. _ Travel Requirements_ * As necessary, up to 50%. _ Other_ * Excellent decision-making ability, balancing what is right with what is realistic. * Flexibility to adjust to multiple demands, shifting priorities, ambiguity, and rapid change. * Demonstrated ability to lead through influence and to deliver results through others while overcoming obstacles to success. * Possesses a high energy level, sense of urgency, decisiveness, and an ability to work well under pressure. * Possesses a curiosity and a passion towards engaging the imagination of senior level executives in grasping and enabling the fundamentals of change. * Demonstrated ability to work and team with a multitude of different people from various lines of business as well as within Technology & Innovation. * Strong verbal and written communication skills for a wide variety of audiences including proven ability to deliver conference presentations. * Creative approach to problem-solving with the ability to focus on details while simultaneously maintaining the "big picture" view. _ Competencies_ Champions safety Customer obsessed Cultivates innovation Nimble learning Drives Results Collaborates * Join American Water...We Keep Life Flowing™ * American Water is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and prohibits employment discrimination for employees and applicants based on his or her age, race, color, pregnancy, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, citizenship, or because they are an individual with a disability, protected veteran or other status protected by federal, state, and local laws.